[wp-hackers] Registration of plugin options?

[Ronald Heft]

Ditto on the info. I added the register_setting option for all my plugins
when upgrading them to 2.7, but I'm still not sure what that function
affected.

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Ronald Heft, Jr.
Information Sciences and Technology
Pennsylvania State University

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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Ade Walker <photofantaisie at gmail.com>wrote:

> I can't answer your questions, but I'm looking for the same info too.
> Hopefully someone will point us in the right direction.
> Ade.
>
> 2009/3/16 Jennifer Hodgdon <yahgrp at poplarware.com>
>
> > There was some talk around WP 2.7 about registration of plugin options,
> as
> > I vaguely recall. Making it mandatory was dropped for 2.7.  What's
> happening
> > in that regard for 2.8? Do we all need to update our plugins, or will
> they
> > continue to work in 2.8?
> >
> > I see a brief mention of registering settings on
> > http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_API, but all it has is the two
> > registration functions listed -- no text, examples, mention of how/why to
> > use them, etc.
> >
> > There is also nothing in
> >
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin#Saving_Plugin_Data_to_the_Databaseorin
> > http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus currently about
> > registering options.
> >
> > So could someone who knows what is going on either (a) update those pages
> > in the Codex, or (b) explain here what is going on and ask for someone
> else
> > to update them? or (c) (preferable) both explain here what we need to do
> to
> > keep our plugins working and update the codex pages?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >   Jennifer
> >
> > --
> > Jennifer Hodgdon * Poplar ProductivityWare
> > www.poplarware.com
> > Drupal, WordPress, and custom Web programming
> >
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