This is a very good question. The answer to the referenced post requires a change to the WP options. They are stored in the database in the wp_options table (assuming wp_ is your prefix). There are a few ways to change these in this case: Direct DB access: if you’re comfortable modifying the WP DB … Read more
Why isn’t the following option getting saved? Because the database option name (the second parameter for register_setting()) is aa_myoption, hence the input name has to be aa_myoption or in the array notation like aa_myoption[my_field]: <input name=”aa_myoption”> <!– like this –> <input name=”aa_myoption[my_field]”> <!– or this –> Secondly, when you retrieve the option value and when … Read more
Is there a better, more efficient way – considered a “best practice” – to approach this? Yes! Storing structured data in a single option is bad practice. You should use the option name to seperate your data. Otherwise by using arrays and objects, WordPress cannot store those in the database, so it has to turn … Read more
Got a partial solution, but requires VPS to run it as shared hosting has a restriction on what you can do with a cursor. Anyway, DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS `update_all_options`; DELIMITER // CREATE PROCEDURE update_all_options( IN db varchar(255), IN theoption varchar(255), IN set_val VARCHAR(255) ) BEGIN DECLARE table_val VARCHAR(255); — Declare variables used just for … Read more
There are indeed some frameworks WP Alchemy Rilwis Meta Box Class etc… google will lead your way, as well as the in site search for both packages.
It’s not really a WP-specific solution, but if you set up a Gmail address (and likely others), you could create a filter to automatically forward notifications generated by WordPress to other admins. Short of WordPress adding multi-email notifications, that might be a workaround to temporarily solve the problem.
There is a plugin called – Clean Options which promises to remove all unused entries from wp_options table. NOTE – that plugin hasn’t been updated for 2 years, you must do backup before using it. To remove all data manually You have to manually look into database for unused tables or rows and use the … Read more
Don’t use the built-in color picker. It is hard to use already and it will be replaced in 3.5 anyway. You will need a custom one to get transparency.
I figured out that I needed to recreate the user account and its permissions. I made a YT tut on it because of the lack of support everywhere on this type of problem. youtube.com/webenvelopment Hope this helps someone else.
The limit is probably not WordPress specific, but caused by PHP. max_input_vars might be set to 1000, so not all fields might reach WordPress. You can store 4,294,967,295 or 4GB (232 – 1) characters in one option, so I don’t think this is your problem. If it is, you should consider a separate table.