You should be posting your data (via <form action=”” …> to your theme options page, rather than to the wp-admin/options.php file. The latter is for the stuff under Settings. Also, I don’t mean to be tossing dirt at anyone in particular, but always take the tips that you read on the web with a grain …
There’s no need to be using _e() that’s for text that’s to be translated, you don’t translate CSS, it only comes in one language… With regard to your if/else’ing, try this.. <?php $options = get_option(‘mytheme_theme_options’); if( isset( $options[‘linkcolour’] ) && ( !empty( $options[‘linkcolour’] ) ) ) printf( “a, a:link {color: #%s;}”, $options[‘linkcolour’] ); ?> Here’s …
Your looking for custom meta fields, which you can style anyway you want using CSS. http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields You would either have to write your own functions to accomplish this or use one of the many custom fields plugins, I would recommend the WPAlchemy MetaBox.
Its built in that way so you can have themes only on specific blogs: Disable the theme under Super Admin -> Themes. Enable the theme for one site under Super Admin -> Edit the site you want. Look on the top right, there’s a list of disabled themes.
Option values are longtext. So you can store up to 4,294,967,295 or 4GB (232 – 1) bytes in an option value. I wouldn’t do that … but feel free to test the edge cases. 🙂
WordPress is built to import and export content. As such, there is no built-in way to import or export settings. Some theme and plugin authors, however, have built tools into their systems that import/export XML files that their systems can use store options. A great example is WordPress SEO by Yoast. Not only can you …
This depends on the theme in question, Some themes have a desktop and mobile versions built in. Some themes are made to fit the screen size (responsive). Some themes (for mobile) come as a plugin which activates it self when the user access the site from a mobile device. So In the either way its …
Not Recommended <?php if(theme_get_option(‘theme_style_options’) == ‘style1’): ?> <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”all” href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/55754/<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/style1.css” /> <?php elseif(theme_get_option(‘theme_style_options’) == ‘style2’): ?> <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”all” href=”<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/style2.css” /> <?php elseif(theme_get_option(‘theme_style_options’) == ‘style3’): ?> <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”all” href=”<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/style3.css” /> <?php endif;?> OR <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”all” href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/55754/<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/<?php …
You do not need to use check_admin_referer. If you are using the Settings API then WordPress handles nonce checking and saving data to the database. In terms of data validation, the only thing you need to provide is a validation callback. This callback receives all inputs with name specified in the second argument of register_setting …
Based on what you want, if it were me, I would enable featured images and excerpts on pages and then build a widget to feature a page. Then put a sidebar on your homepage and use those widgets to reorder and select which pages to show in which order. Then you’re managing all content related …
