There’s always a character limit, but option_value is LONGTEXT so unless you anticipate more than 4GB of data you should be fine. I’d suggest json is unnecessary – you can save a PHP array as the value and it will be serialized/deserialized automatically. That said, as Tom points out, this is really micro-optimising, and won’t … Read more
So because I couldn’t find an out of the box way, I created this. Don’t forget to enqueue the jquery-ui-tabs script – /** Replace the call to ‘do_settings_sections()’ with a call to this function */ function do_settings_sections_tabs($page){ global $wp_settings_sections, $wp_settings_fields; if(!isset($wp_settings_sections[$page])) : return; endif; echo ‘<div id=”abb-tabs”>’; echo ‘<ul>’; foreach((array)$wp_settings_sections[$page] as $section) : if(!isset($section[‘title’])) continue; … Read more
Settings API store serialized data in the database (The Right Way)
Using multiple settings_fields() on 1 settings page
Submit options page input values with decimals
First of all you need function to calculate lighter and darker colors. Once you have values in hex form a fast way is: convert hex to rgb conver rgb to hsl lighter and darker hsl (that is easy) revert lighter and darker colors from to hsl to hex (hsl > rgb > hex) Settings API … Read more
Found it; One needs to use a so-called ‘whitelisted’ group: register_setting(“reading”, “honeycomb-reading-share”); Existing option-pages seem to all have a group-name that corrsponds to their page-name.
For anyone else that may not have read the above comments and are having a possibly similar issue, @epilektric has answered the question stating that the = sign was missing after the value attribute under the field_1 and field_2 functions.
Use the $wp_settings_sections global. It returns an array of settings sections.
The Settings API generally expects data in the key => value form. I’m sure it is possible to save array data using the Settings API, but it somewhat circumvents the purpose of the API. If I’m understanding your question correctly, you’re trying to take a Plugin Option, and use the value of that option to … Read more