Using the options plugin framework allows us to create a theme options. For those developers wordpress templates, this framework helps us to make the initial setting themes without much coding.
Quoted from the website http://wptheming.com/options-framework-theme/, The Options Framework Theme has all the code included to build a out a full featured options panel. It’s a bundled version of the Options Framework Plugin for those folks who want to build the options directly into the theme (rather than relying on a plugin).
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How to build wordpress theme options for your own theme?
1. Download options framework from github.
2. Copy that framework folder at your theme directory.
3. Call options-framework.php class from functions.php (your theme functions) like example below
1 2 3 4 | if ( !function_exists( 'optionsframework_init' ) ) { define( 'OPTIONS_FRAMEWORK_DIRECTORY', get_template_directory_uri() . '/_/inc/' ); require_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/_/inc/options-framework.php'; } |
From the example, we must define options framework directory first and call options-framework.php with require_once
4. Create php file as options.php in the root folder of your theme (Your wordpress theme options will be stored here).
5. Write the following syntax in options.php
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 | <?php function optionsframework_option_name() { $themename = get_option( 'stylesheet' ); $themename = preg_replace("/\W/", "_", strtolower($themename) ); $optionsframework_settings = get_option( 'optionsframework' ); $optionsframework_settings['id'] = $themename; update_option( 'optionsframework', $optionsframework_settings ); } function optionsframework_options() { $options_categories = array(); $options_categories_obj = get_categories(); foreach ($options_categories_obj as $category) { $options_categories[$category->cat_ID] = $category->cat_name; } $options_tags = array(); $options_tags_obj = get_tags(); foreach ( $options_tags_obj as $tag ) { $options_tags[$tag->term_id] = $tag->name; } $options_pages = array(); $options_pages_obj = get_pages('sort_column=post_parent,menu_order'); $options_pages[''] = 'Select a page:'; foreach ($options_pages_obj as $page) { $options_pages[$page->ID] = $page->post_title; } $options = array(); // options will be written below $options[] = array( 'name' => __('License Keys', 'standar'), 'type' => 'heading'); $options[] = array( 'name' => __('License key', 'html5reset'), 'desc' => __('License key', 'html5reset'), 'id' => 'my_licensekey', 'std' => '', 'type' => 'password'); $options[] = array( 'name' => __('Secret key', 'html5reset'), 'desc' => __('Secret key', 'html5reset'), 'id' => 'my_secretkey', 'std' => '', 'type' => 'password'); $options[] = array( 'name' => __('Google Webmasters', 'html5reset'), 'desc' => __("Speaking of Google, don't forget to set your site up: <a href='http://google.com/webmasters' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://google.com/webmasters</a>", 'html5reset'), 'id' => 'meta_google', 'std' => '', 'type' => 'text'); // Ads $options[] = array( 'name' => __('Advertisements', 'html5reset'), 'type' => 'heading'); $options[] = array( 'name' => __('Header Ads', 'html5reset'), 'desc' => __('Header Ads (Use 728 x 90 Banner ads)', 'html5reset'), 'id' => 'my_ads1', 'type' => 'textarea'); $options[] = array( 'name' => __('Home Ads', 'html5reset'), 'desc' => __('Home Ads (Use 300 x 250 Banner ads)', 'html5reset'), 'id' => 'my_ads2', 'type' => 'upload'); return $options; } |
Explanation :
- To create options heading write the following syntax.
1 2 3 | $options[] = array( 'name' => __('Advertisements', 'html5reset'), 'type' => 'heading'); |
- To create options value write the following syntax.
1 2 3 4 5 6 | $options[] = array( 'name' => __('License key', 'html5reset'), 'desc' => __('License key', 'html5reset'), 'id' => 'sgt_licensekey', 'std' => '', 'type' => 'text'); |
- From the official website, These are the options currently available.- text
– textarea
– checkbox
– select
– radio
– upload (an image uploader)
– images (use images instead of radio buttons)
– background (a set of options to define a background)
– multicheck
– color (a jquery color picker)
– typography (a set of options to define typography)
– editor
I tried to add a password options and not be a problem.1'type' => 'password'
How to call theme options value that we have built
Use syntax below to call the wordpress options we have built
1 | of_get_option("value_id") |
In example :
If you have google site verification options, you can put the source code in header.php as below
1 | echo '<meta name="google-site-verification" content="'.of_get_option("meta_google").'" />'; ?> |
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