Wordpress Theme Tutorial: Part 8b - Adding a Theme Options Page

In this video, we discuss how to create a theme options page in the admin menu using your theme's functions.php file, and discuss how Wordpress "options" work. This can let you make a good user interface should you distribute your theme to others.

Files Used in Lesson:
http://andrewanimation.biz/tutorial/tutorial-theme-part8.zip

Category:

Education

Tags:

• wordpress
• blog
• template
• theme
• skin
• option
• admin
• user
• interface

[sqk444]

Nice work .... Great explanation.

[ankur0101]

Yupp, already entered options are wiping out.

[dcairbre]

sorry that should be if(isset...

[dcairbre]

One thing to keep in mind, before the $new_values part, I think there should be an f(isset($_POST['footer-text']) {  $new_values = array( 'blah blah blah, );.... }

because before I put that in, whenever I loded the page, it just wiped the options. I'm not sure if this is specific to my theme page or maybe it's always like that. Just something to note ;)

[fiskerballet]

Saw it all in one evening! You should add the posibility of donating, I would be happy to :)

[mawdizzle22]

Thank you very much Andrew. I appreciate you putting this out there. I will try to pay it forward and back if I can.

[RedSlug360]

Very good series.  I watched them all over a few days and learnt a lot!

[alconwaydotcom]

Cheers mate, this series has been most helpful... probably won't be the last time I watch either :)

[islam4hak]

Great Work man ,, thank you

[justblaze594]

great tutorial! ive been looking for a good video on wordpress for a while. you really deserve to get paid for this

i have a question/request...

so i want to add an extremely simple jquery slideshow on the front index page. how would i create and admin upload section for images in that slideshow.

and if i didnt use a slideshow.. how would i create an upload image section in admin area just to have a seperate heading image for each page.

thanks for all your videos!....