I am creating a WordPress admin panel for a premium theme and I don't want to use a plugin. Searched Google and StackOverflow a lot but everywhere it refers to the Settings API but checking the date of the articles or question/answer posted date, majority shows 2012 or early. I checked some premium themes of themeforest and none of them were using any of the Settings API functions such as add_settings_section, register_setting, add_settings_field. Each theme is using a different and specific way to save admin panel options, if I follow that then that will be a copy of that theme.
Is Settings API the right solution for this requirement?
I'd suggest using the Customizer - https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/customize-api/
This will work fine if you're only talking about a few settings - you can add new panels, inputs etc. For example on a theme I built, I added a 'contact' panel so the users can add their contact details.
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I have done a tutorial about writing WordPress plugins but this tutorial was bad. The teacher said about creating widgets and shortcodes (adding an option to that) but a lot of plugins can display it's options in other places. For example - the Yoast plugin can display it's an option on the page to create a new page. I don't know even how to find information about that. Could you give me a link or said me how can I find that?
How to add custom WordPress theme in WordPress theme using PHP, CSS, HTML...I tried
C:\Users\megha\Downloads\wordpress-5.8.zip\wordpress\wp-content\themes in this way to show theme but nothing happen ..then how to insert theme in wordpress
[Installing WordPress themes and plugins][1] is very simple. All you have to do is go to the WordPress dashboard, there you will have the menu on the left. Select plugins/themes.
You can also search the directory, and apply filters to find a theme or plugin that best suits your needs. Click on install, then click activate, and voila! It’s done, my friend. You have successfully manually installed a theme/plugin on your website!
To use full-site editing, hover your cursor on Appearance, and in the menu select Editor. Voila! You can now edit your homepage, and create a design you want. For those looking forward to design ideas or ready-made blocks, check out WordPress Patterns.
Most importantly, there is no restriction on the number of plugins you can use (unless you have managed hosting, as most do not allow some plugins, especially those that clash with their platform’s codes. Read more here: managed vs self-hosting).
So, you can pick any number of plugins you want, and don’t worry about how to customize WordPress plugins or how to update WordPress plugins. It’s very simple and happens at the click of a button. We’ll be coming up with more guides, clearing any remaining whiff of doubt you might have.
I am a creating a website on WordPress that uses a plunging called H5P which allows the creation of interactive content. as in the picture below. However the creation of the content is currently only possible from the dashboard.
I would like to allow my website guests to use the plugin to create content but from a separate page and without letting them access or use the WordPress dashboard. In other words, I just want to show the users the section in green in the picture.
Similarly, Is there any way to allow the guests to create posts also without going from the dashboard? such as another page that the same fields to create a post but to be visited without going through WordPress dashboard?
Thanks a lot for any help you may provide
For creating post/custom post content from the front-end, one solution is to use the fol owing popular plugin and extensions,
Contact Form 7 plugin - a popular and simple approach to form designs in WordPress.
Smart Grid-layout Design for CF7 extension plugin - this allows you to design and build multi-column and multi-row grid layout forms to make your form more compact.
To see how this plugin can help you design better forms, see this tutorial on how to design a 2-column form layout.
This plugin extension was designed to fix the flaws of the CF7 plugin as well as improve its functionality, and as a result does a great many things. Once you install the plugin it adds a a tutorial section in admin dashbaord with a list of all the online tutorials available to learn how to use it.
Post My CF7 Form extension - allows you to map a CF7 form to a post or a custom post in the back-end.
To map a form to an existing post, please follow this online tutorial.
To map a form to a custom post type, please follow this tutorial.
The plugin also allows you to map dropdown lists to taxonomies, files to post thumbnails, and many more options. To understand how to do this, see this playlist of tutorials.
I am trying to implement a simple one page -no blog- WordPress theme using a bootstrap template. I have an aside with three social links -facebook, twitter, Instagram- in the header.
I want to be able to make it so not only are these able to put truned on or off in by the user through the wp admin dashboard, but also the links to those sites able to be put in through said dashboard.
I am using udnerscores as a starter theme. How do I go about doing what I am looking to do?
This can be achieved using the Customizer API. That would be my recommendation. There is a lot of really good documentation on how to use that here. It also includes a whole bunch of sample code. Give that a look.
I am developing a bespoke Wordpress theme including a custom admin section inside the Wordpress CMS.
I have been looking for inspiration from exisiting admin panels and have found exactly what I am looking for (but not for jobs) http://demo.wpjobboard.net/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpjb/job
I have managed to create my own panel section and sub menu.
My Site Options
News
Events
When the user selects News or Events I need Wordpress to list the news and events to be shown on the site. I am confused as to where the news and events data would be stored though.
In a custom php cms I would have events/news tables and list the data out for these in a html table. For Wordpress would it be in the Wordpress posts table or in a custom table?
Thank you.
I'm assuming what you want is a section with optional theme settings. It's a bit of work to explain how to do it here, but I found this tutorial which is extremely helpful.