Settings are really useful to provide an easy configuration of themes and plugins to our users within their administration panel. But the creation of options pages often ends up in a messy and repetitive use of the great WordPress Settings API.
Considering generic form fields, I wrote a class to clean and simplify the process. It’s something light that shall be used on the admin side.
https://github.com/WebMaestroFr/wm-settings
Example
// Define the page
$my_page = create_settings_page(
'my_page_id',
__( 'My Page' ),
array(
'title' => __( 'My Menu' )
),
array(
'my_setting_id' => array(
'title' => __( 'My Setting' ),
'description' => __( 'This is my section description.' ),
'fields' => array(
'my_option_name' => array(
'label' => __( 'My Option' ),
'description' => __( 'This is my field description.' )
)
)
)
)
);
// Access the values
$my_value = get_setting( 'my_setting_id', 'my_option_name' );Installation
- Download the last release
- Unzip it into your theme or plugin
require_once( 'path/to/wm-settings/wm-settings.php' );
Documentation
Create an Options Page and its Menu
$page = create_settings_page( $page_id, $page_title, $menu, $fields, $args );
- $page_id : (string) A unique identifier
- $page_title : (string) A title for your page
- $menu : (array) (Optional) An array of menu parameters. Set to false if you don’t want to display any page.
- ‘parent‘ : (string) The slug name for the parent menu. Use false to create a top level menu item.
Default : ‘themes.php’ - ‘title‘ : (string) The text to be used for the menu.
Default : value of $page_title - ‘capability‘ : (string) The capability required for this menu to be displayed to the user.
Default : ‘manage_options’ - ‘icon_url‘ : (string) (for top level menu item) The icon for this menu.
Default : ‘dashicons-admin-generic’ - ‘position‘ : (integer) (for top level menu item) The position in the menu order this menu should appear.
Default : bottom of menu structure
- ‘parent‘ : (string) The slug name for the parent menu. Use false to create a top level menu item.
- $fields : (array) (Optional) An array of sections and fields (See Settings Sections and Options Fields).
- $args : (array) (Optional) An array of miscellaneous arguments.
- ‘tabs‘ : (boolean) Whether to display the different sections as “tabs” or not. There must be several sections, and they must have a title.
Default : false - ‘submit‘ : (string) Text of the submit button.
Default : ‘Save Settings’ - ‘reset‘ : (string) Text of the reset button. Set to false to disable the reset button.
Default : ‘Reset Settings’ - ‘description‘ : (string) Page description.
- ‘updated‘ : (string) Message of the success notice. Set to false to disable the notice.
Default : ‘Settings saved.’
- ‘tabs‘ : (boolean) Whether to display the different sections as “tabs” or not. There must be several sections, and they must have a title.
// A top level page
$my_top_page = create_settings_page(
'my_top_level_page',
__( 'My Top Level Page' ),
array(
'parent' => false,
'title' => __( 'Top Level Menu' ),
'icon_url' => 'dashicons-admin-generic',
'position' => '63.3'
),
array(
'my_standard_section' => array(
'title' => __( 'Standard' ),
'description' => __( 'My section description.' ),
'fields' => array(
'my_input' => array(
'label' => __( 'Input example' )
),
'my_checkbox' => array(
'type' => 'checkbox',
'label' => __( 'Checkbox example' )
),
'my_textarea' => array(
'type' => 'textarea',
'label' => __( 'Textarea example' )
)
)
)
),
array(
'tabs' => true,
'submit' => __( 'My Submit' ),
'reset' => __( 'My reset' ),
'description' => __( 'My page description.' ),
'updated' => __( 'My success message !')
)
);
// And a sub-page
$my_sub_page = create_settings_page(
'my_sub_page',
__( 'My Sub Page' ),
array(
'parent' => 'my_top_level_page',
'title' => __( 'Sub Level Menu' )
)
);
Apply Settings Sections and Options Fields
$page->apply_settings( $settings );
Append sections and fields to a form, with an associative array where each setting is a section, and each option is a field. Each key of $settings defines a new setting id.
- ‘title‘ : (string) (Optional) Section title
- ‘description‘ : (string) (Optional) Section description
- ‘fields‘ : (array) (Optional) An array of options field declarations.
Each key of this new array defines a new option name.- ‘type‘ : (string) (Optional) Field type (checkbox, textarea, radio, select, multi, media, action, color or any valid HTML5 input type attribute).
Default : ‘text’ - ‘label‘ : (string) (Optional) Field label. Use false to hide the label column on this field.
- ‘description‘ : (string) (Optional) Field description.
- ‘default‘ : (string) (Optional) Option’s default value.
- ‘sanitize‘ : (callback) (Optional) A function to apply in place of the default sanitation of this field’s type. Receive the input value and the option name as parameters, and is expected to return a properly sanitised value.
- ‘attributes‘ : (array) (Optional) An
array( 'my_attribute' => 'my_value', ... )of HTML attributes. Useful for placeholder or pattern for instance. - ‘options‘ : (array) (Optional) Only for radio, select and multi field types, an
array( 'my_value' => __( 'My Label' ), ... )of predefined values. - ‘action‘ : (callback) (Optional) Only for action field type. Expect a response sent with either wp_send_json_success (success) or wp_send_json_error (failure), where $data (Optional) is either the message to display (string), or
array( 'reload' => true )if the page needs to reload on action’s success.
- ‘type‘ : (string) (Optional) Field type (checkbox, textarea, radio, select, multi, media, action, color or any valid HTML5 input type attribute).
$my_top_page->apply_settings( array(
'my_formatted_section' => array(
'title' => __( 'Formatted' ),
'fields' => array(
'my_email' => array(
'type' => 'email',
'label' => __( 'Email example' )
),
'my_url' => array(
'type' => 'url',
'label' => __( 'URL example' )
),
'my_number' => array(
'type' => 'number',
'label' => __( 'Number example' )
)
)
),
'my_multi_section' => array(
'title' => __( 'Multiple Options' ),
'fields' => array(
'my_radio' => array(
'type' => 'radio',
'label' => __( 'Radio example' ),
'options' => array(
'one' => __( 'First option'),
'two' => __( 'Second option'),
'three' => __( 'Third option')
)
),
'my_select' => array(
'type' => 'select',
'label' => __( 'Select example' ),
'options' => array(
'one' => __( 'First option'),
'two' => __( 'Second option'),
'three' => __( 'Third option')
)
),
'my_multi' => array(
'type' => 'multi',
'label' => __( '"Multi" example' ),
'options' => array(
'one' => __( 'First option'),
'two' => __( 'Second option'),
'three' => __( 'Third option')
)
)
)
)
) );
Apply settings anywhere, but in order to sanitise the data properly and to run the eventual callbacks, do it before ‘admin_init‘ is hooked.
$my_sub_page->apply_settings( array(
'my_advanced_section' => array(
'title' => __( 'Advanced' ),
'fields' => array(
'my_media' => array(
'type' => 'media',
'label' => __( 'Media Example' )
),
'my_color' => array(
'type' => 'color',
'label' => __( 'Color Example' )
),
'my_action' => array(
'type' => 'action',
'label' => __( 'Action Example' ),
'description' => __( 'Will call the PHP function "do_my_action" with AJAX.'),
'action' => 'do_my_action'
)
)
),
'my_custom_section' => array(
'title' => __( 'Custom' ),
'fields' => array(
'my_custom' => array(
'label' => false,
'description' => __( 'Will be sanitized through the PHP function "do_my_sanitation".'),
'default' => __( 'DEFAULT' ),
'attributes' => array(
'style' => 'font-family: "Comic Sans MS";',
'pattern' => '[A-Z]*'
),
'sanitize' => 'do_my_sanitation'
)
)
)
) );
function do_my_action() {
// If error
wp_send_json_error( __( 'Error !' ) );
// If success
wp_send_json_success( __( 'Success !' ) );
// If the page needs to reload
wp_send_json_success( array(
'reload' => true,
'message' => __( 'This message is only displayed if "reload" => false.' )
) );
}
function do_my_sanitation( $input, $name ) {
return sanitize_text_field( strtoupper( $input ) );
}
Get the values
Every setting is recorded as an array of options values. An easier way to get the data back, from anywhere in the code, is to use the function get_setting( $setting_id, $option_name );.
$my_attachment_id = get_setting( 'my_advanced_section', 'my_media' );
// ... is the same than :
$my_setting = get_option( 'my_advanced_section' );
$my_attachment_id = $my_setting['my_media'];Callback after settings are updated
The class hooks actions tagged ‘(page_id)_settings_updated‘ when settings are updated.
add_action( 'my_top_level_page_settings_updated', 'do_my_page_callback' );
function do_my_page_callback() {
// All settings of my_top_level_page have been updated.
}You can also use the ‘update_option_(setting_id)‘ WordPress action that will apply on every section update.
add_action( 'update_option_custom_fields_section', 'do_my_section_callback' );
function do_my_section_callback() {
$my_custom_options = get_setting( 'my_custom_section' );
// All options of custom_fields_section have been updated.
}Custom notices
You can display custom notices on the options pages.
$my_page->add_notice( __( 'My info message.') );
$my_page->add_notice( __( 'My updated message.'), 'updated' );
$my_page->add_notice( __( 'My warning message.'), 'warning' );
$my_page->add_notice( __( 'My error message.'), 'error' );Allowed types are info (default), updated, warning and error.
What do you think ?
I’ve been working on and using this with fun. Feel free to contact me for questions, feedback or suggestions. And you can find all of it, fork and contribute on GitHub. Peace out.