How to create flexible WordPress Parent Themes

How to create flexible WordPress Parent Themes

Very soon, child themes will be accepted in the WordPress Theme Directory. Child themes are themes that inherit the functionality of other themes and allow modifications and adding new functionality. The theme from which the child theme inherits the functionality is called a “Parent Theme”. The intention with child themes was to provide an easy way to customize themes …

Separate multiple Theme Options Pages using Tabs

Separate multiple Theme Options Pages using Tabs

Recently it became a requirement that themes submitted to the WordPress Directory have its options pages residing under the Appearance menu. This is intended to create a more consistent user interface and to standardize the locations where theme components can be found in the admin backend. Now all the theme’s features can be in the same place …

How to create a WordPress Theme Options Page

How to create a WordPress Theme Options Page

Having an options page for your WordPress theme is a great way to increase the theme’s extensibility, usability and ease of operation. At first glance, implementing such a page may seem a hard task and not so long ago it was; however, now with the new WordPress Settings API introduced in version 2.7, creating an options page has become a simple task …