WordPress Beginners Tutorial – Building a Theme Options Page
After many hours of searching the web, looking for some great WordPress admin theme options page tutorials, I have found a lot of different methods which became confusing and complicated. So after many hours of learning and understanding how to create an options page, and after including an options page for some of my clients, I decided to create the most BASIC tutorial on this issue. I will try to be as basic and simple as possible so beginners can follow along easily. This tutorial expects the user to have a beginner background in html, php and WordPress. This tutorial will show the very minimal things to code to get a working options page in your WordPress theme. After you start to understand and learn the basics, then you can branch out and find some more advanced tutorials. So here we go. To set this up, say we are creating a brand new WordPress theme called Blitz. If there already is a WordPress theme called Blitz, this tutorial has no relationship to that theme and is purely by coincidence. Of course with our new Blitz theme, we have a folder called Blitz under our themes folder and includes the very basic files that are required for a WordPress Theme. The files we have in our Blitz folder are index.php, header.php, footer.php, style.css and functions.php.
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