Options

Simple Fields

Allows to create easily settings pages and meta fields for posts, taxonomy terms, comments and users. Gutenberg sidebars are supported. Super-fast and minimalist plugin.

Settings Pages in WooCommerce

Just a couple days ago I was doing some updates for one of my plugins and I decided to move plugin settings from a regular WordPress options pages to WooCommerce > Settings.

Because why overload WordPress admin menu with links when the plugin is intented to sync product inventory between stores and it is crystal clear that its settings should be in WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Inventory tab. Don’t you think so?

Network Options Pages

This tutorial is how to add settings pages to Network Admin with WordPress Multisite installed. I have a couple amazing tutorial on my blog where you can learn how to create options pages with Settings API or how to add site-specific settings in Network Admin > All Sites.

That’s how the settings page we are going to create here looks like:

network options page

Create Custom Options Pages

WordPress custom settings pages are quite useful when you are developing a plugin or a theme. You will definitely need some place in admin area where users can configure your plugin and Settings API is perfect for that.

And yes, we are going to use Settings API which will help us creating our options pages. It was added in WordPress 2.7 only. I really doubt that you are using a WordPress version prior 2.7, but anyway I think I have to mention that.

Below is the screenshot of a settings page we are going to create in this tutorial. I decided to make it simple, so we have multiple fields – a text field and a checkbox.

how to create a WordPress option page with field validation