If you are wondering how to edit wordpress by adding easy to manage options to your WordPress theme, but don’t know where to start, you are not alone.
Get How to Edit WordPress by adding a custom admin panel today!
Finding accurate tutorials with specific examples showing how to edit WordPress can waste a lot of time without turning up any good results.
It took me a few days of pouring over various existing themes and hunting around the internet to before I finally figured out how to customize wordpress for my own purposes.
If you would like a straight forward example of creating options for your own WordPress theme and building an admin panel so that you ( or others ) can easily change those options, then I have put together a short, concise manual that may be exactly what you are looking for.
Within this short 23 page manual you will find everything you need to:
- Create an admin panel for your WordPress theme
- Handle processing and display of your WordPress theme
- Use CSS and JavaScript within your admin panel
- Display status codes to users after processing requests
- Write a php class to handle all of your admin panels functions
- Read and write theme options to the builtin WordPress database
- Add functionality beyond updating options to your admin panel
With that being said, this manual does not cover more advanced topics such as:
- Storing theme options in custom database structures
- Creating admin panels with multiple tabs
- Creating top level WordPress admin menus
However, if you know how to create tabbed html pages and/or use php to access a database directly, then this manual should get you going on those things as well.
Once you have finished this guide, you will know how to edit wordpress by adding options to your favorite wordpress theme and building a panel to make updating your option settings a breeze.
Also included with this manual is a modified version of the default wordpress theme which contains an admin menu having seven options and illustrating how to use the following major form controls to manage your options:
- Text Boxes
- Text Areas
- Check Boxes
- Radio Buttons
- Select Menus
- Multi-select Menus
- Multi-option Check Boxes
The included ( very basic ) theme is not meant for normal use, but rather to clearly illustrated how to customize WordPress with extra options.
For only $7.00, this manual ( and the included code ) could save you hours or even days spent trying to track down solid information showing how to edit wordpress for your own purposes.










