The latest project launch has been another quality WP site with a cool new feature I learned just for the occasion.
Theme Options
Yeah it’s been around for a bit, and it’s probably just a baby step to writing full blown plugins, but I’m excited.
Mainly it gives me a way to extend a theme outside of the page/post level of things and get specific functionality available in the admin. My first foray on my latest project (from the killer design by Winters Interactive) is on the new incarnation of the Ask a Bachelor site. In the header is a teaser for a question and answer article. Since this teaser didn’t necessarily coincide with a new blog post it needed to be somewhat removed from the post interface in the admin.
Enter theme options.
Theme options gave me a way to set up a new form that housed the data to be displayed in the header. It removed it from the post itself so gave the admin a little more control over what was displayed and how it was linked. Basically a form that had the three fields of the title, question, and link. All managed through the admin panel in WP. Pretty cool!
I found the handy how-to at NomeTech.com and can’t wait to work it in on more projects and expand the functionality a little bit as well.
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