I would recommend you the Options Framework.
If you still do want to do it by yourself, here is a long description.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Options_Pages
On this Wordpress-Codex Page is everything you need and you should try it - if you still have any questions, just ask again.
But just as a summary, these are the steps you have to do:
- Create/register Options Page, like
add_options_page()
or add_menu_page()
…
- register Settings (add fields you need)
- Sanitize and save the user-inputs
On the other part you get your saved option (check if you have already saved it …) simply with:
<?php echo get_option( $option, $default ); ?>
e.g.
<?php echo get_option( 'blogname' ); ?>
<?php echo get_option( 'myOption' ); ?>
It's actually not that hard .. but it's much easier with the Options-Framework.
http://wptheming.com/options-framework-theme/
Here is the ready-to-go-but-understand-it-before-you-use-it
-code as in the Codex:
<?php
class MySettingsPage
{
/**
* Holds the values to be used in the fields callbacks
*/
private $options;
/**
* Start up
*/
public function __construct()
{
add_action( 'admin_menu', array( $this, 'add_plugin_page' ) );
add_action( 'admin_init', array( $this, 'page_init' ) );
}
/**
* Add options page
*/
public function add_plugin_page()
{
// This page will be under "Settings"
add_options_page(
'Settings Admin',
'My Settings',
'manage_options',
'my-setting-admin',
array( $this, 'create_admin_page' )
);
}
/**
* Options page callback
*/
public function create_admin_page()
{
// Set class property
$this->options = get_option( 'my_option_name' );
?>
<div class="wrap">
<h2>My Settings</h2>
<form method="post" action="options.php">
<?php
// This prints out all hidden setting fields
settings_fields( 'my_option_group' );
do_settings_sections( 'my-setting-admin' );
submit_button();
?>
</form>
</div>
<?php
}
/**
* Register and add settings
*/
public function page_init()
{
register_setting(
'my_option_group', // Option group
'my_option_name', // Option name
array( $this, 'sanitize' ) // Sanitize
);
add_settings_section(
'setting_section_id', // ID
'My Custom Settings', // Title
array( $this, 'print_section_info' ), // Callback
'my-setting-admin' // Page
);
add_settings_field(
'id_number', // ID
'ID Number', // Title
array( $this, 'id_number_callback' ), // Callback
'my-setting-admin', // Page
'setting_section_id' // Section
);
add_settings_field(
'title',
'Title',
array( $this, 'title_callback' ),
'my-setting-admin',
'setting_section_id'
);
}
/**
* Sanitize each setting field as needed
*
* @param array $input Contains all settings fields as array keys
*/
public function sanitize( $input )
{
$new_input = array();
if( isset( $input['id_number'] ) )
$new_input['id_number'] = absint( $input['id_number'] );
if( isset( $input['title'] ) )
$new_input['title'] = sanitize_text_field( $input['title'] );
return $new_input;
}
/**
* Print the Section text
*/
public function print_section_info()
{
print 'Enter your settings below:';
}
/**
* Get the settings option array and print one of its values
*/
public function id_number_callback()
{
printf(
'<input type="text" id="id_number" name="my_option_name[id_number]" value="%s" />',
isset( $this->options['id_number'] ) ? esc_attr( $this->options['id_number']) : ''
);
}
/**
* Get the settings option array and print one of its values
*/
public function title_callback()
{
printf(
'<input type="text" id="title" name="my_option_name[title]" value="%s" />',
isset( $this->options['title'] ) ? esc_attr( $this->options['title']) : ''
);
}
}
if( is_admin() )
$my_settings_page = new MySettingsPage();
Have fun, and please understand what you do!