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Alessandro Muraro
Alessandro Muraro
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Posted by Alessandro Muraro
Alessandro Muraro
15,457 Points

Retrieve options set from a plugin

Hi there, I am creating my own simple plugin loosely following the Treehouse tuts. I need to print the options I saved in my plugin (as text).

I can retrieve the values saved in my plugin option like this:

<?php $options = get_option('wpglobalsettings'); ?> <?php echo $options['wpglobalsettings_image1']; ?>

but what i really want is to avoid calling the get_option on each page I need my plugin settings to be shown.

I tried to do this:

function wp_global_settings_frontend(){ $options = get_option( 'wpglobalsettings' ); }

add_action('wp_head', 'wp_global_settings_frontend');

but when I print to screen the $option array, it's empty. What am I doing wrong? Many thanks!

1 Answer

Mike Costa
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Mike Costa
Courses Plus Student 26,362 Points
Mike Costa
Mike Costa
Courses Plus Student 26,362 Points

I'm not too familiar with the wordpress plugins but maybe try:

function wp_global_settings_frontend(){ 
return get_option( 'wpglobalsettings' );
 }