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WordPress

Carmine Maraglio
Carmine Maraglio
29,762 Points
Posted by Carmine Maraglio
Carmine Maraglio
29,762 Points

WordPress Plugin - Multiple Functions

Hello,

I have developed a WordPress plugin that collects data from a form and saves that info to the wp_options database. I want to expand the plugin to have an additional form/function but am running into issues. If I add in the additional form/function both forms are displayed on the same page of the plugin options page and it breaks the function/ability to save form data. Any advice on how to fix this?

I have the plugin, in working form with the single function, hosted on github- https://github.com/cmaraglio/clubspeed_api

3 Answers

Carmine Maraglio
Carmine Maraglio
29,762 Points
Carmine Maraglio
Carmine Maraglio
29,762 Points

Found my answer. I needed to add_submenu_page and create a separate function with different variable names that stores a new row to the wp_options database. Once I did that, I was able to add a additional function and have everything work as expected. :)

Matthew Proudman
Matthew Proudman
11,879 Points
Matthew Proudman
Matthew Proudman
11,879 Points

have you tried to make a if statement which will course one or the other form to show?

Carmine Maraglio
Carmine Maraglio
29,762 Points
Carmine Maraglio
Carmine Maraglio
29,762 Points

I haven'; Ideally the plugin would allow a user to pull in multiple streams of information from the API it's querying and put that on different areas of the site using the widget or shortcode.

Matthew Proudman
Matthew Proudman
11,879 Points
Matthew Proudman
Matthew Proudman
11,879 Points

i see then i would need to setup the plugin so that you can from a list of Datapoint (api) which will call the class or function that controls the data (each API will need it's own function or class. it mite be one for the irc channels? (that is stuff they are good at) http://codex.wordpress.org/IRC

hope this helps