How to get Options page be activated after theme activation?

Hi mates

How to activate my theme options settings page immediately after theme is activated?

I have seen few themes are working like this.

Can any one explain how to do it?

Hi mates

How to activate my theme options settings page immediately after theme is activated?

I have seen few themes are working like this.

Can any one explain how to do it?

Do you mean that you purchased a theme and don’t see the options settings? If so:

Have you activated the theme from the “Appearance > Themes” menu?

Then your theme options settings should automatically appear in the WP admin menu on the left of your screen. Sometimes the theme options will have its own standalone link, other times it will be under the “Appearance” dropdown.

If you mean you’re developing a theme and trying to create a theme options panel for it then I suggest reading this tutorial:

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wordpress/how-to-create-a-better-wordpress-options-panel/

Specifically the line of code where it adds the theme options to your WP admin menu is:

add_menu_page($themename, $themename, 'administrator', basename(__FILE__), 'mytheme_admin');  
# }  

You can read about adding administration menus in Wordpress here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus

I think he wants to redirect users to the theme options page when they activate his theme.

You can use the “after_setup_theme” hook introduced in WordPress 3.0 to execute some javascript to redirect the user to the theme settings page.

More info on the hook here:

http://adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks/hook/after_setup_theme?version=3.0&file=wp-settings.php

@tonyc,

The “switch_theme” hook would be better as it only runs when the user switch theme. “after_setup_theme” runs on every page (http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference )

Yep, you are 100% correct on that

Thank you friends

If it doesn’t work, try this

global $pagenow;

if ( is_admin() && 'themes.php' == $pagenow && isset( $_GET['activated'] ) ) {

}

http://foolswisdom.com/wp-activate-theme-actio/

Kayapati use the below code

Kayapati use the below code <?php if ($_GET['activated']){ wp_redirect(admin_url("admin.php?page=theme_options.php")); } ?>

Faheem

I get the bellow error when I use the above code in function.php

can you tell me where I need to place the above code?

The error I get:

“You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

I will drop you an email with the code direction on how to make this activated.