Theme option: Display text?

[yellowled]

I'm working on a template which might require some user instructions. I have done this before, shipping a REAME file with the template, but you can never be sure people actually read it. So I was wondering if it's possible to display some instructional text in the theme options and how to do that.

YL

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

You can use your own configuratm item for that. instead of giving the user a text input field, you can use the "custom" item type. The content itself is then emitted using the 'custom' item variable:

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$template_config = array(
  array(
        'var'           => 'infoxxx',
        'name'          => 'infoxxx,
        'type'          => 'custom',
        'custom'       => 'Read this! First! Now!'
  )
);

Regards,
Garvin

[yellowled]

You can use your own configuratm item for that. instead of giving the user a text input field, you can use the "custom" item type.

Awesome, thanks. I'll definitely use that in templates to come, and I think other template designers should do that, too, if the template requires it.

YL

[judebert]

You should also be able to use type content:

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$template_config = array(
  array(
        'var'           => 'infoxxx',
        'name'          => 'infoxxx,
        'type'          => 'content',
        'custom'       => '<b>Read this! First! Now!</b>'
  )
); 

I don't know what the difference might be, but I always use content in my plugins.