Creating Admin Settings Pages

Creating Admin Settings Pages — a practical guide to WordPress admin settings page with clear examples you can reuse in real projects.

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Short description

Render forms with Settings API fields, show success notices, and keep markup accessible.

Render callback sketch

function acme_render_settings() {
    if (! current_user_can('manage_options')) {
        return;
    }
    echo '<div class="wrap"><h1>Acme Settings</h1>';
    echo '<form method="post" action="options.php">';
    settings_fields('acme_settings_group');
    do_settings_sections('acme-settings');
    submit_button();
    echo '</form></div>';
}