[Sébastien Dumont]

I am close to finish building an extension plugin for MailPoet which allows the user to subscribe to a newsletter when they register on the forum.

My admin settings fields show in bbPress settings but when it comes to saving my field options I do not get back the value I either entered or selected. All values save with the number zero in the database.

This is the admin settings: https://github.com/seb86/MailPoet-bbPress-Add-on/blob/dev/includes/admin/mailpoet-bbpress-addon-admin-functions.php

Can I have some assistants to get my custom settings fully operational.

My plugin is available on GitHub as it is right now to show what I have done.

I hope someone can help me correct this problem please.

Any help is most appreciated.

Thank you.

https://github.com/seb86/MailPoet-bbPress-Add-on

[Robin W]

I’m a bit of a newbie to this area, having just created my first settings page, so of this is irrelevant, please ignore !

The following talks about needing to register

https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_API

eg “NOTE: You MUST register any options you use with add_settings_field() or they won’t be saved and updated automatically. ” – which seems to describe your problem

and

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_setting

That may not be necessary as you’re adding it as a filter??

anyway my code cribbed from elsewhere looked like

// register the plugin settings
function ui_register_settings() {

	// create whitelist of options
	register_setting( 'ui_settings_group', 'ui_settings' );
	}
//call register settings function
add_action( 'admin_init', 'ui_register_settings' );

where ui_settings was my array.

[Sébastien Dumont]

Yes this is irrelevant as I am using filters to just add new fields. This is why I don’t understand it not saving correctly.

The options are saved but the value on each field is given a ZERO instead.

Is there a filter I missed for when the user saves the settings ?

If it helps, this is the tutorial I followed as it is the only one I have come across so far.

May be I overlooked something or there is a spelling mistake. A fresh pair of eyes might do just the trick.

[Robin W]

I’d download the plugin bbp notify to your pc, and crack that open. That plugin adds stuff to dashboard>settings>forums, so see how that one does it.

[Sébastien Dumont]

Thank you for the tip. I will check it out. Maybe there is something in there that the tutorial did not have.

[Sébastien Dumont]

Thank you for your help @robin-w. I have solved the problem and I am now able to complete the plugin.