GS Custom Settings [v0.6.2]

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What's with the sidemenus and ordering. Sidemenus are called tabs?

Well I guess that's a terminology issue :p. The ordering simply allows you to order the tabs (or sidemenus) as you want to present them to the webmaster who will manage the website. Ditto for the settings ordering

Are there hooks to register your own settings programmatically?

No, the point is that by adding a new 'setting' you ARE registering your own setting. Eg, you make a new setting called 'Include image in blogpost?', in the tab (or sidebar) 'Blog', which is of type checkbox. Now in themes and components, you can do:

PHP Code:

<?php if (get_setting('blog/include_image_in_blogpost', false)) { 
  // setting names are = TAB / SETTING (php-ified)
  // returns TRUE (checked) or FALSE (unchecked) for checkboxes
?>
  <img src="myimage.png">
<?php } ?>

Can you give an example usage, not sure I understand what this is for. Just General settings?

Sure, for example, as quoted from the Extend plugin page:

You could use this plugin for eg, social media links, small texts, picture sizes, basically any tweakable variable based on which you want to modify output.

Perhaps it is more understandable when illustrated: (see updated first post)

As a last word on use, I should mention that I originally built this to provide extra settings to pass to (I18n) components, which are modifiable by webmasters (as opposed to developers). So a final answer to your question would be: "The plugin provides the ability to register your own custom settings site-wide, like i18n custom fields, but not bound to pages; or like theme plugins, but not bound to themes." In a future release I will also provide an import/ export feature so your settings can be re-used in multiple sites.

does not work

Thanks for this! I planned on adding a last step feature but didn't in the end, and unfortunately a small piece of unfinished code broke it; FIXED now.