Title: Creating custom theme settings
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Creating custom theme settings

 *  [nielskreijveld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nielskreijveld/)
 * (@nielskreijveld)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-custom-theme-settings/)
 * Hi people,
 * I’ve seen several themes that have custom theme settings. When you activate that
   theme, a page called “theme settings” is added under appearance. On this page
   are settings for colors, images and texts. How do you add these options and pages,
   an how do you use them?
 * Some themes even have some extra settings when adding a post, such as a post 
   image. Can this be added in the same way?

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-custom-theme-settings/#post-1247076)
 * This thread from wp-hackers has links to three good sources of info on the subject…
   look at each of the three response to:
    [http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2009-August/027350.html](http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2009-August/027350.html)

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## Tags

 * [" theme settings"](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/theme-settings/)
 * [custom](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom/)
 * [development](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/development/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-custom-theme-settings/#post-1247076)
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