Title: Fail to initialize variables
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Fail to initialize variables

 *  [czone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/czone/)
 * (@czone)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fail-to-initialize-variables/)
 * Hello friends,
 * I created a theme with features like customizable social links and banners. Created
   a theme option page for user to manage these items.
    They all work perfectly 
   fine with just **one problem**.
 * When a user installs my theme then there custom options are not initialized unless
   the user opens the option page and save changes.
 * When I looked into the problem i saw that when the theme is installed at that
   time it has no entries in database for my custom variables. It does that when
   a user clicks the changes in the theme option page.
    Since the theme is based
   on conditions such as “if banner = enable { show banner … ” therefore these conditions
   can not work if they can not find there values in database.
 * Friends kindly guide me how to enter my custom values & there STD at the time
   the theme is installed.
 * Thanks 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [czone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/czone/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fail-to-initialize-variables/)
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