Title: using checkboxes in theme options
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# using checkboxes in theme options

 *  [ext103](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ext103/)
 * (@ext103)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-checkboxes-in-theme-options/)
 * hello there.
 * i am currently getting my theme design up to scratch so i can release it.
 * i have built in a “social bookmarking” area in the theme (under posts and pages).
 * thing is i want the theme user to be able to decide which icons/bookmarking sites
   they display out of the selection.
 * the best way to do this is to add an options page with checkboxes for the different
   icons.
 * thing is i have prior knowledge of creating and retrieving options, but they 
   have always been text options, so the forms have been pretty easy.
 * now i need to figure out checkboxes and countless google searches and codex searches
   has turned up info, but not anything that runs me through the process from start
   to finish.
 * im hopeing someone here can help me out.
 * ill post the code below for the whole options page (unfished obviously)
 *     ```
       <?php
       //customize menu
       add_action('admin_menu', 'my_bookmarks_menu');
       add_action( 'admin_init', 'register_mysettings' );
       function my_bookmarks_menu() {
       add_theme_page(__('theme_bookmarks'), __('Bookmarks'), 'edit_theme_options', 'bookmarks', 'bookmarks_page');
       }
       // register settings
       function register_mysettings() {
       //register our settings
       register_setting('bookmarks' , 'delicious');
       register_setting('bookmarks', 'twit');
       register_setting('bookmarks', 'stumbleupon');
       register_setting('bookmarks', 'face');
       register_setting('bookmarks', 'technorati');
       register_setting('bookmarks', 'google');
       register_setting('bookmarks', 'reddit');
       register_setting('bookmarks', 'blinklist');
       register_setting('bookmarks', 'blogmarks');
       register_setting('bookmarks', 'digg');
       register_setting('bookmarks', 'diigo');
       register_setting('bookmarks', 'misterwong');
       register_setting('bookmarks', 'newsvine');
       }
       //top level menu table page
       function bookmarks_page () {
       ?>
       <div class="wrap">
       <?php screen_icon(); ?>
       <h2>Bookmarks</h2>
       <h3>Please select which bookmarking options you would like to be displayed below posts and pages.</h3>
       <form method="post" action="options.php">
           <?php settings_fields( 'bookmarks' ); ?>
           <table class="form-table">
   
       <tr valign="top">
       <th scope="row">Delicious</th>
       <td><fieldset><legend class="screen-reader-text"><span>Memebership</span></legend><label for="delcious">
       <input name="delcious" type="checkbox" id="delcious" value="true" <?php checked('true', get_option('delicious')); ?> />
       <?php _e('Anyone can register') ?></label>
       </fieldset></td>
       </tr>
   
           </table>
   
           <p class="submit">
           <input type="submit" class="button-primary" value="<?php _e('Save Changes') ?>" />
           </p>
   
       </form>
       </div>
       <?php } ?>
       ```
   

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 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-checkboxes-in-theme-options/#post-1619344)
 * Why don’t you download a theme that has lots of options, such as Arras, some 
   of Brian Gardner’s old themes, I’m trying to think of some nice themes that have
   lots of options and aren’t premium themes that you can download and inspect and
   see how they do it.

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