Hey gang I am in desperate need for some WP advice... I need the following task completed: - the ability to create custom text fields on a WP template that is controlled via the admin backend. The reason I need to accomplish this is because I will be creating a car dealership template to distribute and there are certain fields that are different for each dealership. For example, the name of the company, the location, the phone/fax number, email address etc. that will be displayed at the header and the footer of each page. These fields would then need to be created via the backend of the theme. I heard this could be done with the functions.php file of the theme instead of creating a plugin from scratch so if someone can guide me what to do that would be great! Thanks in advance
Do you mean something like the them options page? Theme options page is a page on admin area, which is designed to give some control over the theme without modifying the theme source every time. there's how to do it. http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Options_Pages