Adds a new section to a settings page.

Part of the Settings API. Use this to define new settings sections for an admin page.
Show settings sections in your admin page callback function with do_settings_sections() .
Add settings fields to your section with add_settings_field() .

The $callback argument should be the name of a function that echoes out any content you want to show at the top of the settings section before the actual fields. It can output nothing if you want.

$id string Required

Slug-name to identify the section. Used in the 'id' attribute of tags.

$title string Required

Formatted title of the section. Shown as the heading for the section.

$callback callable Required

Function that echos out any content at the top of the section (between heading and fields).

$page string Required

The slug-name of the settings page on which to show the section. Built-in pages include 'general', 'reading', 'writing', 'discussion', 'media', etc. Create your own using add_options_page() ;

$args array Optional

Arguments used to create the settings section.

• before_sectionstring
  HTML content to prepend to the section's HTML output.
  Receives the section's class name as %s.
• after_sectionstring
  HTML content to append to the section's HTML output.
• section_classstring
  The class name to use for the section.

Default: array()

The callback function receives a single optional argument, which is an array with three elements. Example:

add_settings_section(
	'eg_setting_section',
	'Example settings section in reading',
	'eg_setting_section_callback_function',
	'reading'
);
function eg_setting_section_callback_function( $arg ) {
	// echo section intro text here
	echo '<p>id: ' . $arg['id'] . '</p>';             // id: eg_setting_section
	echo '<p>title: ' . $arg['title'] . '</p>';       // title: Example settings section in reading
	echo '<p>callback: ' . $arg['callback'] . '</p>'; // callback: eg_setting_section_callback_function
}

File: wp-admin/includes/template.php. View all references

function add_settings_section( $id, $title, $callback, $page, $args = array() ) {
	global $wp_settings_sections;

	$defaults = array(
		'id'             => $id,
		'title'          => $title,
		'callback'       => $callback,
		'before_section' => '',
		'after_section'  => '',
		'section_class'  => '',
	);

	$section = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );

	if ( 'misc' === $page ) {
		_deprecated_argument(
			__FUNCTION__,
			'3.0.0',
			sprintf(
				/* translators: %s: misc */
				__( 'The "%s" options group has been removed. Use another settings group.' ),
				'misc'
			)
		);
		$page = 'general';
	}

	if ( 'privacy' === $page ) {
		_deprecated_argument(
			__FUNCTION__,
			'3.5.0',
			sprintf(
				/* translators: %s: privacy */
				__( 'The "%s" options group has been removed. Use another settings group.' ),
				'privacy'
			)
		);
		$page = 'reading';
	}

	$wp_settings_sections[ $page ][ $id ] = $section;
}