id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
23253	Lack of a do_settings_section (singular) function	auniquename		"After considerable research I have found that plugin authors, including myself, have to go to great lengths to put options into tabs on a plugin settings page. The majority use JavaScript to modify the DOM in order to achieve this, others have broken their options into several settings arrays instead of the recommended single array to facilitate the creation of tabs using the traditional WordPress nav-tab-wrapper class approach. 

To get my own options into tabs in a fully scoped css jquery ui theme I ended up adding my own hacky function to my plugin: myplugin_do_settings_section( $page, $sectionid ) - which is just a copy of the core function do_settings_sections( $page ) with an additional parameter for the section id and an added conditional to only output the section with the requested id.

This allows me to wrap each section in the appropriately classed tags for either jquery ui tabs or traditional WordPress nav-tabs. This however, is not an acceptable long-term solution as the core code will undoubtedly change, I already see tickets and revisions relating to the removal of those nasty tables...

This functionality should be in the core code. A settings section is a ''section'' and it should be possible to output them one at a time to allow for styling.

Thanks for considering my proposal.

(Also, the Iris color picker does not play nice with jquery-ui - it needs its own css scope or something - that will be a separate ticket once I have a better understanding of what is wrong with it and have searched for existing tickets on the subject.)


"	enhancement	new	normal	Awaiting Review	Plugins		normal