Title: Theme-Options.php doesn't save content – only sometimes
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Theme-Options.php doesn't save content – only sometimes

 *  [madsem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madsem/)
 * (@madsem)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-optionsphp-doesnt-save-content-only-sometimes/)
 * Hi 🙂
 * we run a multisite installation on WP 3.0.2, or better we wan’t to go in production
   in a few days. We coded our own theme, plugins etc, everything worked great.
 * But now all of a sudden, the theme-options.php decided to not save content anymore,
   but only sometimes… And we are puzzled as to why this is happening.
 * We have options in there that are supposed to add some extra css, xhtml to the
   footer and slogans to pages. So nothing really special, and it worked great until
   yesterday.
 * We disabled the plugin we initially thought could cause problems, but that didn’t
   solve it.
 * So I decided to ask here for help, maybe you guys have an idea what could cause
   something like this, and point us in the right direction?
 * Here’s a copy of our theme-options.php, maybe we do something fundamentally wrong
   in there but I doubt it 🙂
 *     ```
       <?php
   
       // on admin init create the theme options
       add_action ( 'admin_init', 'init_theme_options');
   
       // add admin menu option
       add_action ( 'admin_menu', 'init_options_menu');
   
       /**
        *@method null init_theme_options()  register the options settings
        **/
       function init_theme_options() {
   
           // register option settings
           register_setting ( 'ourcustom_theme_options_group', 'ourcustom_theme_options' );
   
       }
   
       /**
        *@method null init_options_menu() create the admin menu item for theme options
        **/
       function init_options_menu() {
   
           add_theme_page( 'Theme Options', 'Theme Options', 'edit_theme_options', 'theme-options', 'theme_options_page' );
   
       }
   
       /**
        *@method null theme_options_page() crete the admin theme options page
        **/
       function theme_options_page() {
   
           //get updated request
           if ( !isset( $_REQUEST['updated'] ) )
       		$_REQUEST['updated'] = false;
   
           ?>
           <div class="wrap">
   
               <h2>Theme Options</h2>
   
               <?php if ( $_REQUEST['updated'] == true ): ?>
               <div class="updated">Your Options Have Been Saved</div>
               <?php endif; ?>
   
               <form action="options.php" method="post">
   
                   <?php
   
                   // display required options form fields
                   settings_fields( 'ourcustom_theme_options_group' );
   
                   //get our options
                   $options = get_option ( 'ourcustom_theme_options');
   
                   ?>
   
       	    <h3>Default Theme Header Slogan</h3>
   
       	    <input type="text" name="ourcustom_theme_options[header_slogan]" style="width:100%;" value="<?= $options['header_slogan']; ?>" />
   
       	    <h3>Per Page Theme Header Slogans</h3>
   
       	    <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; border:1px solid #DFDFDF; padding: 2px; height: 300px; overflow-y:scroll; overflow-x: hidden;">
   
       		<?php
   
       		//get pages
       		$pages = get_pages();
   
       		if ( !empty ( $pages ) ) {
   
       		    foreach ( $pages as $page ) {
   
       			?><p><?= $page->post_title; ?><br /><input type="text" name="ourcustom_theme_options[page_header_slogans][<?= $page->ID; ?>]" style="width: 95%;" value="<?= $options['page_header_slogans'][$page->ID]; ?>" /></p><?php
   
       		    }
       		}
       		?>
   
       	    </div>
   
                   <h3>XHTML For Footer Menu - Only Displays To Logged Out Users</h3>
   
                   <textarea name="ourcustom_theme_options[footer_nav_xhtml]" style="width:100%; height: 100px;"><?= $options['footer_nav_xhtml']; ?></textarea>
   
                   <h3>XHTML For Bottom Bar</h3>
   
                   <textarea name="ourcustom_theme_options[bottom_bar_xhtml]" style="width:100%; height:100px;"><?= $options['bottom_bar_xhtml']; ?></textarea>
   
                   <h3>Extra CSS To Add To Page Header</h3>
   
                   <textarea name="ourcustom_theme_options[theme_extra_css]" style="width: 100%; height:100px;"><?= $options['theme_extra_css']; ?></textarea>
                   <p><input type="submit" value="Save Options" /></p>
   
               </form>
   
           </div>
           <?php
       }
       ?>
       ```
   

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 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-optionsphp-doesnt-save-content-only-sometimes/#post-1796757)
 * Please use pastebin for lots of code next time. 🙂
 * Also – “all of a sudden” usually means something else has changed other than 
   your code. tho you did look at recent plugins (good).
 * Check some server logs? Did anything odd get updated?

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