Documentation
Greetings and welcome to the Handy reference documentation! This page contains a list of official Handy resources covering different topics.
Getting Started
Hello there! Are you ready to to learn more about Handy? Let's first take a brief look at Handy and see how we can use it to our WordPress theme development projects.
Essentials
Before we proceed to the next step and build our first control, let's first take a moment to learn or become familiar with the three essential components of Handy.
Controls
Now that we have already learned the three essential components of Handy, we can now proceed and create a control. Here is a list of available controls that you can use.
Audio Uploader
Alignment
Angle Picker
Button Set
Checkbox
Checkbox Multiple
Checkbox Pill
Code Editor
Color Picker
Color Set
Content Editor
Counter
Dashicons
Date Picker
Dimension
Dropdown Custom Post
Dropdown Page
Dropdown Post
Duotone
File Uploader
Group
Image Checkbox
Image Radio
Image Uploader
Markup
Number
Radio
Range
Repeater
Select
Size
Sortable
Switch
Tagging
Tagging Select
Text
Textarea
Time Picker
Toggle
URL
Video Uploader
Arguments
There can be some confusion about the arguments, so to help clarify, we've included comprehensive and thorough documentation on each common argument.
active_callback
default
description
id
label
panel
placeholder
priority
sanitize_callback
section
title
validations
Utilities
In some cases we need to use WordPress Rest API to provide an internal data to our control, and we are aware that this will take some time. As a result, Handy offers helpful utilities that you may utilize to feed data into your controls.