add_settings_section( string $id, string $title, callable $callback, string $page )

Add a new section to a settings page.

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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.

Parameters Parameters

$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();

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File: wp-admin/includes/template.php 

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

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

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

	$wp_settings_sections[$page][$id] = array('id' => $id, 'title' => $title, 'callback' => $callback);
}

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2.7.0 Introduced.

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    Contributed by Ivan Shulev —

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

    
add_settings_section(
	'eg_setting_section',
	__( 'Example settings section in reading', 'textdomain' ),
	'wpdocs_setting_section_callback_function',
	'reading'
);

/**
 * Settings section display callback.
 *
 * @param array $args Display arguments.
 */ 
function wpdocs_setting_section_callback_function( $args ) {
	// echo section intro text here
	echo '<p>id: ' . esc_html( $args['id'] ) . '</p>';                         // id: eg_setting_section
	echo '<p>title: ' . apply_filters( 'the_title', $args['title'] ) . '</p>'; // title: Example settings section in reading
	echo '<p>callback: ' . esc_html( $args['callback'] ) . '</p>';             // callback: eg_setting_section_callback_function
}

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