WordPress developer Dan Cole has created a Plugin to take the job of theme options out of the hands of theme developers and, in that way, universalize them. The idea is that instead of each theme creating its own options page, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, they can all hook into this one Plugin.
Dan’s Plugin is called Theme Options, and is available in the WordPress Plugin directory.
This sort of Plugin is one that tends to divide people, as it seems to beg for themes to require its installation in order for the theme to work to its fullest. At the same time, the simplicity of options sticking around from theme to theme, modularizing preferences and making transitions from themes that much easier, is a pretty solid argument for wanting to use it.
The Theme Options Plugin and Dan Cole caught my interest, so I asked him to sit down with a few of my questions, to give a little insight into the creation of this Plugin, and where he hopes it will go.
