add_settings_error( string $setting, string $code, string $message, string $type = 'error' )

Register a settings error to be displayed to the user.

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Description Description

Part of the Settings API. Use this to show messages to users about settings validation problems, missing settings or anything else.

Settings errors should be added inside the $sanitize_callback function defined in register_setting() for a given setting to give feedback about the submission.

By default messages will show immediately after the submission that generated the error. Additional calls to settings_errors() can be used to show errors even when the settings page is first accessed.

Parameters Parameters

$setting

(string) (Required) Slug title of the setting to which this error applies.

$code

(string) (Required) Slug-name to identify the error. Used as part of 'id' attribute in HTML output.

$message

(string) (Required) The formatted message text to display to the user (will be shown inside styled <div> and <p> tags).

$type

(string) (Optional) Message type, controls HTML class. Accepts 'error' or 'updated'.

Default value: 'error'

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File: wp-admin/includes/template.php 

function add_settings_error( $setting, $code, $message, $type = 'error' ) {
	global $wp_settings_errors;

	$wp_settings_errors[] = array(
		'setting' => $setting,
		'code'    => $code,
		'message' => $message,
		'type'    => $type,
	);
}

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3.0.0 Introduced.

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    Basic Example

    function change( $data ) {

    $message = null;
    $type = null;

    if ( null != $data ) {

        if ( false === get_option( 'myOption' ) ) {

            add_option( 'myOption', $data );
            $type = 'updated';
            $message = __( 'Successfully saved', 'my-text-domain' );

        } else {

            update_option( 'myOption', $data );
            $type = 'updated';
            $message = __( 'Successfully updated', 'my-text-domain' );

        }

    } else {

        $type = 'error';
        $message = __( 'Data can not be empty', 'my-text-domain' );

    }

    add_settings_error(
        'myUniqueIdentifyer',
        esc_attr( 'settings_updated' ),
        $message,
        $type
    );

}

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