Josh Lyford

Jared Harbour

<p><a href="http://themekitwp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">ThemeKit</a> is a WordPress plugin that helps you supercharge your self-hosted WordPress themes and plugins by providing a uniform way to create options.</p>
<p>For more information, check out <a href="http://themekitwp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">themekitwp.com</a>.</p>
<p>Features include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Integration with Google Fonts.</li>
<li>All data is save in a single option and images are using a custom post type. </li>
<li>Easily create options for almost anything.</li>
<li>Prebuilt controls for fonts, borders, text, checkboxes, radio buttons and more.</li>
<li>Customized version of the WordPress Media Uploader for image management.</li>
<li>and <em>many</em> more options to come!</li>
</ul>


ThemeKit For WordPress

Supercharge your WordPress themes and plugins with powerful features that are easy to create.

akirak

Abdullah Khalfan

<p>Create your own custom variables to manage information on your website such as:</p>
<ul>
<li>Phone numbers</li>
<li>Addresses</li>
<li>Social media links</li>
<li>HTML snippets</li>
<li>And anything else<br />
test</li>
</ul>
<p>Easily access them globally in WordPress and PHP.</p>
<h4>Why you need it</h4>
<p>Rather than having to change something like an email address across multiple pages, you can do it in one place. Avoid the pitfalls of hard coding information in your WordPress theme that is likely to change.</p>
<h4>Why it’s better</h4>
<ul>
<li>Your variables are stored and retrieved locally without any calls to the database. That means faster load times for your pages!</li>
<li>Variables can be accessed easily in PHP from the global scope.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Display your variables using the shortcode syntax:</p>
<pre><code>[cgv variable-name]
</code></pre>
<p>Or using the superglobal in PHP:</p>
<pre><code><?php echo $GLOBALS['cgv']['variable-name'] ?>
</code></pre>


Custom Global Variables

By far the best one "Variables" plugin. I tested some others, those were based on database and because of failed caching I experienced problems. Since the day I moved to this plugin, all problems disappeared :)  I love the simplicity :)



Best of the ones I tested

Easily create custom variables that can be accessed globally in Wordpress and PHP. Retrieval of information is extremely fast, with no database calls.

ThemeKit For WordPress vs Custom Global Variables