However, after a lot of head-scratching and editing, I have managed to strip the slashes from inside my WP options page (I want to add a “text-area” field for a google adsense banner code), the adsense code when saved no longer has the slashes, but when I return to the site, clear cache and refresh, the adsense code doesn’t work as when I view the source it’s still showing the adsense code WITH slashes.

So can anyone tell me of a way to make the adsense banner code work on-site?

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated – I can offer a free theme from stylewp.com to anyone who solves this problem I have :)

For theme authors looking to customize their theme offerings with a fancy options/administration screen, functions.php is the place to start. By default, WordPress loads it whenever your theme is active — on the front page or on the back end….

You want to clean the data on retrieval if possible so as to avoid \”options\” showing up in your options page.

if ( ’save’ == $_REQUEST['action'] ) {
foreach ($options as $value) {
$dato = stripslashes($_REQUEST[$value['id']]);
update_option( $value['id'], $dato ); }
foreach ($options as $value) {
$dato = stripslashes($_REQUEST[$value['id']]);
if( isset( $_REQUEST[ $value['id'] ] ) ) { update_option( $value['id'], $dato ); } else { delete_option( $value['id'] ); } }
}

simple add the stripslashes before the data is added :D