Now that we have a full working theme, we are going to create a powerful admin theme options panel. Through this awesome panel, the store manager will have the option of configuring some settings of the theme without having programming knowledge.
To create the admin theme options panel, we need to develop a custom Magento module that will have the scope of creating options in the backend, which will make changes in the frontend.
The following are the topics that will be covered in this chapter:
Creating the theme options module
Overviewing the
System.xmlfieldsCreating the advanced admin options panel
Interfacing the admin panel with the theme
Advanced options features
Creating a visual color picker in admin
Defining default values for options fields
A quick theme option panel recap