title: adding textarea to wordpress options-general.php
body: <p>I don't know exactly how to define my question, im working on my custom Wordpress theme, and I've added custom input field in General Settings in Wordpress admin, by editing general.php and adding a new array in general list, then i created a new tablerow in options-general.php:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;tr valign="top"&gt;
  &lt;th scope="row"&gt;&lt;label for="siteupdates"&gt;&lt;?php _e('Site Updates') ?&gt;&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;input name="siteupdates" type="text" id="content" 
  "value="&lt;?php  form_option('siteupdates'); ?&gt;" class="regular-text" &gt;&lt;/&gt;
  &lt;span class="description"&gt;&lt;?php _e('Site news,updates,etc.') ?&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;/tr&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and also added a div in header.php where i wanted it to be shown:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="siteInfo"&gt;
  &lt;?php form_option('siteupdates'); ?&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--siteInfo end--&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>then i added new Query in wordpress database in phpmyadmin ('siteupdates') and everything works great,since im very new in php, i have watched lots of tutorials and found that way was the easiest for me.
  Now i want to change this input to a textarea field, but when i changed html to: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;tr valign="top"&gt;
  &lt;th scope="row"&gt;&lt;label for="siteupdates"&gt;&lt;?php _e('Site updates') ?&gt;&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;textarea name="siteupdates" type="text" id="content" 
  cols="50" rows="6" value="&lt;?php form_option('siteupdates'); ?&gt;" class="regular-text"&gt;   
  &lt;/textarea&gt;
  &lt;span class="description"&gt;&lt;?php _e('Site news,updates,etc.') ?&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;/tr&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Its looks fine, i see textfield instead of input, but i cant store data in it. Where am i wrong?</p>