WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a dynamic content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. It offers a semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

Whether you’re developing WordPress themes for yourself, for a client, or to sell commercially, having the ability to customize aspects of your theme via the WordPress control panel makes your theme infinitely flexible.

By giving backend users access to theme options that otherwise would involve digging into the php template files to change layout, logo image, colors, and any number of other options.

Including a WordPress Theme Options page for your theme is one of the best ways to increase ease-of-use for managing a complex theme.

Here goes few industry standard WordPress Theme Options Frameworks to save a lot of your time.

Option Tree: WordPress Theme Options Framework

Option Tree is a free WordPress Theme Options plugin which helps you create as many Theme Options as your project requires and use them how you see fit. When you add a option to the Settings page, it will be available on the Theme Options page for use in your theme.

Included is the ability to Import/Export all the theme options and data for packaging with custom themes or local development. With the Import/Export feature you can get a theme set up on a live server in minutes.

OptionTree is a project sponsored by ThemeForest, the largest WordPress theme marketplace on the web.

Options Framework Theme

The Options Framework Theme has all the code included to build a out a full featured options panel. It’s basically a bundled version of the Options Framework Plugin for those folks who want to build the options directly into the theme (rather than relying on a plugin).

The UPThemes WordPress Options Framework

A compact standalone WordPress theme options framework that contains extensible engines for SEO, custom layouts, typography, and much more.

NHP Theme Options Framework

A simple, easy to use, very extendable WordPress theme Options framework for WP themes. Every function/action can be customised, with more hook points and configuration options being added with every update.