HOW TO ADD NEW ITEMS IN ADMIN MENU OF WORDPRESS

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Today you will learn how to add new items in the wordpress admin menu. This i tell using plugin. So follow the below steps.

Steps 1: Creating the folder in wp-content\plugins\ in this folder create the new folder there is name test_plugin

Step 2: Creating the a new file in the test_plugin like index.php and paste the following code.

Code

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Insert Page in admin menu
Plugin URI: http://rakeshkumar125.wordpress.com
Description: This plugin shows you how to add page in admin menu
Author: Rakesh Kumar
Author URI: http://rakeshkumar125.wordpress.com
*/
// Hook for adding admin menus
add_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘mt_add_pages’);
// action function for above hook
function mt_add_pages() {
// Add a new top-level menu (ill-advised):
add_menu_page(__(‘Your Menu Title’), __(‘Your Menu name’), ‘manage_options’, ‘mt-top-level-handle’, ‘mt_toplevel_page’ );
}
// mt_toplevel_page() displays the page content for the custom Test Toplevel menu
function mt_toplevel_page() {
echo “
” . __( ‘page contents for the menu’ ) . “
“;
}
?>

In the above code the bold lines just shows the description of the user who create the plugin.