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The WordPress admin control panel, or what is known as the dashboard, is the first page that appears to the user after logging into the WordPress website. Through its side menu, which has several tabs, you can go to many pages designed to customize all aspects of the site, such as appearance, plugins, members, settings, etc. In today’s article, we will learn how you, as a WordPress developer, can customize the site’s admin control panel and add a dedicated admin page to it, in order to provide through this page forms or panels through which the site owner can customize the template or add-on that Develop it in a customized manner, and provide important information and links about it to the user through the Settings API, instead of going to the customization page integrated into the WordPress system (WordPress Customizer).

Article Contents Why do you need to customize a control panel

Admin of WordPress? Steps to customize the WordPress admin control panel Step 1.

Adding a menu item in the control panel takes us to the page

Customized Where is the code for adding a menu item to the control panel written? Step2.

Add the required content to the custom template customization page.

Register_setting function add_settings_section function add_settings_field function settings_fields function do_settings_sections function Step3: Process the customization form for the template customization page. Step 4: Format the custom page for the control panel.

Conclusion: Why do you need to customize the admin control panel for your WordPress site?

If you are a plugin developer or WordPress template developer, you may need to add dedicated pages to the control panel, so that these pages display the settings for this plugin, or various options for customizing the template and direct the user to them after activating this template or plugin. You may also need to add new menu items to the control panel and display a page that shows information about the template or add-on, or a page to show the status of your site or other information. Here comes the necessity of learning how to create and customize a page in the control panel to display this information and new options to the site administrator.

There are many methods and options available to create custom pages in the admin control panel of a WordPress site, but in today’s article we will create a new page in the WordPress site’s control panel to customize our template that we built in the learning course to develop a WordPress template through the Settings API. We will add to this page some simple options to learn how we can customize our template through them instead of the template customization page. Read also: Customize a WordPress template programmatically through the Theme Customization API. If you would like to see information about customizing the control panel in WordPress and increasing it with different customization options, I advise you to read the following article from the official WordPress developers website.

Steps to customize the WordPress admin control panel to add

A dedicated admin page in WordPress. We need two basic things: creating the required page and filling it with content. This is usually done by writing a custom function within which we need to call a group of ready-made functions in the settings programming interface, as we will explain in detail in our following paragraphs. We also need to create a menu item within the control panel that will take us to this custom page through the add_menu_page function.

Step1.

Adding a menu item in the control panel takes us to the custom page. First, let's add a new menu item to the admin control panel to access the custom page. We can do this, as we just mentioned, by using the ready-made function add_menu_page, which is used to add a new menu item to the control panel, which has the following general form: add_menu_page( string $page_title, string $menu_title, string $capability, string $menu_slug, callable $callback = '', string $icon_url = '', int|float $position = null ): string And here is the meaning of each of these parameters $page_title This parameter is mandatory, and is a text string representing the text that will be displayed in the title tag of the page that will appear when this menu is selected. You must pass this parameter a title that expresses the content of the page, such as (customizing the template). It is preferable that this title be translatable by wrapping it in one of the translation functions.

menu_title$ This parameter is mandatory. It is a string representing the text that will appear as the title of the menu item and can be passed the same value as the page_title$ parameter. $capability: A mandatory parameter, which is a text string that expresses the permission that the user must have in order for this menu to appear on the control panel. For example, we can pass here the value manage_option.

$menu_slug: Mandatory parameter which is a text string representing the name or URL that points to the custom page that appears to us when we click on this menu. This string must be unique to the listing page and include only lowercase letters, dashes, and underscores. $callback: An optional parameter representing the function to be called to show the page content associated with the list.

For example, the following code could be written to show a title with a welcome phrase at the top of the page Ola Theme page This template was developed for educational purposes as part of the series on learning to develop templates provided by WordPress in Arabic

Ola Theme page This template was developed for educational purposes as part of the series on learning to develop templates provided by WordPress in Arabic