Question

I am developing a bespoke WordPress theme including a custom admin section inside the WordPress CMS.

I have been looking for inspiration from exisiting admin panels and have found exactly what I am looking for (but not for jobs) http://demo.wpjobboard.net/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpjb/job

I have managed to create my own panel section and sub menu.

• My Site Options
  • News
  • Events

When the user selects News or Events I need WordPress to list the news and events to be shown on the site. I am confused as to where the news and events data would be stored though.

In a custom php cms I would have events/news tables and list the data out for these in a html table. For WordPress would it be in the WordPress posts table or in a custom table?

Thank you.

Answer 1

I’m assuming what you want is a section with optional theme settings. It’s a bit of work to explain how to do it here, but I found this tutorial which is extremely helpful.