Question

I am trying to create my first wordpress plugin and I want to add a new “menu item” in the wordpress default menu bar. So when I click that menu item, the html form need to be shown by my plugin.

comparing to Joomla, in joomla it has views in “components” so I can easily create a new menu item, and assign a view as I want. In wordpress how do I do that for a plugin?

Please help. Thanks

Answer 1

I recommend that for your form for the front end, make a shortcode that will render your form. Then people can create a page (which gets you your menu item) and put your form on the page, optionally with some text / images above or below the form. This is better than trying to insert a “page” into the menu and somehow getting it where your plugin’s users want it to go 🙂

For the admin side, use the admin menu functions.