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Ryan Field
Courses Plus Student 21,242 PointsWordPress custom admin section
I am going to be working on a website that I will probably be built on WordPress, and I had a question about making custom admin sections.
I know how to add a custom Theme Options page where users can customize different areas of the theme by using get_option['my_options']. For the site, however, they want to have an employee section, so I was thinking of adding a page where the administrator can add and delete employees solely within the admin area. How would one go about adding a page that has a variable number of options like this? Can anyone share any resources about this or point me in the general direction for information?
1 Answer
Christopher Rebacz
10,904 PointsThe fastest way to customize which pages are allowed for specific users is with a plugin like Advanced Menu Editor. this will help remove any pages you have (including custom ones) based on user role.
If you don't want to add a plugin, or need more control, look into creating a custom capability and role for the employee users. You then could your add employee options page call within a conditional...I.e if (current user can ('custom_capability'){add_menu_page...}
Hopefully that makes sense.