Title: A plugin question
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# A plugin question

 *  [sc_nickbrowne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sc_nickbrowne/)
 * (@sc_nickbrowne)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-plugin-question/)
 * Hey i have been wondering about writing a plugin and have spent most of the early
   morning trying to code it but im having a few problems.
 * The plugin is meant to find a thread in a mybb forum that has been attached to
   the post in wordpress and then count its replies and then display them as a comment
   count for that post in the wordpress thread. Then the click on the link would
   go to the forum thread.
 * It is also intended to allow the user to enter the forum thread id when creating/
   editing a post. If it does not have a thread attached to the post then it just
   displays comments like normal.
 * If the post does has a thread attached to it then it will not display comments
   on the posts page like it usually would. It would display a link to the forum
   thread.
 * So obviously i have a few questions.
 * 1. How do i add an options area in the side menu for the administrator so that
   they can set the forum url and mybb table prefix? (I can create the pages its
   just adding them to the dashboard that im struggling with).
    2. How do i interupt
   the count of comments for a post and then change that number and the link displayed?
 * Thanks.

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 *  Thread Starter [sc_nickbrowne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sc_nickbrowne/)
 * (@sc_nickbrowne)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-plugin-question/#post-1036608)
 * Can anyone help me?
 *  [Sammyed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sammyed/)
 * (@sammyed)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-plugin-question/#post-1036791)
 * I have no idea but I have a question…
 * Will it be different from WordBB?…I use that and also the WP-o-Matic.

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