Title: Admin Menu Help
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Admin Menu Help

 *  [TBotNik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbotnik/)
 * (@tbotnik)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu-help/)
 * All,
 * Been struggling with adding a custom plugin. Been following HOWTOs from:
 *     ```
       codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Menus,
       codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API,
       codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_action,
       codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_submenu_page,
       codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin,
       return-true.com/2009/02/creating-an-options-admin-page-for-your-wordpress-plugin/,
       ditio.net/2007/08/09/how-to-create-wordpress-plugin-from-a-scratch/,
       www.wp-starter.com/2011/02/how-to-create-a-new-admin-page-in-wordpress/,
       kovshenin.com/2010/02/wordpress-extending-the-contact-form-7-plugin-1985/,
       ```
   
 * I tried all the commands, with no errors, but even though I can register and 
   activate my plugin, I can not get the Admin Menu or submenu items to write into
   my WP session.
 * I’m workdering if the commands changed in 3.2.1 as, looking through all the code
   for my other plugins, that do add to the Admin Menu, I do not find the commands
   specified in any of these HOWTOs.
 * All help appreciated!
 * Thanks!
 * TBNK

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 *  Thread Starter [TBotNik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbotnik/)
 * (@tbotnik)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu-help/#post-2395143)
 * All,
 * Can I get some help?
 * The commands:
 * add_menu_page
    add_submenu_page
 * are not working at all!
 * TBNK
 *  [deltafactory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deltafactory/)
 * (@deltafactory)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu-help/#post-2395144)
 * Can you provide some more details and perhaps a list of what you’ve been trying
   and/or sample code?
 * When are you calling those functions? It should be after the right routines are
   loaded but before the page output begins. Ideally, use something like:
 *     ```
       add_action( 'admin_menu', 'myplugin_menus' );
       function myplugin_menus() {
         add_menu_page( ... ); //Fill proper arguments in..
         add_submenu_page( ... ); //Fill proper arguments in..
       }
       ```
   
 * If you are trying to extend another plugin’s menu, make sure you’re creating 
   your submenus after they create theirs. Try using a lower priority (higher number..)
   for the admin_menu action.
 * Finally, turn on debug mode so that you can see every little thing that’s going
   on. Good luck.
 *  Thread Starter [TBotNik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbotnik/)
 * (@tbotnik)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu-help/#post-2395146)
 * All,
 * Hey I found out that the syntax is soooo very specific and none of the codex 
   HOWTOs even talk about it. Here is what I had to do with my code to get it to
   work:
 * _[Code moderated as per the [Forum Rules](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code).
   Please use the [pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.com/)]_
 * Item 1-3 were just experimental, the real one I was trying to do is #4.
 * It finally worked when all the code was right. Putting the values into vars and
   then dropping them into the commands was really helpful, but had to figure that
   out on my own, because none of the HOWTOs in the codex or elsewhere did that.
 * Still got some other errors, but not related to getting these commands working.
 * Thanks!
 * TBNK

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