Title: creating a custom code page for plugin
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# creating a custom code page for plugin

 *  [imstevil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imstevil/)
 * (@imstevil)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-custom-code-page-for-plugin/)
 * I’m sorry for asking such a n00b question, but I’m having a lot of trouble finding
   this while searching (I’m also not 100% sure what I should be searching for).
 * What I’m looking to do, is have a plugin where I can have a page setup where 
   the content is generated purely by a php file. So still works with the template
   as normal, but all the output from that file is put into the content area.
 * So if for example I had a php file which was just
 *     ```
       <?php
       print "this would be in the content area";
       ?>
       ```
   
 * Then you would get a normal page with “this would be in the content area”.
 * I’m aware something like this could be done using wordpress files rather than
   creating my own custom files, but I’m interested in if it can be done in general,
   and if so how it’s done incase I want to do more complex things which might be
   easier to manage doing it this way.
 * I’m thinking this is probably something easy, but unfortunately I’m very new 
   to word press plugins and have a client I do work for normally (not normally 
   in wordpress) who is starting to ask for a few different things and I’m not sure
   where to start looking. As always with clients, they always let you know about
   a job when the deadline is right around the corner!
 * If anyone can point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated!
 * Thank you in advance

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 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-custom-code-page-for-plugin/#post-2709083)
 * You can use this filter
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/the_content](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/the_content)
   to change the content of any WordPress post or page before it is displayed. You
   could for example create dummy blank pages and filter their content in PHP, replacing
   the existing content that’s in the page with any output from any PHP function.
   Thus you could use a PHP “include” to include the output of an external PHP or
   HTML file, by assigning it to a variable in the filter function.
 *     ```
       add_filter( 'the_content', 'my_content_filter' );
       function my_content_filter( $content )
          if ( is_page( 'some-page-slug' ) {
             $content = 'this would be in the content area';
          } elseif ( is_page( 'another-page-slug' ) {
             $content = 'something else';
          }
          return $content;
       }
       ```
   
 * This leaves the content of all posts and pages except for the two that are being
   reassigned as the post/page’s default content.
 * The function above doesn’t have to go in a plugin (however, it can). You can 
   put it in the theme’s functions.php file
 * See this for WordPress conditionals:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags)
 *  Thread Starter [imstevil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imstevil/)
 * (@imstevil)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-custom-code-page-for-plugin/#post-2709125)
 * Thanks stvwlf! I think that should do what I’m looking for, now I know what I’m
   searching for was able to do a bit more research on it and found this:-
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-create-a-new-page-with-the-plugin-im-building](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-create-a-new-page-with-the-plugin-im-building)
 * Unfortunately I just woke up not long ago and running latel for work. When I 
   get home I’ll test it out and if I can manage it will post my finaly code for
   the problem… though I have a feeling it will be very similar to the code used
   here and in the other post.

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