Title: Creating Custom Backend Functionality
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Creating Custom Backend Functionality

 *  [stitch23red](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stitch23red/)
 * (@stitch23red)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-custom-backend-functionality/)
 * Hi,
 * This is my first post in this forum. I have used WordPress on and off over the
   years and have recently revisited it in the hope of learning to use it more effectively.
 * I have created a few custom themes in the past and have a reasonable grasp on
   how they function. I do however wish to learn how to create user customisable
   areas within themes, to be more specific, I thought in this case I would try 
   to tackle integrating FlexSlider (www.woothemes.com/flexslider/) on the homepage
   of one of my themes and set up a custom control panel in the back-end from which
   the client can easily add, edit and delete images and captions.
 * I do not wish to create or use any plugins but rather have it as a feature embedded
   directly in the theme (if that makes sense).
 * In the past I have ‘assed’ my way through it, copying and pasting bits of code
   here and there but never really understood what I was doing and it limited me
   when I wanted to create my own functionality. I did find one tutorial which seemed
   like exactly what I was after but it got very complex very quickly. This is the
   link:([http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/theme-development/adding-a-responsive-jquery-slider-to-your-wordpress-theme/](http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/theme-development/adding-a-responsive-jquery-slider-to-your-wordpress-theme/))
 * Can somebody point me in the right direction, what I should be studying? (ie 
   books, tutorials, documentation).

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 *  Thread Starter [stitch23red](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stitch23red/)
 * (@stitch23red)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-custom-backend-functionality/#post-4378710)
 * I think I might have found the answer to my own question, but I would still like
   to hear other people’s input.
 * WordPress – Custom Post Type Image Slider on YouTube
    [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voOQDohL4Pc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voOQDohL4Pc)
 * Is this the best way to do it?

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 * [Backend](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/backend/)
 * [control panel](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/control-panel/)

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