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Adding new sections to the dashboard menu (3 posts)

  1. dr_tchock
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    This may be a question that's been asked a million times but I can't really find an answer so here goes. I'd like to use WP to manage content on more than one page on a website - both a 'news' section and a 'clients' section. The 'news' bit is easily managed through the 'posts' functionality but the 'clients' bit would necessitate an entire new section in the dashboard where the user could do the following:

    - add/edit a client.
    - upload/add files to that 'client' so that they would be displayed in the clients' section.
    - probably some other stuff I've overlooked so far.

    Not sure where to start with this, perhaps there is a plugin that could help? I'm not hugely php-savvy (my background is Actionscript, so I do code) but I'm sure I can figure stuff out but wouldn't be comfortable starting from scratch here.

    Any ideas? I'm fairly new to the WP game, having only done a couple of custom themes so far.

  2. duck__boy
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    You want Custom Post Types, they will do pretty much all you need.

    Got a plugin here

    Or an excellent tutorial here

  3. dr_tchock
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Awesome, I had a feeling custom post types might be the answer, will check it out. Looks like I don't have to buy expressionengine, after all!

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