Title: Adding a menu section through template function
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Adding a menu section through template function

 *  [Steven Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rainemaida/)
 * (@rainemaida)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-menu-section-through-template-function/)
 * Ok,
 * Currently I have a function which adds a submenu to the Appearance admin section
   called Opening Times.
 * What I’d really like to have though is another section like Appearance but called
   Theme Settings, then I can add Opening Times, Description etc to it and create
   a whole sub section for that particular template. I’ve looked at the codex but
   I can’t get my head around it as it’s more geared towards plugins – can anyone
   help add to the code to try and accomplish this task?
 *     ```
       <?php class ControlPanel {
   
       var $default_settings = Array(
         'day1' => 'Monday',
         'time1' => '9:30-6:30'
         );
   
         function ControlPanel() {
           add_action('admin_menu', array(&$this, 'admin_menu'));
           add_action('admin_head', array(&$this, 'admin_head'));
   
           if (!is_array(get_option('parkway')))
           add_option('parkway', $this->default_settings);
           $this->options = get_option('parkway');
   
           if (function_exists('register_sidebar'))
               register_sidebar(array('name' => 'Sidebar'));
         }
   
         function admin_menu() {
           add_theme_page('Parkway Options', 'Opening Times', 'edit_themes', "parkway", array(&$this, 'optionsmenu'));
         }
   
         function admin_head() {
           echo '<link rel="stylesheet" href="'.get_bloginfo('template_url').'/code/controlpanel.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />';
         }
   
         function optionsmenu() {
         echo '<div id="icon-tools" class="icon32"><br /></div>';
         echo '<div class="wrap">';
         echo '<h2>Parkway Options</h2><br />';
         echo '<h3>Opening Times</h3><hr color="lightgray" width="99%" align="left" size="1">';
         if ($_POST['ss_action'] == 'save') {
           $this->options["day1"] = $_POST['cp_day1'];
       	$this->options["time1"] = $_POST['cp_time1'];
           update_option('parkway', $this->options);
           echo '<div class="updated fade" id="message" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 204); width: 300px; margin-left: 20px"><p>Settings <strong>saved</strong>.</p></div>';
         }
   
         echo '<form action="" method="post" class="themeform">';
         echo '<input type="hidden" id="ss_action" name="ss_action" value="save">';
         echo '<p>Day of the Week: <input class="widefat" style="text-align: right; width: 75px" name="cp_day1" id="cp_day1" type="text" value="'.$this->options["day1"].'" /></p>';
         echo '<p>Time: <input class="widefat" style="text-align: right; width: 75px" name="cp_time1" id="time1" type="text" value="'.$this->options["time1"].'" /></p>';
         echo '<p class="submit"><input type="submit" value="Save Changes" name="cp_save"/></p>';
         echo '</form>';
         echo '</div>';
       }
       }
       ```
   
 * Thanks a lot for your time.
    Steve

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 *  [Peter Butler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peterebutler/)
 * (@peterebutler)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-menu-section-through-template-function/#post-1033364)
 * Have you hooked in your ControlPanel function anywhere? I can’t see it in the
   code you’ve posted there, although I may have just missed it.
 * You’d want to hook in like this:
 *     ```
       add_action('admin_menu', 'my_plugin_menu');
       ```
   
 * replacing my_plugin_menu with your function name.
 * By the looks of things you’ve probably already read this, but following the instructions
   on this page – [Adding Administration Menus](http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus),
   in your functions.php file should do the trick.
 *  Thread Starter [Steven Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rainemaida/)
 * (@rainemaida)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-menu-section-through-template-function/#post-1033462)
 * Sorry I’m stuggling with this – the code I had above I understand only a bit 
   and I’ve read up on it but I’m still finding it hard to get my head around.
 * I’ve tried stuff on that page but when I add things in it keep goings blank so
   is obviously not working.
 * When you say hooked in my control panel – what does that mean and second what
   is my function name?
 * I’m probably diving in too deep here but I have something that needs to be complete
   this week so unfortunately I’ve been chucked in the deep end!
 * Appreicate any more guidance, thanks.

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