Title: adding top level menu to wordpress dashboard
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# adding top level menu to wordpress dashboard

 *  [suavedesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suavedesign/)
 * (@suavedesign)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-top-level-menu-to-wordpress-dashboard/)
 * I am pretty new to wordpress. What I am trying to do now is add a custom menu
   to the wordpress dashboard left panel.
    Does this require php knowledge? And 
   if I dont know php, should I bother trying this? I would appreciate if someone
   could give me a url link to a good tutorial on how to add a custom top level 
   menu to my dashboard. Thanks!

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-top-level-menu-to-wordpress-dashboard/#post-2856365)
 * Is this for a plugin?
 *  Thread Starter [suavedesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suavedesign/)
 * (@suavedesign)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-top-level-menu-to-wordpress-dashboard/#post-2856367)
 * All I want to do is add a new menu item to the list of categories on the dashboard
   panel. (Pages, posts, appearance, etc.)
    Does that require a plugin? I have no
   idea! Please help… Thanks!
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-top-level-menu-to-wordpress-dashboard/#post-2856372)
 * In order to do this, you would need to write a plugin, yes.
 *  Thread Starter [suavedesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suavedesign/)
 * (@suavedesign)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-top-level-menu-to-wordpress-dashboard/#post-2856384)
 * Does that require php knowledge?
    Is there a good tutorial that shows how to 
   do this? And do you think I should bother if I have no php knowledge? (Only html
   and css) Thanks a lot for your help- really appreciate it!
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-top-level-menu-to-wordpress-dashboard/#post-2856387)
 * > Does that require php knowledge?
 * Yes
 * > Is there a good tutorial that shows how to do this?
 * [http://ottopress.com/2009/wordpress-settings-api-tutorial/](http://ottopress.com/2009/wordpress-settings-api-tutorial/)
 * > And do you think I should bother if I have no php knowledge? (Only html and
   > css)
 * To be brutally honest. no. Learn to use some PHP first.
 *  Thread Starter [suavedesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suavedesign/)
 * (@suavedesign)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-top-level-menu-to-wordpress-dashboard/#post-2856391)
 * Thank you.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-top-level-menu-to-wordpress-dashboard/#post-2856391)
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