Best way to design a slider plugin for my purposes?

Hi,

I’m wanting to design a slider plugin for use in my own sites. (This will not be uploaded online.) The goal is speed up creating sliders on the sites I create — I thought creating a plugin which I add to each site would be faster than doing it solely by code.

I would appreciate any advice about this.

What I want is very simple: a menu item in the sidebar that says ‘Sliders’, in that page I’ll be able to click “Add New Slider” which will create a new slider which I can then click on and go to a page where I can add slides (images, basically) for that slider (which will consist solely of an image.)

I did a tutorial on custom post types which seemed close to what I wanted — I created a “Sliders” section in the menu, and could add slides which consisted of a featured image and a link to a post.

However I want to be able to create multiple sliders, and to individually go into each slider and create the slides there.

I have two simple questions about this: what type of page do I create where I can add new sliders, and what type of page is it where I can add new slides to said sliders.

If it’s unclear what I mean have a look at these two images I found from another slider plugin: slider area and slides area

The first shows the view of the “Sliders” page I want, and the second is the view of the page where I can add slides to a slider.

I thought perhaps this is the right thing: admin menus

I’ll be able to figure it out myself once I know where to start — what kind of menu (or control) do I need to create to do this?

Appreciate any help,
Cheers