Title: Beyond settings API – more "complex" admin pages
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Beyond settings API – more "complex" admin pages

 *  [DrLightman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drlightman/)
 * (@drlightman)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/beyond-settings-api-more-complex-admin-pages/)
 * Hello, I’ve studied settings API and used to build settings pages for plugins
   and themes. I can line up text inputs, checkboxes, radio buttons, textareas, 
   and select pretty well so far.
 * But now I need something more advanced to manage rows of data from custom tables
   other than wp_options, data that doesn’t make much sense to manage inside wp_posts
   with custom post types.
 * These more “complex/advanced/custom” admin pages would need to:
 * – not only requires a single submit button, but some add/edit/delete buttons 
   for example.
 * – some ajax to make things more like the buildt-in edit.php for Posts
 * – show lists of objects pulled from custom database tables.
 * Anyone could direct to me to the canonical and developer friendly way to accomplish
   this?
 * Thank you

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