Title: creating a new admin panel tab
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# creating a new admin panel tab

 *  [ehmcgregor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ehmcgregor/)
 * (@ehmcgregor)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-new-admin-panel-tab/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m begenning an fairly ambition plugin project and i’m struggling to find documentation
   on how to do a few things.
 * I would like my plougin to create it’s own tab in the admin area, on the top 
   level, called “list-admin”. i have seen many, many plugins do this, and tried
   to pick apart their code, but have failed. is there documentation on how this
   works somewhere? am i missing it?
 * I believe this is the code snippet from a popular ratings plugin that does what
   I want. but I don’t understand how it’s doing it.
 * add_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘ratings_menu’);
    function ratings_menu() { if (function_exists(‘
   add_menu_page’)) { add_menu_page(__(‘Ratings’), __(‘Ratings’), ‘manage_ratings’,‘
   postratings/postratings-manager.php’); } if (function_exists(‘add_submenu_page’)){
   add_submenu_page(‘postratings/postratings-manager.php’, __(‘Manage Ratings’),
   __(‘Manage Ratings’), ‘manage_ratings’, ‘postratings/postratings-manager.php’);
   add_submenu_page(‘postratings/postratings-manager.php’, __(‘Ratings Options’),
   __(‘Ratings Options’), ‘manage_ratings’, ‘postratings/postratings-options.php’);}}
 * thanks for your help.

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 *  Thread Starter [ehmcgregor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ehmcgregor/)
 * (@ehmcgregor)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-new-admin-panel-tab/#post-440605)
 * Oh, hey! I just found this: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus](http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus)
 * Ok… i’m on the right track now.
 * I’ll go ahead and get started on my next question. I would like to add specific
   list fields to “the post”. Right now, the post contains a ‘title’, a ‘body’ field.
   I would like to add specific columns in the database for ‘item number’, and ‘
   price’. So something could have a title, a description, an item number (different
   from post number) and a price.
 * I don’t want to use ‘custom fields’. I just don’t like how they operate.
 * what kind of implication would it have to add these columns to the wordpress 
   post database table? how would it affect ‘the loop’.

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