If you are going to create a WordPress plugin, you also want to create a WordPress admin menu for your plugin so users can get to your plugin settings to adjust them.

You can create a WordPress plugin page to tell WordPress what settings users can adjust from the dashboard.

Add WordPress plugin page

When you create a WordPress admin menu, one of the add_menu_page options is $function.

if( !function_exists("extra_post_info_menu") ) { function extra_post_info_menu(){ ...   function   = 'extra_post_info_page'; ...   add_menu_page( $page_title,                  $menu_title,                   $capability,                   $menu_slug,                   $function,                   $icon_url,                   $position ); } }

This defines the function WordPress will use when displaying your menu page for the plugin.

In this example I named mine extra_post_info_page. I can start by just setting a heading on my page.

if( !function_exists("extra_post_info_page") ) { function extra_post_info_page(){ ?>   <h1>WordPress Extra Post Info</h1> <?php } } ?>

Plugin page with basic info

The results of our code so far just displays some text on our plugin page.

Save WordPress plugin settings with a form

Now that you have a very basic WordPress plugin page created, the next step is to save WordPress plugin settings with a form so that your plugin can load those settings later.