Btukfyl

We would like to create a custom button in the wordpress dashboard,

We want this button to hold our pages we create for clients,

Because I want to keep the pages section separate from our "Client" pages

i hope this makes sense

It's really quite straight forward, just takes a bit of getting used to.

You ideally need to follow the docs:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_menu_page/

This will guide you in how to set up an admin menu.

<?php add_menu_page( $page_title, $menu_title, $capability, $menu_slug, $function, $icon_url, $position ); ?>

Will be the code you call when creating the admin sidebar menu item, however, there are more functions for create sub menu pages under it etc.

What I think you are looking for though, is a Custom Post Type for your clients...

https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types

function create_post_type() {

  register_post_type( 'client_posttype',

    array(

      'labels' => array(

        'name' => __( 'Clients' ),

        'singular_name' => __( 'Client' )

      ),

      'public' => true,

      'has_archive' => true,

    )

  );

}

add_action( 'init', 'create_post_type' );

Something similar to above will get you started.

If it's all a bit much, you can generate CPT code:

https://generatewp.com/post-type/

Then have a look at the generated code to work out what it is that you would have coded yourself.

Test this :)

class options_page {



    function __construct() {

        add_action( 'admin_menu', array( $this, 'admin_menu' ) );

    }



    function admin_menu() {

        add_menu_page( 'Clients', 'Clients Page', 'edit_posts', 'clients_page', 'my_clients', '', 24);

    }



    function  settings_page() {

        echo 'This is the page content';

    }

}



new options_page;