add_plugins_page( string $page_title, string $menu_title, string $capability, string $menu_slug, callable $function = '', int $position = null )

Add submenu page to the Plugins main menu.

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Description Description

This function takes a capability which will be used to determine whether or not a page is included in the menu.

The function which is hooked in to handle the output of the page must check that the user has the required capability as well.

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Parameters Parameters

$page_title

(string) (Required) The text to be displayed in the title tags of the page when the menu is selected.

$menu_title

(string) (Required) The text to be used for the menu.

$capability

(string) (Required) The capability required for this menu to be displayed to the user.

$menu_slug

(string) (Required) The slug name to refer to this menu by (should be unique for this menu).

$function

(callable) (Optional) The function to be called to output the content for this page.

Default value: ''

$position

(int) (Optional) The position in the menu order this item should appear.

Default value: null

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Return Return

(string|false) The resulting page's hook_suffix, or false if the user does not have the capability required.

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More Information More Information

This function is a simple wrapper for a call to add_submenu_page(), passing the received arguments and specifying 'plugins.php' as the $parent_slug argument. This means the new page will be added as a sub-menu to the Plugins menu.

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Source Source

File: wp-admin/includes/plugin.php 

function add_plugins_page( $page_title, $menu_title, $capability, $menu_slug, $function = '', $position = null ) {
	return add_submenu_page( 'plugins.php', $page_title, $menu_title, $capability, $menu_slug, $function, $position );
}

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Changelog Changelog

Changelog
Version Description
5.3.0 Added the $position parameter.
3.0.0 Introduced.

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User Contributed Notes User Contributed Notes

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    Contributed by Codex —

    Basic Plugin Page Example
    Typical usage occurs in a function registered with the admin_menu hook (see Adding Administration Menus):

    /**
 * Add a plugin page.
 */
function wpdocs_plugin_menu() {
	add_plugins_page(
		__( 'WPDocs Plugin Page', 'textdomain' ),
		__( 'WPDocs Plugin, 'textdomain' ),
		'read',
		'wpdocs-unique-identifier',
		'wpdocs_plugin_function'
	);
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'wpdocs_plugin_menu' );

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