WordPress Plugin: How to create a new subpage?

Question

i have to write a WordPress plugin which should provide a new subpage with some kind of contact form. The plugins I've made yet only changed something in the existing files using the hooks and I don't know how to create a new subpage which is embedded into the main Wordpress layout. The plugin should also add a link to this subpage into the main navigation of the blog.

Ethan Brouwer Ethan Brouwer · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-08T07:26:58

I know it's pretty annoying but... You can't make a page on the actual blog in a plugin you make. you can however, make a shortcode like [contact-form] that will output the form. The user just needs to put that shortcode on a page and it will put the form there. Some reference for shortcodes can be found here: ShortCode API. But the main syntax for creating a shortcode is this:

//[foobar]
function foobar_func( $atts ){
 return "foo and bar";
}
add_shortcode( 'foobar', 'foobar_func' );

Just put the form code inside the function and change the name. You don't need attributes though. For your case you would just need to do something like this:

function contact_form(){
 //Code that process form
 //Actual code that outputs the form
}

And there you go! Thanks!

Ethan Brouwer

WordPress Plugin: How to create a new subpage?

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