 Right, welcome back to our channel. Thank you for the previous comments. Thank you for the questions and I hope that we can be able to move with our plugin going ahead. And right now I'm having a bit of an eyesore, having all this information coming in. I can't see my menus and options right here. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to create a custom page so that we can be able to handle all our information right there so that we can be able to set all our settings that we need. Remember that we're going to be making a plugin that sends information once the order process is done will come us. So what I want to do is I'm doing add a menu page that is part of the functionality that WordPress gives to us. And then afterwards I'll use what we call the settings API and basically what this is in itself in itself is an inbuilt API that you can tap into to make settings like this that you can store in your database and you can be able to retrieve and use as you will to do and depending on your functionality you can be able to just use that functionality that WordPress gives you. So let's dive right into that. I'm going to open up where we had stopped off on our plugin and what I'm going to do is I'm just going to comment out these add-in needs that this function will still be here but it won't be called. And if we reload our page here we're going to get all our functionality back in here and I think we are good to go. So first things first we're going to add a new menu page and you realize that this particular add menu page functionality of WordPress has a number of arguments that I needed in the page title, the menu title, the capabilities, a slug and what is going to happen when this page is when this particular function is called and then you can have an icon that sits right on the side. So most of these I explained right here the parameters I explained for that particular action and then you have an example of how this can be used. Now if you look at WordPress in itself you have a number of things going on here you have the course the media you have users tools and settings and these have positions according to these numbers that you do see here. So I want us to have our page it's going to happen right after settings so I'm going to look for a number that is in between 80 and 99 so that we can just place that there our page there and we're given an example of how this can actually be run and so I'm just going to copy and paste this in our plugin and then we can be able to to start doing a number of things so what I'm going to do is I'm going to just add a piece I'd say this is our sms plugin settings we just call this sms plugin because that's our title and if you look at what these marks are they just allow to allow us to have this translated for example we have a text domain here we did not give this setting in in in our plugin as we were starting it up but this allows us to translate our plugin in a number of languages so we're going to have this call and sms plugin settings this is going to appear here in our page we'll be able to see it manage options is our capabilities and this is only going to happen when someone has administrative rights so that's what this is saying and the next thing that we are going to do is if we look at what we were required of in the settings here is we have the page title the menu title the capabilities we had a slug and then we have a function that that that is supposed to be called then we have the icon and then the position so if we look at this number we talked about having something that's in between 80 and 99 um for the icon we're not we're going to use our dash icons these are also in build font icons that are part of wordpress so all you need to do is you go to google and google for dash icons and i have this already embedded in my history so we are spoiled for choice um uh for the icon that we used and i think uh for now i'm going to go with something like um something that looks more messagey in in type so i'm just going to go with this and we have we just need to copy only this text that we do have and when we throw it in our in our plugin here we're going to have dash the dash high contest testimonial and if we look at uh the only thing that's left is having a function that is going to be called uh for us so the function that we're going to have is going to be called uh create menu page that will be our function so what i'm going to do quickly here is create this function that does nothing so so um this is our menu page title this is our page title uh that we're going and then we have we're just going to try to change this slug and call it a sms plugin um as the php the php so when we save this and come to our page and um just reload we're going to see something that's happening here so remember our little sms plugin we have it right here and on top of our if we click on it we're actually going to have this showing up we have a fresh clean page that we can use here and then we have a very nice icon showing up here from our dash icons which looks similar to all of these so i think we are good to go from here so let me just try to call in this particular function in here instead of our create menu page let me replace this functionality and see what's going to happen so if i reload we call our api and voila we're able to see our information and everything is nice and neat and clean good job uh we'll be able to move on from here thank you for watching this don't forget to subscribe and like this video if you do love it and you can ask a number of questions maybe you can point out where what direction this particular um tutorial or plugin series should go thank you bye