Hello! I tried to ask this before, but I learned I was not clear enough on what I was asking.
So my client is a major magazine, published monthly, in my city. They have a section dedicated to puzzles, and every month they post the answers on their website. There is currently a bank of answers going all the way back to 2004.
The design I was given shows the main portion of content as dynamically produced blocks displaying the answers to each specific puzzle. On the right hand side is a section of the current year’s months, and underneath it a selection option to change years. THESE ARE NOT ARCHIVES.
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Each month is a “post” and when one is clicked, the content boxes in the main section should update with the corresponding answers.
Therefore on the backend, I would like to create a “Puzzles” section within the admin menu of the dashboard. When navigated to, you will be given a selection of years to choose from, with the top option being the most current year (this should update automatically at the beginning of every year).
When the year is selected, the user should then be sent to a new screen displaying the months of the year, where they can then click through the month to fill answers out. When a month is selected, then a third and final screen is displayed with a form to fill out the answers that will be displayed on the frontend.
I am not a beginner, but I have not come across a necessity to do this before. If someone can point me in the right direction on how to create WordPress UI Menus in the backend, that would be greatly appreciated.
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The [add_menu_page()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_menu_page/) function will provide you with an empty admin page that you can add whatever markup you’d like to it. Plus it adds its link to the left-hand admin menu and you can control its position, and you can restrict its access by user role.