# Admin Pages

An admin page adds a page of its own to the WordPress admin menu and shows
one or more Views on it, whatever post type or source each reads. The Views
stay fully interactive there: tables, boards and feedback lists edit, move
and add items exactly as their layouts allow.

## The Admin pages screen

**Admin pages** lists every admin page with its name, menu title, the number
of Views on it and its status, **Active** or **Disabled**. Its search and page
are part of the address. **Create admin page**, here or on View's Start
screen, asks for a name and creates an empty page; before the first one, the
screen says there are no admin pages yet and offers the same button.

## The admin page editor

The editor works like the [View editor](/docs/view/views/view-configuration.md):
the center previews the page with its Views as tabs, shown once it has more
than one, and the inspector on the right has a tab for each View on the page.
A page without Views says so and offers **Add View**.

- **Add View** adds a View to the page. The new entry starts with the first
  saved View; choose another in **View**.
- Each entry has arrows to move it backward or forward, **Name**, which
  replaces the View's own name on its tab ("Leave empty to use the selected
  View name."), **View**, the View to show, and **Remove View**.

The toolbar starts with the settings button, which switches the inspector to
**Admin page settings**, and **Delete admin page**, which removes the page
after you confirm; the Views on it are kept. **Discard** returns the page to
its saved state and **Save** stores it; both stay disabled until you change
something. Until then your changes stay in the editor's tab, and closing or
reloading the page asks first.

## Admin page settings

### General

- **Name** names the page in the admin pages list and in the editor.
- **Menu title** is the label of the menu item and the heading of the page.
- **Menu position** "Controls where the page appears in the WordPress admin
  menu." Lower numbers sit higher. WordPress places Dashboard at 2, Posts at
  5, Media at 10, Pages at 20, Comments at 25, Appearance at 60, Plugins at
  65, Users at 70, Tools at 75 and Settings at 80. The default, 0, puts the
  page at the top of the menu.
- **Dashicon** chooses the menu icon from WordPress's Dashicons; the default
  is the generic admin icon.
- **Enable admin page**: "A disabled admin page stays saved but is not
  registered in WordPress."

### Conditions

"Choose when this admin page is registered in WordPress." When the
conditions do not match the current user, the page has no menu item and
cannot be opened. See [Conditions](/docs/view/views/conditions.md).

## In wp-admin

An admin page is a top-level menu page that only administrators, users with
`manage_options`, can open. It shows the menu title as its heading and its
Views as tabs when there is more than one, each with its layouts as tabs of
its own:

- A View or layout whose conditions exclude the user is left out.
- Default post screen layouts are left out.
- The page remembers the View last selected in this browser, and the address
  of the page records the selected View and layout, so a reload returns to
  them.

Admin pages exist only in wp-admin; to show a View elsewhere, use its
[shortcode](/docs/view/views/general.md#shortcode).