Add a top-level menu page in the ‘utility’ section.

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.

• add_menu_page()

$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).

$callback callable Optional

The function to be called to output the content for this page.

Default: ''

$icon_url string Optional

The URL to the icon to be used for this menu.

Default: ''

string The resulting page's hook_suffix.

File: wp-admin/includes/deprecated.php. View all references

function add_utility_page( $page_title, $menu_title, $capability, $menu_slug, $callback = '', $icon_url = '') {
	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '4.5.0', 'add_menu_page()' );

	global $_wp_last_utility_menu;

	$_wp_last_utility_menu++;

	return add_menu_page($page_title, $menu_title, $capability, $menu_slug, $callback, $icon_url, $_wp_last_utility_menu);
}