Thanks, I had just found that tutorial and was coming on here to mentioned that I did and in testing I had learned they only went one level deep. I can work with that, most definitely.
Thanks for the response. I am trying to move fast with this, so I might have more questions, but so far, once I got out of the starting blocks, things are moving right along.
What’s interesting to me is, that tab system I posted above, the entire admin area is created by just defining the classes and relationships between them, my software then creates all the database tables, CRUD code, and HTML code to manage it. What you are seeing is the end result. The system is 22 years old and in some major need of replacement. That is what I am planning on doing with Piklist! And so far I am excited about what it can do. I just need to learn all it’s nuances.
And once I do, I will be putting together a presentation to give to my local WordPress Meetups as none of us out here have used it before. I want to spread the love so to speak.

So, the issue that is causing your settings page to not work is not related to my WordPress version (5.4), it’s the PHP version, it does not work with 7.4, I stepped it back to 7.3 and the settings page works now. You may have already noted somewhere that it does not work with 7.4, I might have missed it.

That fixed the issue of your settings page not working, but I am still having some basic issues getting your example code to work. I am able to create a menu item that does display a page, by placing the following code in my plugin code:

add_filter(‘piklist_admin_pages’, ‘my_expo_pages’);

function my_expo_pages($pages) {

$pages[] = array(
‘page_title’ => ‘Expo Admin Area’
,’menu_title’ => ‘Expo’
,’menu_slug’ => ‘expo_admin_area’
,’capability’ => ‘manage_options’
);

return $pages;
}

but when I try and add some html to that page, it does not display. Nothing I do within the /parts folders seem to work. Just the items I place in my plugin folder. In an earlier test, I was able to create a CPT, but that code was in my plugin file, not the folder structure. Here is some very simple code in the /parts/admin-pages folder that does not work:

<?php
/*
Page: expo_admin_area
*/
?>

<p>
This is a simple test
</p>

So what am I doing wrong? This looks stupid simple to not be working. I did add the Classic Editor into my site as mentioned in another persons issue, did not make a difference.

This plugin looks awesome and I have so much I want to do with it, but I can’t seem to get out of the starting blocks.

Thanks,
Jim

Here is what the settings page looks like