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WordPress developers do many custom things with their plugins and themes above the basic functionality available at WordPress Codex. Adding a plugin settings link in the plugin page just beneath your plugin could be one of those pretty custom things. If you don’t know what I’m saying, have a look at highlighted sections in the below screenshot:
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\nI did a quick research and found this cool snippet that lets you add the plugin settings page link beneath your plugin on the plugins page in WordPress.<\/p>\n

function my_plugin_settings_link($links) { \r\n  $settings_link = '<a href=\"options-general.php?page=plugin-options.php<\/font>\">Settings<\/a>'; \r\n  array_unshift($links, $settings_link); \r\n  return $links; \r\n}\r\n$plugin = plugin_basename(__FILE__); \r\nadd_filter(\"plugin_action_links_$plugin\", 'my_plugin_settings_link' );<\/code><\/pre>\n
Just add the above code to your plugin PHP file, and don’t forget to replace the text in green to your plugin settings file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WordPress developers do many custom things with their plugins and themes above the basic functionality available at WordPress Codex. Adding a plugin settings link in the plugin page just beneath your plugin could be one of those pretty custom things. If you don’t know what I’m saying, have a look at highlighted sections in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-snippets"],"yoast_head":"\nAdd Plugin Settings link to plugin page in WordPress<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Easily add a plugin settings link beneath your plugin in WordPress plugin page using this small code snippet. 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