Wordpress How To: Easily make an admin panel for a plugin

I find the Admin panel the most tedious part of plugin development–even the slightest changes to the plugin requires major changes to the Admin panel, and it can be hard to remember every option you have in your plugin. However by following a few simple rules, your next Admin panel will be a breeze. Once you have the basic parts down, new options are just a cut and past away. One thing to note is that his Admin panel uses a few features that are best if repeated inside your plugin itself.

Please note that these same general techniques work outside of Wordpress also; the only thing that you would need to do is to change the way options are actually set. Also, I assume you already know HTML; this is not a basic HTML tutorial, but rather is a way to do a specific task.

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