Hi there,

I was wondering if a wordpress guru point me in the right direction please?  I have done quite a bit of googling on this over the last couple of weeks but dont seem to have found a conclusive answer or solution.

What I have been trying to do is find a way to create a static/physical page which will display some of our own forms that we want to run.

It is pretty basic stuff like a form that we fill in which logs the time we have spent on work for a client, who the client was and things like that. This uses php and connects to a table which I will create.  I know you can install a plug in that lets you add php code to a page, but I thought a better way to do it would be to create my own physical pages and just link to them via the nav (these will only be accessible by registered users, so will probably try to reuse the session that gets created when user logs in).

I have sort of found a way to add a link in the main navigation to a static page, by adding it to the functions.php file in the theme, but the link only shows up on 1 page i.e. when you click on the link the resulting page doesnt contain that link on the nav.

I guess the main questions are:

How do I create a static page which uses our current theme which I can put my own code on to run the form (as outlined above)?

How do I then add a constant link to this page in the main nav (was I on the right path with the functions.php file and did something wrong)?

And probably, is this even the best way to go about this?

I am still very new to wordpress, and finding my way around, so any tips or pointers are greatly appreciated.

Thanks