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You can use sidebar widget of this plugin or link in menu.
if you want to link “New Message” you can add https://example.com/SLUG-OF-FEP-PAGE/?fepaction=newmessage in your menu link.

If you want in template add

<a href="'.get_bloginfo("wpurl").'/SLUG-OF-FEP-PAGE/?fepaction=newmessage">New Message</a>

Change SLUG-OF-FEP-PAGE with your Front End PM page slug

Yeah i know but I have to include your system into an self developed sidebar menu.

Of course with your code I can add a message link. But What I want is to include a status link where I will get a hightlight like “(1)” if there are unread messages. In fact i want to print out the number of unread messages.

have you tried widgets of this plugin?

of course but they are improper for my case.

Wondering why you didn’t implement some functions to get new message count etc. which is a basic idea in my opinion.

All needed functions are there in fep-class.php

if you want new message count in anywhere add following code

$fep = new clFEPm();
$newMgs = $fep->getNewMsgs();

Now add $newMgs where you want count.

Could you explain more in detail, how to get a link in a menu, for example just saying: “Messages(1)” if there’s one new message, or “Messages” if there’s no new messages?

I have no idea where to put this code you’re providing above ??