How to create a custom section in Umbraco 6 and above?

I need to create a custom section in umbraco 6. I've seen many references like,

nothing works, I found a similar question in stackoverflow,

but the link provided as an answer is not loading.

Many blogs says, the method of creating custom sections in older versions of umbraco. That doesn't work on umbraco 6.

Can anyone help me with this.

Solution

The process of creating the custom section is as same as the links you provided.

Check whether you are logged in as a root user, who created the umbraco project in the Users section.

Also, Check the UmbracoUsers table in your umbraco database. Because the newly created section will only visible to the root user only.