Comments on: Deconstructed WP admin theme

By: tench

tench — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:53:57 +0000

any chance you could do an upgrade of this great style for it to work with wp 2.5? that would be super.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:15:29 +0000

I just had this - I think the unzipped folder has a different name.

I had to remove _alt from the end of the name then all was good.

By: Nate Steiner

Nate Steiner — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:29:42 +0000

@Dave: I’m not sure - although I noticed that I needed to shift-reload to see the change. Does that help at all?

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:15:33 +0000

I uploaded and activated, but got no change. What do you think the issue is?

Thanks.

By: emphbone

emphbone — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:10:32 +0000

minimalistic. nice..
allows greater creative customization for other developers.

By: Nate Steiner

Nate Steiner — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:41:11 +0000

Juice sent me a zip of her variation on this admin theme. It’s the same as mine, but with more subtle colors. You can download it here. Screenshots are here.

@Chip: Great ideas! Please let us know if you permit your version to be downloaded.

By: Chip Bennett

Chip Bennett — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:13:07 +0000

Great Admin theme! I love the simplicity.

I have taken it, and modified it to be somewhat consistent with my overall site style.

One note (perhaps intentional?) - the background url declarations are not correct, since the plugin is more deeply nested than the original admin.css file.

And, two suggestions (that I might try to take on myself):

1) Add in more annotations in the CSS file, explaining what the various ID and class declarations refer to (i.e. who would know that “zeitgeist” is the “Latest Activity” sidebar on the dashboard?).

2) Create an admin page (e.g. Presentation - Admin Theme) to allow for the various style specifications to be input more intuitively. (This might be a good opportunity for me to learn how to write admin pages, as well as how to modify CSS via such a page?)

By: Juice

Juice — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:17:29 +0000

I’m using this right now. I love it and I even modified the colors to my liking!

By: Leo Plaw

Leo Plaw — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:43:38 +0000

I got WP-Tiger theme to place with Admin Drop Menus. That certainly makes a world of difference. All of your WP navigation available immediately!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:10:34 +0000

Nice, was looking for something like this for my WP sites to cut down on the clutter in the admin section