Create Your Own Admin Color Scheme

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1. James Dimick (23 comments.) says:

   5/3/2008 at 5:30 pm

   Wow! I don’t think I could have even described my plugin that well. Great writeup! And thanks for featuring me!

   Your idea about being able to export schemes was actually an idea I had when I was making the plugin. I just wasn’t sure how I should go about it. I could set it up so it outputs it in plugin form (which is how it has to be for it to work with WordPress on it’s own). Or I could just export the raw CSS which then could maybe be imported back into my plugin via an upload feature or some such method. With that approach though the user on the receiving end of the scheme would have to either know how to make it into a plugin themselves or have to download my plugin (unless they already have it). Or even worse, somehow edit the core WordPress files so that scheme is used.

   So, I’m not entirely sure… Or, what if I added the ability for both? You could choose to export the scheme for use with my plugin OR a stand-alone version which outputs it as it’s own WordPress plugin.

   If I could get some feedback on what the desired method for implementing such a feature would be, I would be very happy to make it happen. I think it’s a wonderful idea!

   Again, thanks for talking about my plugin. I created it so people can easily utilize the new color scheme features in WordPress. Without the plugin, the color scheme functions aren’t exactly that useful to the not-so-technical among us. My plugin hopefully helps in that area somewhat.
2. Neil (30 comments.) says:

   5/3/2008 at 8:53 pm

   Great job folks
3. selif (1 comments.) says:

   5/4/2008 at 2:16 am

   I upgraded a test blog to 2.5 and I think that this is a good step in the right direction. Thing is, I don’t get why they had to go changing the layout of the Admin pages in the first place. Yeah, I’ll appreciate being able to put the colors back the way they were but what I’d really appreciate even more is the ability to change the layout of the admin pages back to what they were in 2.3.3. This one flaw in the new version is the biggest deal breaker in the upgrade department. I’ll eventually have to do it but I’m going to keep liking the idea less and less until there’s an Admin theme that can make 2.5 look like 2.3.3
4. Dalton (1 comments.) says:

   5/4/2008 at 10:51 am

   Interesting… I wish I had known about this last week when I built a custom plugin just to change my admin color scheme! It would have made my work a lot easier.
5. Alejandro Martínez (3 comments.) says:

   5/4/2008 at 12:19 pm

   WPAdminThemes.com is better =)
6. Robert (1 comments.) says:

   5/4/2008 at 3:06 pm

   Has anyone created a WordPress theme based off of 2.5 admin? I love the new look and feel.
7. John (35 comments.) says:

   5/5/2008 at 9:07 am

   Just… what… I… always… wanted… … ?!?
8. Michel (3 comments.) says:

   5/9/2008 at 6:05 am

   Great plugin!

   Still, as many others, I am waiting for a good, reliable way to change the whole WP Admin look & feel back to 2.3.3. I don’t like 2.5.x Admin and there thousands of other users of WP which do not like it, too.

   Some things in 2.5 are better, actually, but the ‘Write’ page (Write new post/page) is almost terribly redesigned. Categories and Tags at the bottom, un-needed scrolling up & down, empty sidebar, reduced screen size, inability to re-arrange the panels (tags, categories, date&time, etc.)… the list is endless…

   Currently, you cannot actually create an Admin WP theme, which can safely put categories & tags to the sidebar, or make re-arrangement of panels again available. You’d have to edit core files, to achive this, and this ain’t a good idea…

   And looks like Matt & Co. do not like the idea of putting cats & tags to the sidebar, as a few bugs/enhancement requests, which were related to this, were simply deferred…
9. James Dimick (23 comments.) says:

   5/9/2008 at 11:02 pm

   Hey Jeff and everyone, I just updated the plugin to version 2.0. The plugin now has import/export functionality and I have also fixed several bugs. Please give the new version a shot and see if it works. Let me know what y’all think.

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