We noticed the same so developed the Easy Blogging Admin theme.
Of course, it’s not available for free though :/ But it should be a lot cheaper very soon as an individual download (rather than having a full membership)
I have noticed more people interested in White Labeling. There is a plugin for that and code snippets for the functions.php to White Label your own backend.
However, I do agree, there should be more options for users wanting a different WordPress admin panel.
Wow, that’s are really nice admin theme. I home more people will go that path in the future. But that will require simplification of admin themeifiying for sure.
This is a goldfield waiting to be tapped and I think this post might just unleash a flood of activity. Hoping I get off my rear end enough to capitalize on it as well!
I think one of the key problems is supporting the continuously updated nature of wordpress. It’s tiring supporting a free product and updating it each time wp releases another version.
WordPress killed admin themes when they decided it would be a good idea to redesign the backend every other release. End of story. Who was going to put unpaid time into learning to manipulate twenty-odd pages of admin (not to mention plugin settings pages) if six months later they were going to have to do it all again?
I am really glad Fluency is still around, though. It made 2.0 usable for me, and for that I am forever grateful.
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We noticed the same so developed the Easy Blogging Admin theme.
Of course, it’s not available for free though :/ But it should be a lot cheaper very soon as an individual download (rather than having a full membership)
I have noticed more people interested in White Labeling. There is a plugin for that and code snippets for the functions.php to White Label your own backend.
However, I do agree, there should be more options for users wanting a different WordPress admin panel.
Wow, that’s are really nice admin theme. I home more people will go that path in the future. But that will require simplification of admin themeifiying for sure.
This is a goldfield waiting to be tapped and I think this post might just unleash a flood of activity. Hoping I get off my rear end enough to capitalize on it as well!
I think one of the key problems is supporting the continuously updated nature of wordpress. It’s tiring supporting a free product and updating it each time wp releases another version.
WordPress killed admin themes when they decided it would be a good idea to redesign the backend every other release. End of story. Who was going to put unpaid time into learning to manipulate twenty-odd pages of admin (not to mention plugin settings pages) if six months later they were going to have to do it all again?
I am really glad Fluency is still around, though. It made 2.0 usable for me, and for that I am forever grateful.
Fluency looks awesome. Probably much easier for making quick changes
Not necessarily a theme, but it neatens up my admin and provides a nice bit of color.
Ozh’s admin dropdown menu: http://planetozh.com/blog/my-p.....-down-css/
I think these have not been created for a while (there used to be one called tiger something? Among others) due to how good WP looks these days.
If so many people are after one, I will make one when I have time… but what is it they want? I love the current theme of WP3.0.
Just because it looks good, does not mean that people do not want a variety.
Adminimize not Adminize
Fixed. Thanks for the catch.