WordPress Admin Panel Skin
I’ve recently got around to hacking up my WordPress admin panel’s CSS to make something new.
Not anything better by any means, as I didn’t move much around, but I made it look cool for myself, here using Firefox at 1680*1050. It’s 95% done, the other 5% is on the “Write” page at the bottom. As you’ll see on the top part of the writing page, I’ve editted some images for the DBX drag and drop system WP have implemented, and the 5% not done entails more of that.
So, without any more suspense, here are some full sized screen shots (click for full view):
Dashboard:
Writing a Post:
Managing Posts:
Presentation (Yes, it’s Cutline):
Plugins:
For any of those interested, I just opened up Coda and navigated to http://yoursite.tld/wp-admin/wp-admin.css and started hacking away.
When doing something like this, I of course had Photoshop open for colour choices and gradient making (as well as some image editing) but ColorZilla really helps, not because of it’s eye dropper, but because it gives you the id/class and the element you’re on.
If it’s in demand for any reason, I’d be glad to release this publicly. Keep in mind it’s meant for Firefox, because I used some round corner cheating CSS, but IE users won’t notice (they don’t care about the browsing or display anyways) a difference.
Edit: I do have to give it up to say I was inspired by Devlounge’s admin panel which I’m assuming AJ did. I’d wanted to do this for some time, but this really motivated me 
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Naresh
June 25th, 2007 at 12:00 AM
I can’t wait to see some of those posts currently in drafts.
Awesome theme! + that firefox extension is exactly what I was looking for.
cherries
June 25th, 2007 at 12:49 AM
fukkin sexy Connor.
Josh Buckley
June 25th, 2007 at 3:12 PM
Looks really hot
Mike
June 26th, 2007 at 12:24 AM
Good job its a great looking skin! Perhaps you can post more of your plugins page or post a list of all the plugins that you use here arround the site!
L3ggy
June 27th, 2007 at 4:40 PM
Nice skin Connor
You have one HUGE screen.
AJ
June 29th, 2007 at 7:27 AM
Heh, thanks for the plug. I’m still working on the Devlounge backend - hopefully when I’m all done it will be cleaned up nice. Nice job on this though
David Airey :: Creative Design ::
July 10th, 2007 at 7:53 AM
Nice work, Connor.
Reminds of the Tiger Admin Panel I once tried out.
Jermayn Parker
July 23rd, 2007 at 3:27 AM
any idea on how to get the news and events from dashboard off???
taggy
August 11th, 2007 at 4:07 AM
hey ! lovely admin themes.can i download them ? i would love to use !
Nick
March 11th, 2008 at 9:07 AM
good job with the layouts!
Greetz
nick
joe
April 18th, 2008 at 4:44 PM
I have skin problems , and this site I found real advise !
tema indir
July 11th, 2008 at 9:29 PM
thankss Nice skin Connor
kene
July 11th, 2008 at 9:33 PM
thanks a lot..
turkportal
July 11th, 2008 at 9:34 PM
Nice work, Connor.
Reminds of the Tiger Admin Panel I once tried out.
Dermaroller
October 10th, 2008 at 4:47 AM
Great stuff. Excellent Skin.
Wish I was able to do this stuff.
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