Restyle Wordpress admin interface

Restyle Wordpress admin interface

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The author has marked this style as obsolete.

No longer works, as the Wordpress dashboard has changed considerably. Just screws things up now. Maybe someday I will fix it up.

How to install

• Install Stylish plus Kallout for Firefox (or from here for just Stylish or for other Mozilla apps). If you have Stylish already, make sure you have JavaScript enabled.
• You need Firefox with Stylish to use this style. Get Firefox, then install Stylish plus Kallout (or just Stylish), then come back here to install this style.
• Install with Stylish
• Update installed version in Stylish
• Load as user script for Greasemonkey and Opera users.

Created by Dman. Last updated Apr 15 2008.

This is a style I wrote to restyle the Wordpress Admin interface after they redid it recently. I'm not a huge fan of the new style, and it had many problems that I disliked. This style both makes the new style more manageable, and slims it down a lot. I incorporated a few things I've seen around, such as removing the page title (pretty obvious what it is if you are the owner...), and making it what *I* wanted. I will be updating it as I take the time to make it better and change more things.

Note that some of the things it does rely on properties of more advanced browsers. I use Firefox 3 beta 5, so I know it works there. I doubt it should have too much trouble anywhere else, and should degrade gracefully.

The CSS is commented to show what each change does, so you can change it as you see fit.

Here are the changes I made:

-Remove Page title
-Remove 'Support' tab
-Remove the 'You are using a theme' text
-Change the top title to matching colors instead of orange
-Get rid of the footer.
-Get rid of favicons in the 'Hot Links'. They look terrible.
-Get rid of the 'Paid Upgrades' link
-Remove 'New page link. Still accessible from posting page.
-Remove the (again) Repeated current page title.
-Bold the title of the current page.
-Get rid of the background color on the summary, disinguish with text weight.
-Remove the Recent comment blockquote
-Style the recent comment meta as normal item (perfect now! no distinction at all from normal)
-Style the 'Write post' button to fit in
-Remove the little smiley face stats tracker
-Less of the 'Hot Links'
-Remove RSS icon in incoming links
-Hover color on links fits in.
-More distinctive 'Dashboard' link
-Underline 'Dashboard' on hover
-Fix comments page search box
-Remove the underline on the 'Available Themes' anchor on the design page. Not needed, as it is insignificant.
-Black borders on buttons
-Some possible future changes (still commented out at the moment. Not working at all.)

Note that for the moment the real changes are mostly concentrated on the Dashboard page. The other pages are considerably cleaner as well, but are not modified specifically yet. That is in progress. A few of the minor pages have little problems that I have yet to fix. In normal usage this is not evident.

Enjoy!

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