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Fancy Admin UI

Description

WordPress’s admin themes are great, but we wanted to take it a step further. This is a clean blue/gray theme by default for the admin panel that simplifies the interface and makes things more accessible for our customers. Customize your colors by visiting Settings > General

If there are any features you’d like to see or bugs with other plugins – visit the support tab and let me know.

Improvements made

  • Blue AdminBar for front and backend of site
  • Soft Gray menu
  • Larger Calls to Action within Edit screens
  • Ability to change custom primary/secondary colors
  • Mobile Menu compatibility

Screenshots

  • Screenshot of the basic admin panel

Installation

  1. Upload fancy-admin-ui to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Set your custom colors via Settings > General

Be sure to check your login page because the default WP logo is a light blue and doesn’t match. I did wrap the standard WP logo in a white rounded rectangle so it should show up without any issue on any color.

FAQ

Installation Instructions
  1. Upload fancy-admin-ui to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Set your custom colors via Settings > General

Be sure to check your login page because the default WP logo is a light blue and doesn’t match. I did wrap the standard WP logo in a white rounded rectangle so it should show up without any issue on any color.

Reviews

July 18, 2021
Its good style and nice but need update, there is some conflict with the CSS, please update the plugin as 4 years is long and keep it up 🙂
March 13, 2018 2 replies
Beautiful admin interface. Thanks Bob Orchard
December 20, 2017
This is the best Admin UI theme I’ve seen for Wordpress. Very clean and minimal and does a nice job at improving the Wordpress backend experience. I would highly suggest.
September 3, 2016
Super Clean and beautiful.
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Contributors & Developers

“Fancy Admin UI” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

2.1

Fixed menu notificaton tag position, added some more styles, fixed a few UI bugs spotted by users, and refactored the settings file to remove some PHP 7 warnings.

2.0

Fixed mobile menu issues, refactored how styles are embedded, reduced how much the secondary color is used to keep things consistent, fixed other css bugs

1.1

Fixed styling issue that appeared with WordPress v. 4.2.2, fixed incorrect file reference for colorpicker, and cleaned up metabox styling

1.0

Added ability to change the primary and secondary color via the WP Admin Settings page

0.2

Added updates to style Visual Composer elements

0.1

Cleaning up code, reduced sidebar menu item height

0.1 Beta

Initial beta version for release. The responsive portion of the nav isn’t yet addressed.