I want to change the Admin Theme

  • I would like to change the Admin Theme, that is the HTML “look and feel” when administering a WP site, i.e. SITE/wp-admin.php .

    It would be great if the Admin Theme actually were a theme (so I am not exactly using the word “theme” correctly here).

    It looks to me, though, that the HTML for the Admin pages are embedded within multiple PHP files, so it will not be a quick nor perhaps easy thing to do. But before I get into that, I will first ask:

    Is this the correct forum to discuss this?

    While I wait for a few answers to that question let me explain one really quick reason for why I want to change the Admin HTML.

    When editing a POST, PAGE or FILE the font text is so large, and there is so much empty space, that one is forced to constantly scroll up and down the page to get the TEXTAREA fully within the screen and to reach the SAVE, PUBLISH or UPDATE buttons. Even with a high resolution screen I find myself spending more time SCROLLING THE PAGE than I can stand.

    What I want is to have an edit page that has the textarea and the save/update button all fitting within a 1024×768 display.

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  • Anonymous User

    (@anonymized-473288)

    Do a web search (for example in Google) on:

    WordPress admin themes

    You shouldn’t have to do much with the HTML. Most of what you’re describing should take place in the CSS files. The CSS files are located at wp-admin/css/

    Thread Starter gajennings

    (@gajennings)

    Of course I did a web search. What I did miss though, was that much of what I want to do may be done by CSS. That will not be all if, for example, I want to change the placement (position) of the, for example, “Update File” button in /theme-editor.php. (It is done by an ‘echo’ statement embedded within the PHP.)

    Thanks.

    I used a plugin called “Earth tomes” to change my dashboards look. No particular reason – my previous theme used the same colors so it fit. It should be on the plugins page if you want to look at it. Simply FTP’s one file and activated it.

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