New WordPress Admin Design WP Back End Feedback

  • kohlmannj

    (@kohlmannj)


    20 years ago

    Woo, first post. Anyway, I’ve begun work on a new layout for WordPress’ back end (wp-admin) that, at least in my personal opinion, is much nicer to use than the current design. Here’s a screenshot of what it looks like and here’s a preliminary jab at the post page. (Just a note: this is all CSS so far, but there are some PHP code changes I’d like to make to edit-form.php.)

    Even if, say, the main WP developer (whoever you are…*waves*) doesn’t decide to accept this exact style sheet (obviously it’s too colorful and serif-less :-D), there is one key change that I think the WordPress GUI would benefit from. WordPress desperately needs a permanent sidebar. It may seem clich??, but sidebars truly reduce clutter; for example, placing all “advanced editing” options on post.php’s sidebar would remove the need for an advanced editing mode.

    One other little thing I’d like to see is a large title input box on the post/edit page. It’s always seemed that one of the most important attributes of a post has received far too little emphasis.

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  • danielck

    (@danielck)

    The new design looks great! Goes well with the Kubrick design!

    Will be great if there are WISYWIG buttons for the poste page!

    joeedmon

    (@joeedmon)

    I like it. Hope you finish it.

    Cypher

    (@cypher)

    Looks great. Would love to give it a try and dump the simple Admin screens now. ??

    Regards

    vkaryl

    (@vkaryl)

    I just want the Dashboard to refer to my particular system period. I don’t need all those silly boxes in the lower 2/3, and when I want “updates”, I come here from my permanent bookmark, not the Dashboard.

    All the Dashboard needs to be is a control panel for the pertinent site…. which is the local “owner” site, NOT WordPress. Yes, WP is great…. the Dashboard stuff, however, is overkill….

    jinsan

    (@jinsan)

    I’m hoping shuttle will really make things different for the admin side, it’s fairly easy to pretty things up – but shuttle should make it better (I hope!)

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Kohlmannj, I can see that you’re a little bit influenced by Tiger. ^_- It looks nice.

    takuya

    (@takuya)

    Looks nice! I think many WP users would want to give a try!!

    Thread Starter kohlmannj

    (@kohlmannj)

    Well, here’s what I have for now:
    https://homepage.mac.com/kohlmannj/.Public/wpadminredesign.zip

    Unpack the ZIP, dump the contents into your plugins folder, and activate the plugin.

    There are a couple issues so far:

    • “Updated” notification’s positioning is wonky
    • Problems with getting stuff on the sidebar
    • I’m not sure how I would be able to do some of these things without having to resort to absolute positioning, which is ucky since it doesn’t account for how high a content section can be, or modifying the PHP code in the admin pages, which is equally arbitrary in my opinion.
    • Also had a problem with the sidebar clearing the heading on the Write page (you’ll see some white space on the top). Any help with this would be appreciated.
    • Wasted Bandwidth; the plugin’s stylesheet *overlays* the WP admin stylesheet, so I can’t say that that’s extremely efficient, though hey, maybe it is.
    • Browser compatibility?
    • It works great in Safari and Firefox (except for PNG color mismatching, which I’ll fix by using GIFs), of course.
    • I haven’t even seen what murderous rendering errors emerge in IE 6. Help would be appreciated in this department as well if it actually means something to someone (read: nobody sane would use IE! :-P).

    Nevertheless, enjoy and gimmie some feedback 8-).

    Wow! That looks great! One of the main criticisms of the WP admin is that it is not fixed-width. I’ve hacked together a style at my site but yours is prettier. ?? I’ll give it a try! ??

    My theme based on a post by Scrivs: https://randywalker.net/archives/2005/02/28/wp-admin-theme-for-15-final/

    Thats really great!

    I was thinking about restyling my admin panel, but didn’t feel like putting the time into something that only I would be seeing.

    Tons of respect from me to you !

    Whoops. Hehe, your plugin isn’t compatible with my theme. Hehehe… whoops… hmm…

    Hmmm… the options page for WP-Contact-Form displays the menu twice…

    Wow…looking good, but geez, does EVERYTHING on the interweb have to be Apple glass? :p

    P.S. I like the way you’ve made this a plugin. Makes my hack look even kludgier! ??

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Randy, you need to put the options-contact-form.php file in /wp-admin/ not /wp-contact/. Don’t worry, it happens all the time.

    P.S. That is a great WP Admin mod. I love the Apple flavor, very Tiger-ish.

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