Create Unique Styles for Your WordPress Admin Area
If you work in WordPress, you probably spend a lot of your day working in WordPress admin areas and jumping from site to site.
Every site has the same black and white admin style. Every site looks the same.
We had the same problem. We would get confused about which site we were editing.
Was this the live site? Or the staging site? Was this the PublishPress site, or another one of our plugin sites?
It was easy to get confused, and sometimes to make the wrong changes on the wrong site.
We're solving that with the “Admin Styles” feature in the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. This screenshot shows the new style for the PublishPress admin area. All the screens use the purple color of the PublishPress brand. For our staging site, we've chosen a different color from the PublishPress brand.
This next screenshot shows the admin area for the MetaSlider plugin, which has an orange brand.
The Admin Styles feature makes it really easy to change these colors. You can choose from several core WordPress options: Default, Light, Modern, Blue, Midnight, Sunrise, Ectoplasm, Ocean, Coffee.
You can also click the “Add Custom Style” button, which allows you to create your own color scheme.
The Custom Style Editor enables you to choose many different colors for features in the WordPress admin area. This screenshot below shows the “Blank Template” option. To save your custom colors, make sure to enter a name into the “Custom Style Name” field.
Alternatively, you can choose one of the pre-built custom styles that are provided with PublishPress Capabilities. This screenshot below shows the “Cherry” custom style.
This next screenshot shows the “Facebook Classic” custom style.
We hope this new Admin Styles feature adds some fun and freshness to your WordPress work. After testing this feature for several weeks, our team has found Admin Styles to be a big help. Now we always know what site we're working on, and the brighter colors make our admin tasks more enjoyable.
The Best Plugin to Control Your WordPress Users
PublishPress Capabilities enables you to customize what users see in every area of WordPress from editing posts and pages to admin menus, profile pages.
