If you don’t like the look of the current WP backend be sure to check out SpotPress. Also check out the Tiger Admin, which is grrrrrreat. Update: Tiger is now a Greasemonkey script. ¶
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Oliver | June 9th, 2005 @ 9:55 pm |
That skin is awesome! Very much like the Tiger.
Roy Schestowitz | June 9th, 2005 @ 11:57 pm |
I customised my own, but here’s the snag:
You get accustomed to the new interface
A new version of WordPress comes out
You might have to re-install a new ’skin’
You rely on the ’skinners’ to carry on maintaining the project
That’s a common OSS pitfall.
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Greg | June 10th, 2005 @ 12:36 am |
Matt, any chance you could post a copy of the Tiger Admin zip file? The site seems to have disappeared.
Matt | June 10th, 2005 @ 12:42 am |
Whoa, the site seems totally hosed (photomatted?
, let me see if I can check it in to the theme repository. It just showed me a “freshly registered domain” page.
Matt | June 10th, 2005 @ 12:46 am |
Here you go: http://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/admin-tiger.zip
Matt | June 10th, 2005 @ 12:48 am |
And now it’s back, nevermind.
Greg | June 10th, 2005 @ 1:04 am |
Thanks Matt!
JalanSutera | June 10th, 2005 @ 3:37 am |
Whoa… it is very cool. Although I don’t have Tiger, I can feel the perception in my WordPress Admin. Thanks
Mathias Bynens | June 10th, 2005 @ 4:11 am |
In case the site goes down again — I put up a screenshot which I posted to the WordPress Flickr pool two days ago.
Mathias Bynens | June 10th, 2005 @ 4:13 am |
Oh, and did you see this alternative Tiger admin design? Pretty cool also.
Mathias Bynens | June 10th, 2005 @ 4:17 am |
Whoops, I of course ment to link the full-size screenshot… Sorry about that.
Mathias Bynens | June 10th, 2005 @ 4:25 am |
Full list of admin themes for WordPress. (Sorry for posting so many comments…)
Niall Kennedy | June 10th, 2005 @ 6:51 am |
Now all you need is a Liger design, bred for its skills in magic!
Tim Verpoorten | June 10th, 2005 @ 6:59 am |
I did an article on this today on my Surf-Bits.com and MacReviewCast.com websites. Thanks for the heads-up Matt!
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B. Adam | June 10th, 2005 @ 9:06 am |
I was so impressed with Tiger I went ahead and made a Greasemonkey script out of it — you know, for those who are as paranoid about messing with WP’s core files as I am
You’ll still need to upload Steve’s images to the /wp-admin/ folder, but that’s it. And in a way, Greasemonkey is better than a plugin because if you have multiple WP installs, you still only need to install Greasemonkey once.
Steve Ametjan | June 10th, 2005 @ 9:41 am |
Except for the fact that you still have to upload the images for each install.
B. Adam | June 10th, 2005 @ 10:41 am |
Yeah, I know.
But, if you wanted to get your hands dirty, you could go into the user-script and make the image URLs in the CSS all absolute URLs to some central location. That would fix that problem pretty easily. In fact, I might do that right now …
Kyle | June 10th, 2005 @ 10:50 am |
This is so rediculously nice, it’s not even funny. If anything shows the usefulness of clean markup in applications – this is it right here. Literally 15 seconds and I had this theme working.
Now one can only hope that in the next release of WP there is support for admin theming.
Mathias Bynens | June 10th, 2005 @ 1:51 pm |
Doo doo doo…
clint | June 10th, 2005 @ 3:49 pm |
I’ve got a simplified/stripped down version as well…
http://aenonfiredesign.com/blog/?p=53
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Mark J | June 10th, 2005 @ 9:22 pm |
Note that the Tiger Admin is now a plugin. No messing with core files at all. You just upload a directory to your plugins directory, activate the plugin, and it works. I love it!
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Todd | June 14th, 2005 @ 6:47 am |
The HTMLArea plugin doesn’t work well with it, because at narrow setting, the buttons overlap the right side of the interface.