http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/css-greyscaper/

http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-admin-color-schemes/

Again, just thought you might be interested.

This is quite the coincidence… I was just finishing up a plugin related to this very subject when you posted this. It’s not in the repository yet (still waiting for approval) but here is a link to it in the meantime:

http://www.jamesdimick.com/creations/easy-admin-color-schemes/

It hasn’t been well-tested on many setups yet, but from the testing I have done it all works perfectly.

Just thought you might be interested…

It’s bold, it’s garish, it’s sooo 1996, and it’s certainly not the best example of that the Color Scheme mechanism can accomplish, but it does exist, at least.

This only allows you to re-arrange sections on the main dashboard page. I’m looking for something to allow me to re-arrange the various sections on the WRITE page; like you could in 2.3

I hate being forced to scroll.

The sidebar manager for instance, could be a LOT better…

I’ve posted my 2 cents about them before though, I guess I could look into colors. Pretty is nice, but not needed.

It hasn’t been tested extensively (at all ), but it worked for me. If anyone is interested feel free to email me for now and I’ll send a copy.

It’s here: http://orangescale.net/goodies/dashmatt/

Thanks to Planetozh for the tutorial!

I’ve been using Dean’s Fluency plugin http://deanjrobinson.com/projects/fluency-admin/ on some of my blogs and so far it has worked well. I like the grays. Great plugin Dean.

Maybe widgets are confused, but I don´t use them.

With a combination of Andy Staines’ admin menus plugin, custom admin CSS from Ozh, and the Dashboard Widget Manager from Viper007Bond, now I can make the admin section look and (more importantly) work as I want it to.

Maybe part of the disconnect is that we WordPress users have gotten used to flexibility on the front end and want to see it on the back end as well.

That is to say, this is a good problem to have.

http://deanjrobinson.com/projects/fluency-admin/

@Ryan, Fluency already supports Ozh’s admin drop down menus, and support for Yellow Swordfish’s plugin will be in the next version.

I respectfully must disagree, Matt. For the first time I find myself forgetting to assign categories to posts because the categories are out of sight and two blocks of admin-stuff below the writing area. To get there I have to scroll, whereas before the categories were right in the sidebar. That’s inefficient on two levels (having to scroll and having to go back to edit posts when I’ve forgotten to add a category).

Just from a design point of view, the categories list is a narrow, tall element, but it’s been allocated to a slim, wide space. What a waste of admin space! The sidebar space is now taken up with the “related” items which so far I’ve never used. I can’t imagine any circumstances in which I’m likely to need to go direct from writing a post to editing all tags, for example.

In light of all this, the ability to change the colors on the admin area seems like a monumental waste of time.

The admin looks pretty, but I think it needs rearrangement. Hopefully there will be plugins that make the admin area more workable.

And my wife has been trying, without success, to upload an image for over a week now. I prefer to FTP images so I hadn’t even tried to figure it out myself. When I took a look this morning I had about six false starts before I managed to get a picture into a post. I can’t imagine how newbies would fare.

I’d like to move from wpg2

Cheers

It just adds a visited link color to the Fresh scheme to make it easier to see which news items you’ve already read in the dashboard.

That reminds me of something, off topic and this isn’t really the place for it, but: can you please get someone to change the CSS for the wordpress.org support forums so you can see which links you’ve visited? It drives me nuts trying to remember what I’ve looked at when I’m browsing through threads trying to find solutions to problems.

I use it myself and it’s a real click-saver IMHO.