Green wp-admin

January 3, 2006 - 8:41 pm EST

While this project took far less time than my first wp-admin redesign:”WP-admin Re-design(The first wp-admin redesign)”:http://www.greenkri.com/?p=512, I am quite happy with the results:”green_wp-admin.zip(The ZIP file of the changed files.)”:http://greenkri.com/play/green_wp-admin.zip. I like the blue of WordPress; blue is a nice color, but I wanted to do something more personalized to myself. Since green is my favorite color, it was an easy choice to alter the colors to various shades of green. I think later I may tweak and play a little more to personalize the design, but I’m happy with what I have so far.

I must say that the new WordPress 2.0 wp-admin layout in general seems to be much more polished than it was in previous versions.

I’ll admitt this small project was really easy. It was just a matter of finding the references to the various blue colors in the wp-admin.css, and changing them to their green counterparts. I got a bit stopped up when I looked at the write post page, because I couldn’t find where the color was set for the drop down menus.

After a minute I realized that the background was set using an image, along with the minus and plus signs to open and close the boxes. It also took a minute to figure out how to change the colors of the upload box. It was set in an iframe, so no wonder there was no style information for it in wp-admin.css.

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