How To Customize Look and Feel of the WordPress Administration

December 19, 2006 3:38 pm

WordPress is great, but like the default theme the administration look and feel gets old after a while. Fortunately, WordPress was built in a way that allows to to customize virtually all aspects of the software, including the administration look and feel. My favorite theme for the WordPress administration is WordPress Tiger. WordPress Tiger uses the very popular Fam Fam icons, whcih give it a very slick and easy to navigate interface. The best part is it’s as easy to install as any other WordPress plug in.

I. Copy the entire wp-admin-tiger folder (not just the contents) into your WordPress plugin directory wp-content/
plugins/. The file for the main plugin file (wp-admin-tiger.php) should be wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-tiger/wpadmin-
tiger.php.

II. Activate the plugin by logging into your WordPress administration area, going to ‘Plugins’, then clicking ‘Activate’ at
the end of the ‘Tiger Style Administration’ row.

III. At this point, you should see the new Administration look.

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