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WordPress Customizing the WordPress Admin Area Admin Color Schemes What are Admin Color Schemes?

Barb Tai
Barb Tai
1,703 Points
Posted by Barb Tai
Barb Tai
1,703 Points

Why do we to spend so much time in customizing the Admin area?

It seems illogical at this stage. Perhaps it will make more sense further along.

Justin Black
Justin Black
24,793 Points
Justin Black
Justin Black
24,793 Points

It's wordpress, it will never make sense.

1 Answer

Franck Fremont
Franck Fremont
12,197 Points
Franck Fremont
Franck Fremont
12,197 Points

When you deal with many Wordpress sites as the same time, for customers for instance, it's going to be much more productive to find all the admin areas organized in the same way, your way.

You will save a lot of time.

If you have to demo your work to a customer, it's also cleaner and better looking. ;-)

So, it's, at the end, a quite important topic. ;-)

Guy Noda-Bailey
Guy Noda-Bailey
18,837 Points
Guy Noda-Bailey
Guy Noda-Bailey
18,837 Points

Ditto, The Admin UI for WordPress is so dense with information and options that my non-technical users find it daunting .

When setting up the admin area for clients (non-techie writers and editors), I hide anything that they don't need to use, and make the Admin as clear and simple as possible. My goal is always to make it as easy for the client as writing an email or sending a text.