16 Awesome WordPress Admin Themes and Plugins

Daily, we see blog posts written on WordPress Themes that 327 people have featured, 974 people have linked to 34,883 times. I’m sure you get the idea!

Well, it may seem we’re doing the same!!?! No, we’re not. Here, we are featuring 16 themes and plugins that can be applied to your WordPress admin interface to improve functionality and usability! We all know the standard look and features of the WordPress admin interface and it can be good to spice it up a little. With the following, you can do just that!

16 Awesome WordPress Admin Themes and Plugins

Fluency Admin 2.1

For WordPress 2.8.x

WP Tiger Administration

For WordPress 2.0.x

JS Style

For WordPress 1.5.3 – 2.0.3

Leopard Admin

Compatible up to: 2.5

WPhone

Requires WordPress Version: 2.1 or higher

Phone / Mobile Admin

• Requires WordPress Version: 2.2.2 or higher
• Compatible up to: 2.3

Baltic Amber

Ability to change colour scheme (even randomising it!).

• Requires WordPress Version: 2.5 or higher
• Compatible up to: 2.6

Planet X7

• Requires WordPress Version: 2.1
• Compatible up to: 2.3

Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu

Requires WordPress Version: 2.8 or higher

Lighter Menus

• Requires WordPress Version: 2.5 or higher
• Compatible up to: 2.6.5

Retro Dashboard

• Requires WordPress Version: 2.5 or higher
• Compatible up to: 2.5.1

Simple Tags

• Requires WordPress Version: 2.3 or higher
• Compatible up to: 2.8

WordPress Admin Bar

• Requires WordPress Version: 2.7 or higher
• Compatible up to: 2.8

Admin Management xtended (Scroll down for English version)

The plugin requires Wordpress 2.5+, supports 2.6 and 2.7 (from plugin version 2.0).

Allows you to edit certain post/page properties without going into them.

Pop Menus for WP-Admin

• Requires WordPress Version: 2.7 or higher
• Compatible up to: 2.8.3

Custom Login Page

• Requires WordPress Version: 2.0.2 or higher
• Compatible up to: 2.8

10 Responses to “ 16 Awesome WordPress Admin Themes and Plugins ”

1. 16 Awesome WordPress Admin Themes and Plugins | Web Designer Online says:

   October 27, 2009 at 10:27

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2. designfollow says:

   October 28, 2009 at 01:36

   thanks for this great post.

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   • Ahmed says:

     October 28, 2009 at 08:40

     No problem!!

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3. Rich Gubby says:

   October 28, 2009 at 13:51

   Here is another mobile one for you:
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mobile-admin/

   It’s called WordPress Mobile Admin and it mobilizes the WP control panel. It retains the familiar look and feel of the WP dashboard and provides the functionality you need on the go.

   Best of all, it works on every handset, so it doesn’t matter if you don’t have an iPhone or Blackberry!

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   • Ahmed says:

     October 29, 2009 at 08:52

     Awesome Rich! I like it.

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   October 30, 2009 at 04:26

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5. senlin says:

   October 30, 2009 at 14:39

   pretty cool, but quite a few of them are (very) outdated. Are there still folks (who would be a target group for an admin them) on 2.3???

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   • Ahmed says:

     October 31, 2009 at 15:10

     There sure are! Back in the early days of WordPress, there were many people who heavily modified their installations of Wordpress and now there sites have grown very large, it’s very difficult to upgrade to the latest Versions of Wordpress without spending 100’s of hours!

     Thanks for the comment!

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6. Creative Photography says:

   November 13, 2009 at 02:54

   Amazing themes…just awesome! Admin Drop Down Menu is super useful theme for averyony, who use wordpress…
   thank you for sharing! very nice article.

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   • Ahmed says:

     November 13, 2009 at 18:13

     Thanks for the comment!!

     Reply