6 Wordpress Admin Plugins
These Wordpress admin plugins can help turn your Wordpress admin area into whatever you like. Most people just don’t like how Wordpress looks in their admin area. This is one reason that these plugins have been created and another is that Wordpress 2.7 has a whole new facelift.
These are just some of the admin plugins that I have used in recent years. I have found that I have liked them for the most part. However, I have come to love Wordpres 2.7 so I do not use any of these currently. Most of them tried to update for Wordpress 2.7, but you’ll just have to try them out to see if they work.
Wordpress Admin Plugins
Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu – The lazy and the productive will love it : all admin links available in a neat CSS driven drop down menu. No need to click on “Manage” then “Pages” to edit pages, go to any admin page from any admin page.
Lighter Menus – Lighter Menus creates Drop Down Menus instead of the regular Admin menus for WordPress, so that you can browse items with one click. Fast to load, adaptable to color schemes, Lighter Menus comes with silk icons, a option page, and a design that fits within the Wordpress interface taking the less room possible.
Admin Management Xtended – As a whole, the new WordPress Admin panel is organized fairly well, however when it comes to editing posts or pages quickly without having to open each post or page in a new tab or window, it isn’t a very efficient process. For those who are using WordPress as a CMS, it’s important to be able to manage contents easily and quickly. That’s what this plugin helps to do.
Dashboard Editor – This plugin allows you to add whatever you want to the Wordpress dashboard through PHP and HTML even Sidebar Widgets. You can also wipe the entire dashboard or individually remove some of the more irritating sections like the Dev news, Planet Wordpress and the getting started section.
Adminimize – Visually compresses the administratrive header so that more admin page content can be initially seen. Also moves ‘Dashboard’ onto the main administrative menu because having it sit in the tip-top black bar was ticking me off and many other changes in the edit-area. Adminimize is a WordPress plugin that lets you hide ‘unnecessary’ items from the WordPress administration menu, submenu and even the ‘Dashboard’, with forwarding to the Manage-page.
Leopard Admin – “Leopard Admin” is a plugin that skins the administration panel of the popular blogging platform, WordPress. Inspired by Mac OSX Leopard, this plugin uses the power and flexibility of CSS to overlay the style on top of the original design.
Hopefully those admin plugins will work for your Wordpress Blog. As always, if you have any that you use and it is not on here than let me know. I definitely want to give everyone as many options as possible. It probably would be nice to know which of these Wordpress admin plugins are compatible with the new Wordpress.
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Hmm. It appears that some of these plugins aren’t for WordPress 2.7.
Actually, some throw errors or don’t ’show up at all’… it’d be good to mention which of these are compatible. But yeh, as you mentioned 2.7 makes many of these not necessary as 2.7 streamlines most tasks.
I’ve always used lighter menus plugin until 2.7. If you have it installed with 2.7 you can’t see any menus at all. So you actually have to ftp into your server and delete the plugin to be able to access your menus again.
Why is Blogger so behind in the plug-in department? I mean, it is owned by Google and stuff.
Bummer, I was ready to give a couple of these a try until I read the other comments. I’m not that crazy about 2.7 – it’s way too busy and tries to be all things to all bloggers – over-intuitive if there is such a thing.
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