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New plugin : BM Admin Tweak

July 11, 2008 | Web Design

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned how I have customised my wordpress administration interface to make it more streamlined and usable. This is an interface I made for myself so it works the way I want it too - however I had a couple of people say they liked the look of it and wanted me to release it as a plugin… so here it is.

Before anyone downloads it I would like to point out that this was made for me. Whilst there are features you may like if they don’t benefit me and I can’t add them in 10 minutes or so then I won’t be adding them. For example when I announced the theme on Twitter I got a comment saying it doesn’t work with Ozh Dropdown Admin Menu - I have spent about half an hour looking at it and I can see no easy way to either replicate Ozh dropdown menu, or to work around the problem within bm-admin-tweak - so I’m not going to do anything (sorry Danny :S )… that said… never say never. Maybe when I get some free time I’ll give it another go.

A before and after comparison of the Write post page

New Wordpress write post design

The information page is over here and you can get the full scoop (including download) over on Wordpress extend.

Comments »

  1. 1. dwebpages
    July 12, 2008

    Nice Tip and also the theme that you have announced is beautiful

  2. 2. Kevin
    July 12, 2008

    Thanks for releasing this plugin — very nice.

  3. 3. SteveJB
    July 19, 2008

    Nice theme. mind if I port it over to Drupal along with credit to ya as the original creator?

  4. 4. Ben
    July 20, 2008

    Steve - Sorry but I’m going to ask that you don’t do that. I want to keep this theme for my site only as I think it makes my site distinct. It’s like branding for myself :)

  5. 5. Adam
    July 25, 2008

    I don’t see much of a difference… although I like them both a lot…
    Adam♥

  6. 6. Adam
    July 25, 2008

    Sorry to comment twice… I just wanted to say I love regulus… I actually made a few tweaks Css-wise to it. That’s all I guess. O yeah! Do you look kindly on kids looking at your site, if not I’ll go away.
    Adam♥

  7. 7. Alex
    July 30, 2008

    This is a cool plugin, Im going to dig in my wordpress files and see if i can tweak my admin panel too. I was actually a better plan of the older interface though, maybe itll just take some getting used to. nevertheless, great work as usual

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