Theming Your WordPress Dashboard: Slate Admin Theme

Customizing the WordPress Dashboard can greatly improve your experience with your website. This series, by our friend Russell Aaron, covers a wide variety of tools that help you do that. When you are first learning about WordPress you learn the difference between themes and plugins. A WordPress theme controls the overall look of the front-end of your website. But are there themes for the back-end; meaning the WordPress Dashboard? In my research, 95% of WordPress themes leave the back-end style alone. I started to ask myself if there are themes or plugins that change the look of the admin dashboard in WordPress. Since the release of WordPress 3.8, admin color schemes and finer admin controls were introduced alongside the latest redesign of the WordPress admin dashboard (called MP6). After playing around with a couple of the admin color schemes, I started to wonder what other kind of options were out there in the WordPress Plugin repository. At the time of this article, there are 258 WordPress admin color scheme plugins and even more that can customize the actual controls and features of the admin. After trying more than 50 of these kinds of plugins, I’ve put together this series to share #wordpress #smallbusiness #entrepreneur

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