SpectrOMTech

Dave Jesch

ServerPress

Steveorevo

Gregg Franklin

This utility plugin provides the ability to configure the color of the Admin Bar seen in the WordPress Dashboard and allows setting a message that will appear within the Admin Bar. This allows you to more easily identify when you’re working on Local, Staging and Live WordPress installations.
Usage Scenarios:
The Admin Color Bar plugin is useful when working with multiple installs of WordPress, such as when you have a local development environment, a staging site as well as a live site.
By setting the Admin Bar’s background color to Orange on a staging site, and Red for a local site, you can more easily identify which site you’re working on. This reduces the possibility that you’ll make errors by performing actions on the wrong site.
If you are using DesktopServer for your local development and would like to use the Admin Color Bar plugin as a Design Time plugin, you can install this in your /Applications/XAMPP/ds-plugins/ directory on Macintosh or the C:\xampplite\ds-plugins\ directory on Windows and it can then be configured to automatically start for all of your local development web sites. This allows you to use the plugin in your Local environment, where it’s needed and not to deploy it to your Live environment where it may not be needed. For more information on DesktopServer and local development tools, please visit our web site at: https://serverpress.com/get-desktopserver/
How it Works:
The plugin provides configuration options that allow you to select a background color and text color for the Admin Bar. You can also select a message that will be displayed within the Admin Bar to provide additional information to the users of the site.
The configuration settings will be seen by all users on the site. If you are using the plugin in a MultiSite environment, the settings are not shared among all the sites. You will need to configure each site on the network.
Support:
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Support Details: We are happy to provide support and help troubleshoot issues. Visit our Contact page at <a href="http://serverpress.com/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://serverpress.com/contact/</a>. Users should know however, that we check the WordPress.org support forums once a week on Wednesdays from 6pm to 8pm PST (UTC -8).
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ServerPress, LLC is not responsible for any loss of data that may occur as a result of using this tool. We strongly recommend performing a site and database backup before testing and using this tool. However, should you experience such an issue, we want to know about it right away.
We welcome feedback and Pull Requests for this plugin via our public GitHub repository located at: <a href="https://github.com/ServerPress/admin-color-bar" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/ServerPress/admin-color-bar</a>.

Admin Color Bar

Configure the color of the admin bar in the WordPress admin area.

flymke

Sven Hofmann

Mark Posts plugin provides an easy way to mark and highlight posts, pages and posts of custom post types within the WordPress admin posts overview.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Set custom marker categories and colors</li>
<li>Assign marker categories to posts/pages or any other post type</li>
<li>View the highlighted posts within the posts overview</li>
<li>Quick edit, bulk edit and/or edit all markers at once</li>
<li>Dashboard widget with marker status count</li>
<li>Optional custom setup via filters (check our <a href="https://github.com/hofmannsven/mark-posts/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">wiki</a> for instructions)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Live Demo</h4>
Try out the features of Mark Posts on the <a href="https://playground.wordpress.net/?blueprint-url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hofmannsven/mark-posts/master/.wordpress-org/blueprint.json" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress playground</a>.
<h3>Support</h3>
Active development of this plugin is handled on GitHub. Always feel free to <a href="https://github.com/hofmannsven/mark-posts/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">raise an issue</a>.

Mark Posts

Really helpful for adding arbitrary statuses during post creation. I've been using this plugin for years.

Very Helpful

Mark and highlight posts, pages and posts of custom post types within the posts overview.

Admin Color Bar vs Mark Posts