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The Qwerty Admin Panel Theme is a plugin for WordPress 2.7 that allows you to style the admin panel and login screen for all users, allowing you to configure groups of colors through an options page, and styles through a stylesheet. Also, it allows you to swap the wordpress logos with your own logo images.
It can be useful in helping to maintain your design, color schemes and branding on multi-author blogs and sites with user-contributed content, adding a nice touch to sites developed for clients, or simply personalizing your blog’s administration, look and feel.
<h3>Usage / Configuration</h3>
While the Qwerty Admin Panel Theme Plugin has some defaults that you might like and keep, it’s basic purpose is to make the customization process easy.
<h4>Colors</h4>
The options page is under Appearance –> Qwerty Admin Panel Theme. From there you can configure groups of colors for display, as well as which of the admin panel menus are to be hidden.
<h4>Images</h4>
In the qwerty-admin/images/ folder there are three images, which appear in the login screen (qwerty-logo-login.png), the lower left corner of the admin panel (qwerty-logo-ghost.png) and the upper right corner, on the panel’s header (qwery-logo-head.png).
In order to show your own images, place them in the plugin’s images folder with the names logo-login.png, logo-ghost.png and logo-head.png. If any of the images doesn’t exist, the plugin will use the default qwerty- one. Don’t substitute the qwerty- ones, as they may be overwritten when the plugin is updated.
<h4>CSS</h4>
If you need to enter any style information of your own, you can do so in a file named qwerty-admin-imports.css, which doesn’t come with the theme but will be loaded if you create it. This way, you can modify css information without worrying of losing your customizations on auto-updates.
Currently the plugin uses the /wp-admin/css/colors-fresh.css file to get its base information from, and the only information it fiddles with is colors and images. Of course, you can change dimensions to suit your needs by entering your styles in the imports file.
<h4>Limited interface</h4>
The limited interface options work with wordpress capabilities, checking if the user has the “Limited interface” capability and hiding certain parts of the admin interface in that case.
In order for it to work you have to give the “Limited interface” capability to a group of users. You need a role manager plugin to do so.
The options panel provides toggles to quickly hide the Dashboard, Media and Comments menus. You can place any other css styles you wish to apply for that role in a file named qwerty-admin-limited.css in your plugin directory and it will be automatically included.
Bear in mind that the plugin simply hides certain elements by setting their display property to none. Users that know a url hidden in this way may still visit it, so it shouldn’t be used for security purposes but only to simplify the design.

Qwerty Admin Panel Theme

This plugin overrides the admin panel style sheet for all users, allowing you to configure its colors through an options page.

Luke Hertzler

The Zeus WordPress Admin plugin is a pragmatic solution to improve upon the slow changing WordPress dashboard. The idea is 
to bundle multiple features that bring the WordPress admin to a more modern level.
The plugin extends WordPress by installing the following features:
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Improved admin CSS – Simple and minimal CSS markup to improve read-ability and overall backend experience. Slightly wider 
admin menu and modifications to colors and spacing go a long way. Instead of creating an “admin theme” where WordPress becomes 
un-recognizable, I simply took the same approach WordPress had, and improved upon it.
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Hide Front-End Toolbar – Implemented the ability to move the front-end toolbar off the page. This is especially 
important for site that use fixed position navigation menus. Simply click and arrow on the toolbar and watch is slide away. Adds 
and arrow to your toolbar, when clicked the toolbar will slide away and body will be restored to original position.
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Global Admin Search – Search through your entire WordPress back-end and view real-time results. Makes jumping to a certain 
post/page/product/custom post type extremely easy. Click the icon in the top bar or type ‘/’ to start a search.
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Menu Editor – Nothing is more annoying than a cluttered menu because every plugin is fighting for space. Use 
the menu editor to move top-level menu items anywhere you want. Now supports adding and removing spacers! Simply click, drag, and drop directly in the admin menu.
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Hide Menu Items – We’ve given you the ability to streamline the admin interface further with hiding certain items. Many 
times additional plugins will add items to your menu that you’ll never use. Chuck them away and de-clutter!
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Zeus WordPress Admin

A simple, clean admin theme with select features to extend and improve your WordPress experience.

Qwerty Admin Panel Theme vs Zeus WordPress Admin