Mike Walsh

<p>The 2.5 release dramatically changed the layout of the WordPress Dashboard.<br />
This plugin implements an admin theme which results in the Dashboard looking<br />
similar (but not exactly) to how it looked prior to the 2.5 release.  This is<br />
implemented using CSS declarations which take precedence over those shipped<br />
with WordPress.</p>
<p>This plugin also supports Andy Staines’ <a href="http://www.stuff.yellowswordfish.com/admin-drop-down-menus/" title="Advanced Admin Menus" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Admin Menus</a> and similarly<br />
employs CSS declarations which take precendence over those shipped with the<br />
plugin.  The result is Advanced Admin Menus which look closer to those shipped<br />
in Andy’s pre-2.5 plugin.  The required “click” to activate a menu remains.</p>
<p>This plugin has been tested (but not exhaustively) with IE7, Firefox 2.x,<br />
Apple’s Safari all running on the Windows platform.  No other testing has<br />
been performed.  I personally use IE most of the time but that is largely<br />
due to some thing I use at work which require IE.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>I got the idea to do this after looking at the<br />
<a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/projects/fluency-admin/" title="Fluency Admin There" rel="nofollow ugc">Fluency Admin Theme</a>,<br />
which doesn’t support IE or I probably would have used it, and the<br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/baltic-amber-admin-themes-and-schemes/" title="Baltic Amber">Baltic Amber</a> theme.<br />
Fluency redesigns the Dashboard and Baltic Amber offers multiple color choices<br />
for the Dashboard.  After seeing how Baltic Amber loaded, I realized I<br />
could do something similar for the CSS declarations I wanted to change.<br />
It was surprisingly easy.</p>


Retro-Dashboard Admin Theme

This plugin implements an admin theme which results in the Dashboard looking similar (but not…

Frank Bueltge

Inpsyde GmbH

Simon Kraft

WP Media

<p>If you manage a multi-author WordPress blog or WordPress sites for clients, then you may have wondered if it was possible to clean up the WordPress admin area for your users? There are lots of things in the WordPress admin area that your users don’t need to see or use. This plugin help you to hide unnecessary items from WordPress admin area.</p>
<p>Adminimize makes it easy to remove items from view based on a user’s role.</p>
<h4>What does this plugin do?</h4>
<p>The plugin changes the administration backend and gives you the power to assign rights on certain parts. Admins can activate/deactivate every part of the menu and even parts of the sub-menu. Meta fields can be administered separately for posts and pages. Certain parts of the write menu can be deactivated separately for admins or non-admins. The header of the backend is minimized and optimized to give you more space and the structure of the menu gets changed to make it more logical – this can all be done per user so each role and their resulting users can have his own settings.</p>
<h4>Support Custom Post Type</h4>
<p>The plugin support all functions also for custom post types, automatically in the settings page.</p>
<h4>Support Custom Options on all different post types</h4>
<p>It is possible to add own options to hide areas in the back-end of WordPress. It is easy and you must only forgive a ID or class, a selector, of the markup, that you will hide.</p>
<h4>Compatibility with plugins for MetaBoxes in Write-area</h4>
<p>You can add your own options, you must only check for css selectors.</p>
<h4>Help with “Your own options”</h4>
<p>See the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/328449" title="Plugin: Adminimize Help with Your own options (3 posts)" rel="ugc">entry on the WP community forum</a> for help with this great possibility.</p>
<h4>License</h4>
<p>Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog. But if you enjoy this plugin, you can thank me and leave a <a href="http://bueltge.de/wunschliste/" title="Wishliste and Donate" rel="nofollow ugc">small donation</a> for the time I’ve spent writing and supporting this plugin. And I really don’t want to know how many hours of my life this plugin has already eaten 😉</p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>The plugin comes with various translations, please refer to the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language" title="Installing WordPress in Your Language" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Codex</a> for more information about activating the translation. If you want to help to translate the plugin to your language, please have a look at the sitemap.pot file which contains all definitions and may be used with a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/" rel="nofollow ugc">gettext</a> editor like <a href="http://www.poedit.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Poedit</a> (Windows) or use, I prefers this, the <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/adminimize" rel="nofollow ugc">translation service from wordpress.org</a>.</p>


Adminimize

Adminimize that lets you hide 'unnecessary' items from the WordPress backend

Retro-Dashboard Admin Theme vs Adminimize