Arindo Duque

Are you already tired of the way WordPress 3.8 looks?
Did you wish to be able to change and personalize, and even whitelabel some of the WordPress signatures on the WP Dashboard?
Note: We are officially returning to support his plugin, so <a href="http://weare732.com/en/home/#av_section_4" rel="nofollow ugc">let us know</a> if you have any feature suggestion or bug you want to see solved. A major release with a bunch of new features should be arriving soon.
Well, you can do all of that with Ultimo WP!
With Utimo WP Dashboard Theme you can:
<ol>
<li>Personalize the entire look and feel of the WordPress dashboard, based on 8 beautifully designed presets (and counting).</li>
<li>Personalize the login screen of the WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li>Whitelable some of the WordPress signatures, like the footer texts and adding your company logo to the dashboard and login page.</li>
</ol>
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Ultimo WP

Get a clean, beautiful and customizable new look on your WordPress Admin Dasboard.

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With Admin Tweaks you’ll be able to simplify and make deep customizations in the administrative interface. 
It’s a compilation of hooks for enhancing, styling and reducing WordPress backend.
Do you like to adjust and style the backend as much as the frontend? 
So, we are together!
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Admin Bar: remove, add and modify menu items.</li>
<li>Admin Menus: remove menu and submenu items; sort Settings menu; rename “Posts”.</li>
<li>Appearance: hide general elements; create admin notices.</li>
<li>Dashboard: remove and add widgets.</li>
<li>General Settings: enable arcane Link Manager; privacy; other misc options.</li>
<li>Listings: customize rows and columns for post types, users and plugins.</li>
<li>Media: custom columns; re-attachment; sanitize filenames; jpeg quality; audio/photo/video metadata.</li>
<li>Plugins: many row modifications; live filter by keyword/active/inactive; move plugins menus from the main menu into the Tools menu (Code Snippets, The SEO Framework, Hide Admin Notices).</li>
<li>User Profile: remove almost everything; add custom CSS.</li>
<li>Login: redirects; errors; modify almost everything; add custom CSS.</li>
<li>Maintenance Mode: with minimum Role allowed and possibility to block only the backend.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Acknowledgments</h3>
<ul>
<li>Everything changed after <a href="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Stack Exchange</a></li>
<li>Plugin interface using @bainternet’s <a href="https://github.com/bainternet/Admin-Page-Class" rel="nofollow ugc">Admin Page Class</a></li>
<li>CSS for hiding help texts adapted from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-expert-mode/" rel="ugc">Admin Expert Mode</a></li>
<li>Everything started with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/adminimize/" rel="ugc">Adminimize</a>, by Frank Büeltge, which does an awesome job hiding WordPress elements, but I wanted more, and these are some of the great resources where I found many snippets: <a href="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/1567/best-collection-of-code-for-your-functions-php-file" rel="nofollow ugc">Stack Exchange</a>, <a href="https://wpengineer.com" rel="nofollow ugc">WPengineer</a>, <a href="https://www.wpbeginner.com" rel="nofollow ugc">wpbeginner</a>, <a href="https://css-tricks.com" rel="nofollow ugc">CSS-TRICKS</a>, <a href="https://wp.smashingmagazine.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Smashing Magazine</a>, <a href="https://justintadlock.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Justin Tadlock</a>…</li>
<li>The option to hide the help texts from many areas of WordPress uses the CSS file of the plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-expert-mode/" rel="ugc">Admin Expert Mode</a>, by Scott Reilly.</li>
</ul>

Admin Tweaks

This is a really cool plugin helping my everyday work in the admin dashboard. I install it for all my sites. I love it!

Simply awesome!

I found three separate bugs in 5 minutes after download. Is anyone maintaining this plugin in 2020?

3 bugs in 5 minutes

Customize various aspects of WordPress backend. Create a clean and easier admin area for the users.

Ultimo WP vs Admin Tweaks