New plugin : BM Admin Tweak

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned how I have customised my wordpress administration interface to make it more streamlined and usable. This is an interface I made for myself so it works the way I want it too – however I had a couple of people say they liked the look of it and wanted me to release it as a plugin… so here it is.

Before anyone downloads it I would like to point out that this was made for me. Whilst there are features you may like if they don’t benefit me and I can’t add them in 10 minutes or so then I won’t be adding them. For example when I announced the theme on Twitter I got a comment saying it doesn’t work with Ozh Dropdown Admin Menu – I have spent about half an hour looking at it and I can see no easy way to either replicate Ozh dropdown menu, or to work around the problem within bm-admin-tweak – so I’m not going to do anything (sorry Danny :S )… that said… never say never. Maybe when I get some free time I’ll give it another go.

A before and after comparison of the Write post page

New WordPress write post design

The information page is over here and you can get the full scoop (including download) over on WordPress extend.

Let me know what you think on Mastodon, or BlueSky (or Twitter X if you must).

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