Admin Color Schemer

Description

Create your own admin color scheme, right in the WordPress admin under the Tools menu. Go simple with the four basic colors, or get into the details and customize to your heart’s content.

Contributing

Pull requests and issues on GitHub welcome.

Installation

Admin Color Schemer is most easily installed automatically via the Plugins tab in your dashboard. Your uploads folder also needs to be writeable in order to save the scheme.

Screenshots

Admin color schemer in action

Faq

Why do I have to click a button to preview?

The preview currently operates by generating a complete stylesheet and reloading it. While in some environments this happens near-instantaneously, the time and resources it takes to reflect a change are not ideal for live previews. We do hope to solve this in a later release.

I’m getting an ugly screen asking me for a username and password.

This means that your uploads folder requires credentials in order to save the the scheme files. If you’re not sure how to fix that, please try the support forums. We’ll also work on making this prompt more beautiful in the future.

What should I do if I’ve updated this plugin or WordPress recently and now my color scheme doesn’t look right?

Some versions of WordPress or this plugin may change how the custom color scheme output is generated, so if you see something funny, first try re-saving your custom color scheme. If it’s still broken, then please let us know.

Reviews

Don't Bother

By CGS Web Designs (cgscomputers) on April 28, 2022

Doesn't work with latest versions of WP. Throws a critical error when trying to save any color change. Not sure why the WP Core Team leaves it in the repository if it's not going to be maintained. If I could give it 0 stars I would.

Great plugin, but slightly flawed.

By twinskye on January 10, 2021

Everything is perfect, but it's not allowing for hex codes now and the Preview button makes everything change as desired, however, when you Save, it resets. Please update to include the hex code input box and actually save the changes.

Does still not work

By Martin Sauter (martin.sauter) on May 7, 2020

This plugin offers exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately it does not work properly but returns an error when you try to safe your color scheme. It's a shame that a plug-in by the WordPress Core Team is so poorly developed and maintained.

Not working

By Raphael Eid (reid9) on June 24, 2019

this plugin everytime i save changes for a new color my website goes down and says there is technical difficulties, and nothing happens.

Doesn't seem to work, crashes the admin

By marg9 on May 28, 2019

As others have already mentioned, it crashes when saving.

Newest version is on GitHub but not here

By artsgirl on January 22, 2019

There's a newer, working version of this plugin on the GitHub repository. Please update the version here. This is a great and very useful plugin and deserves to be accessible to all WordPress users, not just those savvy enough to grab the newer version from GitHub.

Please Update

By justiin on December 18, 2018

Please make it work for PHP7, The plugin is great but this is 2018...PHP7 is the basic for websites now...

Caused a fatal error

By leeleplawdeichmann on November 27, 2018

Seemed to be fine until I tried to save the colours I wanted, then caused a fatal error on the site. Had to remove the plugin file via ftp to get the site back up again.

No PHP 7 support?

By crundi on July 26, 2018

I've used this for a while, it's on most of my sites. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work on PHP 7. *sad face*

Doesn't Work

By adriannees on September 4, 2017

When I try to simply change the base color it hangs up and then gives a PHP error saying it tried to use to much memory or something. Would have been exactly what I needed if it worked, but uninstalled

Changelog

1.1

Updated phpsass library to fix PHP 7 bug (with many thanks to @KZeni).
Ensure custom color scheme can be previewed when using the default admin color scheme.
Avoid a potential PHP notice.

1.0

Initial release