WordPress – Give A New Look To Your Old Admin Dashboard

Many WordPress user may not be comfortable with the old admin User Interface. So lets talk about a WordPress plugin that gives a new look to your admin dashboard. Using this you can release a lot of space from the left of your admin panel. All admin links are available in a clean horizontal drop down menu, you can find it on the top of your WordPress admin panel.

Many WordPress user may not be comfortable with the old admin User Interface. So lets talk about a WordPress plugin that gives a new look to your admin dashboard. Using this you can release a lot of space from the left of your admin panel. All admin links are available in a clean horizontal drop down menu, you can find it on the top of your WordPress admin panel.


In order to change the look and feel of your admin dashboard, WordPress has a Plugin called Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu. You can find more options in the settings>Admin Menu.

Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu Features:

  • Various color schemes are available.
  • Compatible with WordPress version 3.0 or higher.
  • No need to click on “Manage” then “Pages” to edit pages.
  • Plenty more space on your screen.
  • You can also define color of your own choice.

Activate the plugin and it appears like in the below image.

Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu

Releases plenty of space from the left of your admin panel.

Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu-post

Read more about Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu on WordPress.org

I really find this plugin helpful, if you know any other similar plugin you can share it through your  comments.

Link : Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu

2 Comments

Deepak Jain December 28, 2010

Nice post Huzaifa. A while back, I saw a guide on how to ajaxify WP admin and front pages. Guess, a detailed post about doing that would be of interest to readers.

Huzaifa Darbar December 28, 2010

Good topic to write about, Thnx deepak 🙂