Title: Customizing the admin theme ?
Last modified: November 9, 2022

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# Customizing the admin theme ?

 *  [akgt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akgt/)
 * (@akgt)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-admin-theme/)
 * Hi All
 * You all know the admin theme has not been updated in years and looks dated (even
   then it was not modern), I was wondering if it was possible to customize the 
   admin theme a little without breaking WP, using a plugin, or having to redo it
   every time we get a update. I know a few plugins are available but the issue 
   is they get abandoned a lot.
 * Few things I would like to do when customising to make it somewhat modern.
 * 1. Able to add custom colours
    2. Add some padding 3. update the avatar area 
   to be round and update nav to look modern 4. Custom fonts and text size 5. custom
   logo
 * I have found a few plugins that do still work and add some customization I like
   but then lack in others also add a lot of bloat
 * Some of the plugins that do make some changes
    1. WP Adminify – Does give you
   a nice navbar inc the user avatar but thats it, too much bloat and paywalls and
   does not change much else. 2. Space Admin Theme – no longer supported but abandoned,
   does a nice job of the side bar, adds log but removes the navbar but no customization
   3. Custom Admin UI – good starting point but has been abandoned 4. Aquila Admin
   Theme – Does a lot of the work I wanted but I dont like the section label it 
   ads to the navbar, does add some bloat to WP and has been abandoned 5. Zephyr
   Admin Theme – good start.
 * also found – Admin Color Schemes and Admin Custom Font
 * I dont want to add load of plugins and bloat to make the backend look better
 * **Any help or advice ?**
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress
      topic

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 *  [interere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/interere/)
 * (@interere)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-admin-theme/#post-16182387)
 * There are plenty of paid plugins that will do the job and are supported.

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 * Last activity: [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-admin-theme/#post-16182387)
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