Disabling admin transitions in v7?

Hi @arothman ,

You’re not missing anything there isn’t currently a built-in setting in WordPress 7.0 (including RC builds) to disable the admin page fade transitions.

What you’re seeing is part of recent UI updates where WordPress introduces subtle opacity/transition effects between admin views. At the moment, these aren’t user-configurable via preferences or profile settings.

That said, you can disable the effect with a small CSS override. For example, adding this via a custom plugin or admin CSS will effectively remove the transitions:

add_action(‘admin_head’, function () {
echo ‘<style>
* {
transition: none !important;
animation: none !important;
}
html, body {
opacity: 1 !important;
}
</style>’;
});

If you prefer a more targeted approach, you can scope it to specific admin containers (like #wpbody-content or .wrap) instead of disabling all transitions globally.

Also worth double-checking if any plugin is enhancing or overriding admin animations, though in this case it does appear to be coming from core.

It might be a good candidate for a feature request either a “reduced motion” preference or respecting the system-level prefers-reduced-motion setting more aggressively in wp-admin.