Title: Request: 2.3.3 Style Admin Widget/Theme
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Request: 2.3.3 Style Admin Widget/Theme

 *  [chrisdoth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisdoth/)
 * (@chrisdoth)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-233-style-admin-widgettheme/)
 * First off I really like some of the new features in v2.5
 * However the admin side of things while ‘looking’ cleaner and simpler is a lot
   more confusing to work with. I know a lot of people and clients who aren’t very
   computer savy and having everything in a simple one menu format where everything
   is easily found is both usefull for them and usefull when talking them through
   changes.
 * I’m not looking forward to doing this in V2.5 especially in the widget area. 
   Also the fact there seem to be a large amount of browser problems with IE6 which
   is still quite widely used.
 * I think it would be fantastic and a real step forward if we could have the option
   of changing the admin style/layout to the ‘old’ style.
 * I can’t see the new admin area actually has anything that wasn’t featured on 
   the old style wise so would really hope this might be possible.
 * I don’t think I’m alone
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164371](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164371)
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164474](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164474)
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=1329](http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=1329)
 * And many more recent threads.
 * Many thanks for reading.

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 *  [selif](https://wordpress.org/support/users/selif/)
 * (@selif)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-233-style-admin-widgettheme/#post-731479)
 * Personally, I’d really prefer being able to have the admin pages look and behave
   the same as they did in 2.3.3. That version worked just fine. (ok the ‘visual’
   editor was crap, but I never cared for WYSIWYG when editing html anyway, I’d 
   rather just type the html that I need myself and be done with it)
 * The new admin layout frankly blows chunks. I’ll never understand why people have
   to change things that work just fine. At the very least there should be an option
   to use 2.3.3 look & feel if it’s preferred and in my case it most definitely 
   is.

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 * [admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin/)
 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget/)

 * In: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [selif](https://wordpress.org/support/users/selif/)
 * Last activity: [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-233-style-admin-widgettheme/#post-731479)
 * Status: not resolved

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