Title: wp-admin: overwrite html without changing core?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# wp-admin: overwrite html without changing core?

 *  [mYrAn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myran/)
 * (@myran)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-overwrite-html-without-changing-core/)
 * Hi!
 * Ive designed a new adminpanel for my site, and im just about to start coding 
   it. But then i read in the codex, that you only can change the css of the adminpanel.
   I **need** to change the html for the design to work. Is there a way of doing
   this, in a plugin, without changing the core and have my design rewritten on 
   every update? Or have i just spent the night doing this in vain? 🙁
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  [jocken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jocken/)
 * (@jocken)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-overwrite-html-without-changing-core/#post-1902479)
 * There are no good tutorials out there but you can start reading about [add_filter](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference#Administrative_Filters)
   and use the plugin [adminimize](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/).
 * You’ll probably know this but html is just a way of boxing items on a page in
   a semantic way. All the styling is done with css, you can just use “display: 
   none” on items you don’t need.
 * Create a plugin or use the functions.php to add the custom css. You can also 
   use jquery for changing html, for example, changing dropdown-boxes to radiobuttons
   etc. Put all of it in your theme.
 * There are no good guides or easy ways for this task.
 *  Thread Starter [mYrAn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myran/)
 * (@myran)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-overwrite-html-without-changing-core/#post-1902489)
 * Yes, but the problem is that i need to change the actual markup of the page, 
   and that cant be done with only css :<
 *  [jocken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jocken/)
 * (@jocken)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-overwrite-html-without-changing-core/#post-1902582)
 * Then jquery is your solution.
 *  Thread Starter [mYrAn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myran/)
 * (@myran)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-overwrite-html-without-changing-core/#post-1902589)
 * And how would one go about doing that? Cant find any tutorials :<
 *  [jocken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jocken/)
 * (@jocken)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-overwrite-html-without-changing-core/#post-1902616)
 *     ```
       add_action( 'admin_footer', 'catlist2radio' );
       function catlist2radio(){
       	echo '<script type="text/javascript">';
       	echo 'jQuery("#typdiv .categorychecklist input, #argangdiv .categorychecklist input, #landdiv .categorychecklist input, #producentdiv .categorychecklist input")';
       	echo '.each(function(){this.type="radio"});</script>';
       }
       ```
   
 * For example: I use this code to change my custom taxonomies checkboxes to radiobuttons.

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