Blue, orange and white – that is the color scheme of the new WordPress administration panel. Why are they changing the theme? No clue – from what I’ve seen, so far, it reminds me of an earlier Blogspot admin panel, for some reason. Maybe it’s the use of the orange that makes me think that. I quite like the current design of the administration panel in WordPress, though…I’m a little dissapointed that they aren’t staying with it and building from it, for congruency’s sake. That’s just me, though – there will be plenty who applaud this change and I’m sure I’ll embrace it as well – I’m just a damn creature of habit! Heh.
WordPress 2.4 Administration Panel Preview from Tubetorial
At this time, the two big changes in the top menu in the Administration Panel is:
- Presentation is now labeled “Design”
- Options is now labeled “Settings”
It looks, from this video, that there is a great deal more work to be done on the administration panel design – so it will be interesting to see how those changes evolve. Thanks to the folks at Tubetorial for providing this sneak peek!
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