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SpotMilk admin theme for WordPress
by Jason Clarke Aug 23rd 2006 at 12:00PM
WordPress rocks as a blogging platform. It's free, fast, solid and robust. Unfortunately, the administration interface is at best a little "blah", and if I'm a bit less nice about it, just plain ugly. Apparently I'm not the only person who thinks so, since the folks over at CeprixConception have released an administration interface theme for WordPress called SpotMilk to make it a bit easier on the eyes. SpotMilk is obviously modeled a bit on Apple's Spotlight, which is fine with me since it makes WordPress look quite a bit more polished. SpotMilk updates the following:- New WP logo design
- New Login/Register page
- Spotlight-styled header image
- New main and sub menus
- Font and color changes in menus, titles and texts
- Removing box styles in the WP News
- New forms and fancy buttons
- CSS support for other popular plugins
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Nathan said 2:27PM on 8-23-2006
I really like this works great and looks nice
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Project Management Software said 3:18AM on 9-03-2006
Couldn't agree more. Wordpress folks need to do some serious work about 'theming' the admin interface.
I recently had to change the admin interface and have it behave differently for different kind of users. It was one big nightmare trying to fudge wp-admin/index.php.
Theres got to be a better solution. Will try out Spot Milk.
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