Brand Your Wordpress Admin Area (Ideal For Multi-Author Sites)
I love Wordpress.
I love the freedom it gives a blogger, how easy it is for the non-techie to play around with, and most of all, I love the creative community of Theme designers and plugin creators that are always working to improve the WP user experience .
The only thing I would change is the admin branding.
I want my site to carry our branding, especially since we allow users to register to become guest bloggers.
Fortunately, I came across a handy little plugin that makes branding real easy.
Wordpress Custom Admin Branding
I found the Wordpress Custom Admin Branding Plugin and after installation, followed the steps that allowed me to brand the following areas.
Now instead of seeing the Wordpress Logo you will see:
The log-in panel (the registration panel looks the same).
This is the header section with our branding (company logo).
Our branded footer logo.
To do the same for your website, simply download the plugin from RedLetterStudio.com and then follow the instructions you will find on the website.
Under settings, you will see the Custom Admin Branding tab, click this and you will be presented with the following screen.
As you can see, you’ll have access to a variety of customisation features.
If you are not fortunate enough to have Adobe Photoshop to create your logo then you can always use the free alternative, GIMP.
Is this something you would use?
Do you think multi-author site branding is important?
Happy branding,
Karl Foxley
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R kumar
I had always been wondering about ways of branding the admin panel for my Wordpress blog. It looks so common that a branding was desperately required in order to create a uniqueness to it.
There is another plugin called fluency admin which you can find at http://deanjrobinson.com/projects/fluency-admin/, which is also a way of changing the look and feel of your admin panel.
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Alison Moore Smith
I own one, large group blog. This is something I will look into in the next month as I revamp it.
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Karl Foxley
That’s cool Alison. You’ll have to tell me more about your group blog (my interest is getting the better of me
).
Dana
It is a great way to brand your blog. Another way you can do for your multiuser wordpress blog is use sidewide login plugin which make users do not need go to admin page while login.
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Karl Foxley
That sounds cool Dana, I’ll have to look into that one.