Admin Color Schemes
Bring some personality to your WordPress site with extra admin color schemes.
4.8(26 reviews)
·4.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 years agoAs of April 2026, Admin Color Schemes is a WordPress WordPress plugin with 4.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 26 reviews. It has been downloaded 59K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.7+ and PHP 5.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 15% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%.
4.8/526 reviews
4.0K+active installs
100%resolved
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
12 new color schemes for your admin.
Color schemes in this pack designed by Kate Whitley, Dave Whitley, Mel Choyce, and Kelly Dwan.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Simple and effective
by grrog·3 years ago
Excellent for quickly differentiating the different states of the site (production, experimental and under development)!
Cannot create own scheme
by lausianne·5 years ago
My misconception, probably, but I thought this was for creating my own color scheme. Just adding a few additional presets, I don’t see the point, sorry.
The only reason for me to change the color scheme would be to set it to the website brand colors. So if there were a thousand additional presets, there would still hardly be one that matches any of my clients colors …
Awesome and nice
by Knut Sparhell·7 years ago
A plugin all should have. Combine with “Default Admin Color Scheme” plugin.
Love it
by morespinach·9 years ago
Far simpler and cleaner than many “admin theme” plugins out there. Gorgeous, thank you!
simple and perfect
by Randall Camacho·9 years ago
i hope it is maintained 🙁
over 1 year and no updates
Download Trends
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.7+ requiredTested up to 5.9.13 |
| PHP | 5.3+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.0
77.5%
v2.2
11.1%
v2.3
10.2%
Other
1.2%
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.0.0
- New scheme — “Modern Evergreen” theme, inspired by the WordPress 5.9 release art.
- New feature — Style the editor to match the selected color scheme.
- Update Sass files to match core changes from 5.5 – 5.9: Buttons styled as links should use link colors, but deletion buttons should still use red; style secondary buttons differently if the theme is “low contrast”; fix focus states on toggle buttons; bri…
Contributors
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