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Fancy Admin UI

Clean, blue theme that's customizable for the Wordpress Admin panel and Admin Bar

By Bob Orchard·UI·Free
4.4(14 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years ago
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As of April 2026, Fancy Admin UI is a WordPress ui plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 14 reviews. It has been downloaded 49K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.9.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 15% this week. Top alternative: Radio Buttons for Taxonomies.

4.4/514 reviews
1.0K+active installs
49K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014

Overview

WordPress’s admin themes are great, but we wanted to take it a step further. This is a clean blue/gray theme by default for the admin panel that simplifies the interface and makes things more accessible for our customers. Customize your colors by visiting Settings > General

If there are any features you’d like to see or bugs with other plugins – visit the support tab and let me know.

Improvements made

  • Blue AdminBar for front and backend of site
  • Soft Gray menu
  • Larger Calls to Action within Edit screens
  • Ability to change custom primary/secondary colors
  • Mobile Menu compatibility
Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

4.414 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Good Style
by Canada WebMaster·4 years ago

Its good style and nice but need update, there is some conflict with the CSS, please update the plugin as 4 years is long and keep it up 🙂

Very easy
by saqnaz·8 years ago·2 replies

Beautiful admin interface.
Thanks Bob Orchard

Great Admin theme
by louiswalch·8 years ago

This is the best Admin UI theme I’ve seen for WordPress. Very clean and minimal and does a nice job at improving the WordPress backend experience. I would highly suggest.

awesome for RTL Theme
by riaziban·8 years ago

I test several plugins for Admin Them. it is very good and nice,
i like it.

Perfect and responsive
by samthomas·9 years ago

It’s really nice, clean and user-friendly.

Thanks
Sam

Download Trends

Today: 2Yesterday: 7This week: 29Period total: 1K

Compatibility

WordPress3.9.0+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v2.1
94.4%
Other
5.6%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

2.1

Fixed menu notificaton tag position, added some more styles, fixed a few UI bugs spotted by users, and refactored the settings file to remove some PHP 7 warnings.

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Bob OrchardBob Orchard
Plugin Info
Version
2.1
Last Updated
Dec 27, 2017
WP Requires
3.9.0+
Tested Up To
4.9.29
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
1.0K+
Downloads
49K+
Added
Jul 3, 2014
Business
Free

Tags

uiuxblueadmin themecustom admin

Developer

B
Bob Orchard
2 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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