Slate Admin Theme
A clean, simplified WordPress Admin theme.
4.7(44 reviews)
·6.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 years agoAs of April 2026, Slate Admin Theme is a WordPress Admin page plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 44 reviews. It has been downloaded 141K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 6% this week. Top alternative: Zeus WordPress Admin.
4.7/544 reviews
6.0K+active installs
141K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
Slate provides a clean, simplified design for your WordPress Admin area.
Our goal was to simplify the visual design with a primary focus on the content writing experience.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
It’s beautiful
by rob0m·3 years ago
Slate make wp=admin a pleasure to use.
Cant save customizer after installing this plugin
by zaka888·4 years ago
This plugin now pretty much destroys the customizer as well as UX builder. Do not download. Very buggy
Good
by Li-An·5 years ago
This admin theme is particularly well thought for High resolution screens so it’s better than default theme.
Conflicting with Customizer
by adriannees·5 years ago·1 reply
It’s a great looking theme but unfortunately it’s conflicting with something and preventing the customizer from saving changes. Every time I hit publish in Customizer when the SLATE theme is active I get the following: “Looks like something’s gone wrong. Wait a couple seconds, and then try again.”
Also second that the woocommerce page is being overlapped by the top bar so that spacing needs to get fixed.
Almost perfect
by josflachs·5 years ago
I’d like to rate this extension 5 stars, but I can’t…
It lacks one simple feature: you can’t change the theme. As it stands, the links are very difficult to read if you have bad eyesight – which I have – dark grey on black is too difficult for me to work with.
Good work, highly recommended. If the developer can add that little feature? I’m not blind, but don’t have eagle eyes any more. Please? Pretty please with sugar on it?
- This topic was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by josflachs.
Download Trends
Today: 8Yesterday: 14This week: 60Period total: 3K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 5.9.13 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
96.3%
v1.1
3.7%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.2.4
- Styling updates for WordPress 5.9.
- Removes post state from Customzier and Menus
- Styling fixes for Elementor and WooCommerce
Contributors
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