Pre-edited colors-fresh.css for anyone

Just uploaded WordPress 2.5 to my personal site, and I must say I like it. It doesn’t take long messing around with it to figure out the new logic in making it work for you. Yes, there are a few good suggestion already and I haven’t played with the new widget thingie yet, but I can tell you something I hate: the new funky “fresh” color scheme for the admin CSS layout. Worse yet, the “classic” version still really isn’t.

I went to www.remarpro.com and tried to find anything relevant under “admin color scheme” and found nothing significant. Maybe I didn’t look hard enough or whatever, but I decided instead to scratch the itch I’ve been having to go streaking through the new code.

It took only a peek at the source code on the “your profile” admin page to find what I was looking for: the names of the two admin CSS layouts. The folder for the CSS is easy enough to find in the WP-Admin area, and there I backed up the colors-fresh.css file. Using a couple of screen shots, I copied the color codes I wanted to replace, substituted red, black, and shades of grey for all the evil teals and blues, and uploaded. Poof! Nice new admin “fresh” layout.

It shouldn’t be too much work to create a plugin to substitute this new CSS file into the system for those who are plugin-creation savvy, which isn’t me because I haven’t taken the time yet to figure all that out. But if you want the CSS to upload yourself or make a nice plugin with, here ya go to right-click and save: colors-fresh.css.

There. Now I can officially say I’ve contributed.