Have you ever wanted to customize your WordPress admin area, but were not sure how to do it? There are several plugins that will help you change the default color scheme, add in branding and even add a help section for clients. You can do so much with the admin area with the right plugins. Here are a few of the best WordPress plugins for changing your admin area.

Admin Color Schemer

By default, you can change your admin color scheme under your profile. However, you only get eight choices and you don’t get to set the colors.

With the Admin Color Schemer (https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-color-schemer/) plugin, you can create your own color scheme for your WordPress admin area. You get to choose the base, icon, highlight and notification colors. If you don’t like the default options, use this plugin to change them to whatever color scheme you prefer for your admin area.

Blue Admin

Another way to change the colors of your WordPress admin area is with the Blue Admin Plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/blue-admin/). This plugin will change the design to a simple and clean admin area perfect for those looking for a more relaxed look.

White Label CMS

Completely customizing your dashboard panels, logos, menus and other areas of the admin area is now possible with the White Label CMS plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/white-label-cms/). This plugin allows you to personalize every WordPress website you own or work on to keep confusion to a minimum. You can easily change the menus that are visible, adjust the dashboard panels; add in branding and so much more with this plugin. It’s the perfect solution for website designers and developers using WordPress.

Adminimize

Maybe you want to hide some of the admin menus from other uses. With the Adminimize (https://wordpress.org/plugins/adminimize/) plugin, you can hide any meus you want from any user role. If you have a site you built for a client, this will allow you to hide menus you don’t think the client needs or they might access and break the site from. It also works great for multi-author sites.

Remove Dashboard Access

Maybe you have users you need to disable dashboard access for. With the Remove Dashboard Access Plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-dashboard-access-for-non-admins/) you will be able to easily limit dashboard access for those you don’t want getting in. You can redirect them to any URL you want and you can even add profile access and display a message on the login screen.

Featured Image Column

If you user featured images on your WordPress site, this is a must-have plugin. You can display the images in a column within your “all post” section so that you don’t have to access every individual post just to figure out which image you used.

WP Help

Maybe you work on a number of different website and you want to give your clients a way to get help directly from their WordPress site. The WP Help plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-help/) will allow you to configure a customized help/resource center. This will allow you to add in tutorials for problems your clients may run into. Instead of having to be on call 24/7, this section may answer their questions without the need for contacting you.

Within the help section, you can create a hierarchical document with answers to common or even complicated questions. This makes it easy to give authors, editors, contributors and clients a way to get help without interrupting your work.

There are several great ways to customize the WordPress admin area. These plugins are only some of the many things you can do to rebrand and make your admin area your own.