10 Drupal Administration Themes

28 Oct 2009

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Administration themes

RootCandy is a 3 column fluid or fixed layouts theme focused on administration section.

Supports node/add /edit pages
Re-colorable, Icons, Sliding region
Top navigation by role
Simple dashboard
Rootcandy dark sub-theme

Eldir
A minimal (nearly CSS-only) theme that focuses on components provided by the Hosting module and a clean administrative UI.

Seven

seven
Seven is a backport of the default Drupal 7 administration theme (designed by Mark Boulton and Leisa Reichelt). This is simply that theme made compatible with D6 for anyone who wants to start using it now. For more information about the theme itself, visit Mark and Leisa’s Drupal 7 site at http://d7ux.org

Nerdalistic
A mix of Google and Wordpress ideas and colors in an easy to use and configure layout.

Polpo Admin Theme

polpo
Specifically designed for making administration tasks clearer and easier to navigate, Polpo uses a fluid two column layout ideal for content editing on larger screen resolutions. This is achieved through the use of larger font sizes, clearer spacing and distinct colours to aid the usability of common tasks.

Berylizer
Berylizer is a Admin Theme for Drupal 6.x.

xHTML, CSS2 and a little bit CSS3
2 column fluid layout
Drop Down Mainmenu

Strix

strix
Strix is a theme specifically designed for the Drupal administration pages. It is built as a sub theme of Zen,

Clean and compact /admin overview page
CSS based drop-down effects for the navigation menu block (see Configuration in the Readme.txt)
Fieldsets on the node edit and node add pages are in a column to the right.
Primitively recolorable: just change the body background color

Fruity

fruity
Fruity is a clean, colorful administration theme with a small footprint

ActiveSite
Administrative-oriented theme

Bonus

Admin

admin

The admin module provides UI improvements to the standard Drupal 6 admin interface. It implements some of the ideas being explored for usability improvements in Drupal 7.

Offline

offline
A theme for you dead site and to use in the maintenance mode.

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16 Responses to 10 Drupal Administration Themes

mogdesign

October 28th, 2009 at 9:28 pm

@Matt Thx I just added admin although it is a module, not a theme.

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Bevan

October 29th, 2009 at 8:46 am

Admin module is more like a theme packaged as a module than a module per se.

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minanube

October 29th, 2009 at 9:52 am

Yes admin is awesome, and it’s default for drupal 7. Beautiful

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October 29th, 2009 at 2:37 pm

[...] 10 Admin-Themes für Drupal Wie ich bereits in diesem Blog desöfteren berichtet habe, ist RootCandy eine echt feine Sache. Lustigerweise gibt es natürlich ein paar mehr Themes dieses Kalibers und natürlich mein Lieblings-Plugin: Admin. Und wenn man schon einmal dabei ist, kann man auch direkt einen Blick auf die Homepage des Drupal 7 user Experience Projects werfen. [...]

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Iztok

December 27th, 2009 at 12:05 am

This admin theme/module looks feels better than RootCandy, will give it a try!

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Charlie

March 28th, 2010 at 3:17 pm

No, they won’t slow down the site’s performance.

Performing admin work or using an admin theme certainly affects what *you* see and do, but other users on the public side of the site shouldn’t notice any difference. This is assume you’re on a stable server / using a properly configured database.

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kacamata.us

May 12th, 2010 at 5:59 am

Drupal and Powered By Zappos (PBZ)
We are also using Drupal for portions of the individual Powered by Zappos sites. A big proponent for the new PBZs is Domain Access. We have a number of CS/FAQ pages that are consistent across all PBZs, allowing us to publish certain pages to all sites, while at the same time allowing us to create site-specific pages.

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tampa bay general contractor

June 18th, 2010 at 6:03 pm

Some people like other content management systems like WordPress, Joomla, and Plone. I think Drupal is the best for the task of building search engine friendly content-based Web sites.

Drupal is very powerful and can be used for building large, complex sites.

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Jeff

June 19th, 2010 at 12:38 pm

Adaptivetheme (http://drupal.org/project/adaptivetheme), an advanced starter theme for Drupal 6 and 7, has an admin theme included in the package. It a lightweight, clean and simple theme designed to ease administration tasks. Inspiration was taken from Wordpress. The Drupal 7 version compliments us of the toolbar and shortcuts bar nicely. By default the theme is 100% fluid width, but you can change this in the theme settings (there are many theme settings in Adaptivetheme package).

I built it because I didn’t like the way many admin themes heavily styled the content (such as Root Candy, which is a very slow theme), nor Admin module theme which is nice, but again a whole lot of styles, icons and so on.

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