Color Admin Posts is a new plugin that changes the background colors of the post/page listing within the admin based on its current status, ie. Draft, Pending, Published, Future, Private.
The really cool thing about this plugin is that it gives you an easy-to-use color picker so that you can assign your own colors to each status.
Stay organized in your dashboard with the Color Admin Posts plugin, available for free from the WordPress repository.
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Very cool plugin Sara. For those wanting to accomplish this same thing without a plugin, place the following in the functions.php file of your theme and just changes the color values to your liking. :) via: http://wp-snippets.com/
// Custom post highlighting based on post status //
function color_code_post_status(){
?>
.status-draft{background: #FFFF99 !important;}
.status-future{background: #CCFF99 !important;}
.status-publish{/* no background – keep alternating rows */}
.status-pending{background: #87C5D6 !important;}
.status-private{background:#FFCC99;}
<?php
}
add_action('admin_footer','color_code_post_status');
That snippet didn’t work as expected for me, but changing it to admin_head and adding tags, it works. Like here:
/* Custom post highlighting based on post status */function color_code_post_status(){
?>
.status-draft{background: #FFFF99 !important;}
.status-future{background: #CCFF99 !important;}
.status-publish{/* no background – keep alternating rows */}
.status-pending{background: #87C5D6 !important;}
.status-private{background:#FFCC99;}
<?php
}
add_action('admin_head','color_code_post_status');
LOL, the style-tags are eaten from the comment, so you probably posted a working snippet, which went broke after some censorship ^_^
This plugin has a serious bug in it. My wp-admin directory is password protected via .htaccess, so apache handles user verification. With color-admin-posts activated, my entire site appears password protected.
I haven’t experienced that issue. Might be due to your specific set up, as most users don’t have the wp-admin directory password-protected.
It looks like the plugin is adding its style definitions to the main style sheet via a javascript call. And that isn’t needed when the user isn’t inside the wp-admin area of their site. Yes, my site setup made this bug visible, and it is a bug. It could the same technique that hello.php (Hello Dolly) does to display css code only on the admin pages.
See the new version of the plugin ;)
This plugin consumes 370 Kb of your memory allocated to php.
Do you really need it? use that snippet from a comment above – it’s a better solution.