Drape Your Dashboard In Living Color
When we launched a makeover of the dashboard, one of the features you requested the most was the ability to shake up its color scheme. Starting today, you can do just that. You can now choose between eight different color settings:
To switch color schemes, go to your dashboard, then look in Users (or Profile) → Personal Settings (or just click on this direct link). Among the new color schemes you’ll also find a light-grey one (MP6 Light), which we designed for users who are sensitive to light.
Aside from the new color choices, we’ve kept improving and polishing your publishing experience. Taking your feedback into account, we’ve streamlined the under-the-hood look of your site. Here, for example, is the Publish Module, before and after our recent changes:
We hope you’ll enjoy playing with color!
- November 6, 2013
- Dashboard, Design, WordPress.com
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Thanks for giving us these personalization options. Even the Gallery placeholder got a makeover. Flat is the new black! 🙂
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Nice, I’ve gone with seaweed 🙂
Now if you could just fix the reader I’ll be a happy bunny again! 😉
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Nice addition! Thanks!!
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Nice. Better change dashboard colours instead of buying new shoes. ^^
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WOW – Purple – so excited – well sort of – maybe – actually don’t really much care for Purple anyway – but other than that guess OK – I was happy with the last changes – but for those that like colors more better
But on the Publish Module – I don’t see any real difference – maybe a shade in the font – what am I missing?
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You’re the only one to mention the lack of change on the publish mod… I also scratched my head! I see no change! Smaller font? 🙂 Enjoy your day!
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Nice, I’ve gone with seaweed
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Thanks for the new options. ~~~~ : – )
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Excited to tweek a few things. Thanks for changing it up!
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Thank you — I just selected Ectoplasm!
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Awesome. Thank you!
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wow wow wow
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Love this new features. The lighter background options make it so much easier to read text.
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I agree! This is awesome!!!
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Great & thx! Even for a digibeet easy to install…
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You know, it’s just a little thing, but it makes a huge difference. Thank you for this.
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Ectoplasm lives. More color is more love! Thank you.
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Loving it! So glad you had a purple color scheme, lol 🙂
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Thanks! I’ll try it! 🙂
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Very nice, thank you! I hope the new streamlining doesn’t mean things are actually smaller and that’s just a graphic. Please don’t make things harder to read. One other piece of general feedback. You have many nice themes I would never use because so many of them are low contrast. Please make an option for higher contrast on these if it’s not too hard.
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One of the most noble goals with the initial dashboard refresh was to increase contrast and readability across the board. That’s still the case.
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Thanks, and that’s good to hear. I do think the colors helped. I changed mine to a black and red scheme that makes it easier for me to read. So much design is going low-contrast these days.
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woohoo that makes things more user friendly and customizable, im glad you guys keep improving yourselves as it helps us improve ourselves too.
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Hey, thanks a lot! It feels like home already!
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I have a bit of problem of finding the Personal Setting page on my dashboard unless I click on the direct link here provided. After searching high and low, it is actually under Dashboard>Users>Personal Settings. Hope this helps for those who can’t find it like me!
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I have updated the post to clarify, thanks.
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How about the option to choose a background color for the editor so that we can see the edited text that may be colored in very light pastels, like light yellow, and of course white! Needless to say, it’s impossible to see white-colored type on a white background. If you’re using a theme with a very dark background like “Sunspot” this would be very helpful.
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Very informative. Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Absolutely LOVE this option. Now this is a new feature that I can say really changes (for the better) our blogging experience. Never underestimate color and how color effects our moods. I like the Seaweed, however, I love the Ectoplasm!
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Really don’t care for the change in the Publish Module. It’s now smaller text and lighter in color. How is that a change for the better? I think someone got carried away with this change.
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Thank you all. — Color really is an important part of our lives — it’s that extra pleasantness that makes our days better.
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I am impressed. Thank you very much!
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Awesome! Personal touches like that are so great and just making the blogging experience all the better, so thank you! I’ve currently chosen the Ectoplasm option, but don’t be afraid to add more options in the future! 😀
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Very, very nice, Thank you for all the great information:)
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SO COOL. Butter churner dance!
Thank you for all of the great improvements you guys keep coming up with. Colors are good for morale and productivity.
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Nice feature WP… I love you !!!
I am with —> Seaweed
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Wow, colors. I love it. Thanks.
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CanNOT wait to make it dimmer. Working with sunglasses is just a pain. Thanks so much!
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Love it, thanks! I chose Seaweed and what a nice change for my eyes.
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Excellent. The ecotoplasm is pretty dashing! Thanks.
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I see you integrated the M6 plugin theme. Nicely done !
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Thank you
I love it !
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thanks
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I am impressed. Thank you very much!
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verry good
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Good good!
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This does not change much for me, since ‘the content is still more important than color’
But this is an extra, no more!
It w’d be more useful getting a prompt for any last add-on dashbord feature to the wp site.
Thanks anyway.
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It’s a progressive initiatives, and what a flourishing input!
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It’s just so interesting, and a welcome input
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thank you give this……
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This is great thank-you to the Team for making this happen.
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I love the feel of new color; thanks.
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Oooh, I do like seaweed. My dashboard looks so pretty now. What fun.
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Can someone give me some advice for finding and embedding images and links in my post? I am rubbishy at the visual stuff. In the meantime , I will crank up the colour. Thankyou.
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Can someone give me some advice for finding and embedding images and links in my post? I am rubbishy at the visual stuff. In the meantime , I will crank up the colour. Thankyou.
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Great tip, thanks for giving this invaluable tip
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MP6 is perfect for me 😉 thanks
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I really like the changes. It would also be nice if you could do something about inserting photos, because if I do it on my laptop they are so small but on my iPad there really big. That would help a lot.
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Is this change for all users or only premium users?
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This change is free for everyone.
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Okay thanks for the answer!
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Thank you. One question, I do not see much difference in the Publish Module example you gave other than the font looks smaller and the Move to Trash line is no longer underlined. Have I missed something?
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Aside from the color schemes, no, there are no major visual changes. There are many little changes that hopefully add up to a more streamlined experience overall.
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Thak for this! But, i have a question: this change will alter the source of the writer wordpress posts? Well, I’m worried because the font I’m seeing now is very outdated, not to mention breaking some creativity, here’s a picture of her >>> http://puu.sh/5bwFc.png <<< now, this will only be temporary and the previous source will remain or return this source that is neither rather symmetrical?
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The change is visual only in the dashboard, where the editor font is 1px larger than before. You’ll see no change on your actual blog/website.
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Looks good to me 🙂 nice work! Good to know you’re listening to what people want
I’m new here 😀
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One part of publishing that I would like to see some thought put into for a future update is the calendar for scheduling posts. Blogs with multiple writers especially would benefit from having a more intuitive scheduling system that allows the editors to see which dates already have posts scheduled and which don’t. The current way of having all the posts in a long list no matter when they are scheduled can be overwhelming and the confusion causes multiple posts on one day and then none the next day. I sometimes write a post for a special holiday next year after getting an idea this year, and I schedule it so I don’t forget, but then have to see it at the top of the posts list for the next many months. A calendar view would be most helpful.
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This is loads of fun playing around with the colour now!!
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Thank you so much!!! 😀
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🙂
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This is great, thanks a lot!!!
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Thanks for the option of changing colour schemes. I was happy with what I had but tried a change anyway. Later I found I couldn’t edit tags on an old post or add tags to a new post. I changed back the colour and signed out. Some hours later I logged in and tagging was fine. Could be my computer but I thought I’d mention it. Regards, Bruce
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Nice. I love colour! But what happened to the ‘publish’ colour? No problem, I love colour.
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Colors make me happy! Thanks 😀
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Love the setup and enjoy adding to my blog. Thanks for the dashboard options. I would like to ask you if it is possible to provide another option to the (like button)? Although i do Like it, some posts are very touching and deal with issues of heartache, or are very informative regarding issues which are hard to face such as depression or alcoholism. Sometimes it seems wrong to click on the (like) button when these post are submitted. it could be viewed as “I like your pain!” exaggerated, I know, but still. I feel if there was an alternative(s), such as (thanks for sharing) button or (Hold in there) button, or (interesting) button etc. It might be worth while.
Any how keep up the good work and thanks for the opportunity to blog
kind regards
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There’s an option to make sure like buttons are configured on a per post basis: https://wordpress.com/support/likes/
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Hi Joen A, and thanks for getting back. I am aware of this, I was just wondering if there is any way of adding a new button.
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Ah I see. No, I’m afraid we don’t have that feature.
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Thank you … keep on innovating, it does help.
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Awesome…I agree with JenT…thanks for the personalization options.
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I will give it a try. Thanks for the tips. We strive for the beautiful and colorful in life, and in our blog
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I love you, WordPress! Thanks so much! 🙂
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