Double Youpï Refined Admin Dashboard – Complete Admin Redesign, Dark Mode & Media Folders

The WordPress admin has looked the same since 2013, and it shows. Grey on grey, a sidebar that every plugin adds a line to, a dashboard full of widgets nobody reads. You spend your days in there. It might as well be pleasant.

Double Youpï Refined Admin Dashboard redraws the whole thing, in dark or light, using only WordPress’s own components. Nothing is reinvented: the markup stays native, so your plugins keep working and their screens get the same treatment.

A dark theme that actually arrives dark

• Dark by default, light on demand, switched from the admin bar. Your choice is remembered and applied before the first paint, so you never see the old interface flash past.
• One design system across every screen. Tables, forms, metaboxes, notices, tabs, buttons and fields all speak the same language.
• Your accent colour, picked once. Text contrast against it is computed for you, so it stays readable whatever you choose.
• Your logo, in the admin and on the login screen.

A sidebar you can finally organise

• Menu entries are grouped into themed lines rather than piled up in the order plugins were installed.
• The rail is resizable and collapsible, and remembers how you left it.
• A second bar shows the sub-pages and the useful tabs of the current screen, so you stop going back and forth.
• An editor lets you reorder, move, hide, promote or demote any entry, without touching code. Newly installed plugins are detected and offered to you rather than silently appended.

A dashboard you compose

• Arrange widgets by dragging them, add headings and text, save the layout under a name.
• Assign a default layout per role, and let each person adjust their own.
• Ready-made presets if you would rather not start from a blank page.

Every notice in one place

Plugins compete for the top of your screen. All those notices are collected into a single counter, opened when you want them. Action feedback still appears immediately, as a brief toast, because that one you asked for.

Reimagined lists and editor

• List tables keep every native action and every action your plugins add, deduplicated and shown on hover instead of stacked under each row.
• The classic post editor gets the same care, canvas included.

A media library with folders

Redrawing the admin and leaving the Media screen alone would have been a strange promise, so it is not the one made here.

• Folders and collections, by drag and drop. A file can sit in one folder and in as many collections as you like.
• A detail panel that opens beside the grid rather than over it, with the fields you actually edit.
• Where a file is used, before you delete it.
• WebP and AVIF generated on upload, and alt text filled from the filename when it is missing.
• Coming from FileBird, Real Media Library, HappyFiles or another folder plugin? Your folders are imported in one click, and nothing is deleted.

This is the whole of Double Youpï Refined Media Library, a free plugin of ours that is also published on its own. Same folders, same collections, same settings: if you already run it, activate this one and everything is where you left it. If you only ever wanted the media library, that plugin on its own is the right choice.

It steps aside when it should

Some plugins manage their own interface. When one of them owns the screen, this plugin stops theming it rather than fighting for control. Page builders, and anything that ships a full admin of its own, are left alone.

External services

This plugin sends a report to doubleyoupi.com when you use the “Send feedback” tab, and only then. Nothing is sent while you use the admin, and nothing is sent in the background.

When it happens. Only when you open the feedback tab, write a message and tick the consent box. The dialog shows you the exact report before it leaves.

What is sent. Your message and, if you attached one, your screenshot. The title and address of the admin screen you were on, with any token removed. The plugin or theme that screen belongs to. Version numbers for WordPress, PHP, your theme and this plugin. Your browser’s user agent string and window size. A site identifier that is a truncated one-way hash of your site address, so reports from one install can be grouped without knowing which site it is. If, and only if, you ask for a reply, your email address and your site address.

What is never sent. No posts, pages, media files, users, passwords or database content.

Reports are kept for 24 months, then deleted, screenshot included. You can ask for access, correction or deletion at any time.

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