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I’ve had a few requests for a new ExpressionEngine control panel theme that matched the look of the new site a bit better… so I came up with this. Enjoy.
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Shawn Grimes
March 21, 2007
Jesse, that is absolutely gorgeous. Thank you very much for putting it together and releasing it.
brian warren
March 21, 2007
Oooooh, that’s gorgeous. I’ll have to be using that from now on. Thanks!
Geof Harries
March 21, 2007
Yay! No more purple. Thanks so much for doing this.
Geof Harries
March 21, 2007
Hey, is it just me or is EE 1.5.2 stubbornly not picking up the new theme? I’ve forced refreshed in Firefox and Safari, but nothing moves.
Chris
March 21, 2007
Thanks for taking the time to make the new theme. This will become my default.
Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain
March 21, 2007
Hey Geof,
Do you mean that it’s showing up in the control panel selector, but the styling isn’t changing? Are you updating it in the “My Account” section or in the “Admin” section? You need to make the change in “My Account.”
louis
March 21, 2007
Can we see it full size?
Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain
March 21, 2007
Indeed… Click on the image for a full-size preview. (I just added it)
Geof Harries
March 21, 2007
Jesse – Thanks. That enabled it. Looks awesome.
louis
March 21, 2007
Great work. You are an amazing designer Jesse.
Patrick S. K.
March 21, 2007
wow I did the same thing but yours does look much nicer though
Eric Barstad
March 21, 2007
Awesome! Makes me feel a little bad to be so excited over a control panel theme, but I am nonetheless. Thanks for this.
Manuela
March 21, 2007
Awesome! Thank you so much.
Stephen Tudor
March 21, 2007
Jesse, as a recent user of EE, you just made my week! Thanks so much for taking the time to do this.
David Hemphill
March 21, 2007
Ooh, very nice my friend. My clients will love you very much.
Christoph Seiler
March 21, 2007
Yes, it’s going into the right direction now! No more purple, thank you!
reese spykerman
March 21, 2007
i was wondering if EE would have a new cpanel interface to harmonize with their new look, and voila, magic! :) Very nice.
Jon Livingston
March 21, 2007
Perfect – thanks for making this available. Really adds to Expression Engine and I’m sure many admins will be very appreciative. Hope this doesn’t push EE into raising their prices :)
Enjoyed talking with you at the SXSW Godbit dinner as well as reading about your process in Digital-Web. Keep up the great work.
Will Bolton
March 21, 2007
Brilliant! Thank you Jesse. I’ve played with theming the control panel but found the underlying html to be a bit lacking. Thanks for taking the time and releasing this for everyone’s benefit.
Wayde Christie
March 22, 2007
Hey Jesse – great work.
I couldn’t help myself, so I went and added the new EE logo in and bolded up the header links.
:)
You should drop by the Virb EE Group and say hi.
Richard Medek
March 22, 2007
Holy $#!, I can’t believe a control panel theme just made me so happy. I’m naming my firstborn Jesse.
Maybe not, but I do really appreciate this. If there were a Nobel Prize category of Web Design and CMS Integration you’d be a shoo-in.
Joshua Brewer
March 22, 2007
OH THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
This makes my EE CP so pretty and it seems so clean and accessible.
Hyun
March 22, 2007
Thanks for the new CP theme! As always, has your gorgeous style written all over it!
:)
Rob
March 23, 2007
Thanks for whipping that up. I just installed it and am loving it. You da man.
Ilija ?ivi?
March 23, 2007
Yep, just great :)
Ryan Masuga
March 23, 2007
I’m a freaking geek – I just had a big endorphin rush looking at a control panel theme for a CMS. Ah, well, it takes all kinds. I’m one of those who are chanting “No More Purple!”
Thanks for this Jesse, and your redesign recap at Digital Web magazine was some good reading.
Wishing you continued success.
Veerle Pieters
March 24, 2007
Classy job Jesse :)
Sean S
March 25, 2007
It always surprises me how design aesthetic changes my emotional response and/or opinion of an application. With this theme my entire experience with ExpressionEngine has changed.
Milo
March 25, 2007
yes! Yes! YES!
Thank you so much!
Lincoln
March 25, 2007
Hi,
First of all compliments for the great restyle you did for EE,
and thanks for the CP Theme.
Jeremy
March 26, 2007
The default theme makes me cry. This one makes me happy.
Andy
March 26, 2007
Ooooh, I like! A lot! Thanks Jesse!
Derik Lolli
March 26, 2007
Jesse, You are a god amongst mere mortals. It is obvious we are all designers when a clean interface gets this kind of reaction. But seriously, the purple was painful to work with. This changes everything. Thanks.
Simon Clayson
March 26, 2007
This is fantastic work. Thank you.
Allan White
March 26, 2007
Ah, so nice to have more CP options. Many thanks for making this public. It looks really sharp.
purefusion
March 27, 2007
Rock on Jesse! I was just wondering if the backend could be themed, and whether anyone has made a theme for it. This is for the win man!
Kathy
March 30, 2007
Sweeeeeet! Thanks!
Joel
March 30, 2007
Finally it looks as good as it works. Thanks.
mel
March 30, 2007
sweetness! Thank you for sharing!
Adam Wiggall
April 02, 2007
Thanks Jesse!
As a newbie to EE I am very thankful for your work, not only on this theme, but the other articles you have published.
Keep up the good work.
Adam
C
April 03, 2007
Thanks for sharing – it is lovely!
Cecil
April 04, 2007
Thanks Jesse!
Any chance of the EE forum templates to really say good bye to purple?
bob
April 07, 2007
this looks so much better than the standard theme. thanks.
Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain
April 10, 2007
The feedback on this post is hilarious… we truly are geeks aren’t we? And no… there’s no forum theme in the immediate future for me Cecil. I’ve yet to do one of those :/
Betty Nicole
April 18, 2007
That’s hawt!! Thanks so much!!
Erwin Heiser
April 19, 2007
To be honest I was anticipating this :)
Thank you so much Jesse. Cheers!
Jeroen van Duffelen
April 21, 2007
Yo Jesse, great work! This theme makes it worth using EE for customers too!!! Nice and clean – very pro!
Grtz!
Louis
April 27, 2007
I’ve been under a rock, WOW very nice. Thank you Jesse.
bob dylan
April 29, 2007
Love it, thanks man!
Anton
May 02, 2007
A bit late to comment on this, but… Fantastic! Bravo! Yay! I love it!
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Dan Rubin
May 02, 2007
Very nice indeed… we’re just starting to use EE for some projects, this will make for a nicer admin view for our clients :)
Kurt
May 03, 2007
Very nice—thank you! Now if I could just find an EE forum theme that was this nice I’d be all set.
joekodotnet
May 05, 2007
much appreciated. thanks for taking the time to do this and share!
Cesar
May 07, 2007
This is a very nice looking theme, thank you very much for producing it. I love it.
Jesse Schutt
May 10, 2007
Using this on all my EE projects! I even went back to some of the older ones and installed this! Thanks so much!
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May 14, 2007
Looks Great Thank You!
Dave Foy
May 17, 2007
Oh my goodness – you’ve just made me so happy. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Ken
May 19, 2007
Great work Jesse!
Scott Mackenzie
May 21, 2007
Oh thank you! This is the next best thing to an overhaul of the admin interface.
Bobby
May 22, 2007
Thanks for the beautiful control panel theme. It is wonderful!
Robbin
May 22, 2007
CHEERS!
... I only changed the text-area font to monospace 12px.
Thank you.
Karls
May 23, 2007
Ok,
I am new to EE, and loving it so far, but I cannot seem to get this theme working. :(
What am I doing wrong? I uploaded it into the cp_themes folder, it shows up in the theme selector in My Account, but it is not working for me. Do I need to have more than the Core version to get it running?
I feel dumb
Karls
Karls
May 24, 2007
Am I the only one who can’t get it to work? :(
Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain
May 24, 2007
Sorry Karls, I was a bit busy the past couple of days :)
After you make the change in your “My Account” area, do you get an error message? What happens?
There is a theme setting in the Admin area that you can try to toggle as well.
Karls
May 24, 2007
Hi Jesse,
I tried changing in the Admin Area (System Preferences > Control Panel Settings) to 31three. Nothing happened. So I went to My Account, and changed it there also. This is what I see.
I am suspecting it is something that I did incorrectly when uploading the files, but I think I placed in in the correct place.
What do you think it could be? It is not on a Windows server either.
giovanni
May 27, 2007
@Karls: upload the 31three folder to the themes folder at the root of your site ie – themes/cp-themes/31three/
Then login to your CP and under ADMIN tab go to >System Preferences >Control Panel Settings and there you will find a drop down menu where you can choose/switch to the 31 flavour and then hit UPDATE… and voila! ... you will be one happy fella. cheers
Karls
May 28, 2007
The weird thing is, that’s what I did (screenshot).
Karls
May 28, 2007
Ok, I figured out why it did not work before. CSS is case-sensitive and for some reason, the folder I uploaded before was named ‘31three’ instead of ‘31Three’. I am not sure how it got renamed (I probably did – not sure why), but it now works like a charm. Thanks giovanni and Jesse!!
D-pan
June 02, 2007
非常喜欢这个ExpressionEngine后台模板,收藏了。谢谢!
Mark
June 11, 2007
Thanks for taking the time to make the new theme. its beautiful
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Vitamin C
June 11, 2007
greatful
markus klassen
June 13, 2007
thanks, it looks great