6 Plugins for Branding the WordPress Admin

As a freelance web developer and owner of WPCustomization, I’ve used WordPress with many clients – and they love it. WordPress is easy to learn and its back-end is easy enough to customize for certain situations. Not many visitors ever see the back-end of a WordPress-powered site, but it’s always nice to brand the admin a bit – whether it’s a structural overhaul or simple color changes. With that said, we’ve decided to collect six plugins that are quite useful when branding the WordPress administrator area. Check it out.
The next few plugins let you customize the login screen. Some are simple and let you change the logo, others extend to color schemes and page structure.
Login and Logos
WPCandy’s Login Logo plugin
Looking for simple? We have simple. The Login Logo plugin lets you change the logo on the login screen (what else?). Simply upload the file, paste the…

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