New blog: Admin theme redesign

[markus-th]

On 6/7/2025 at 10:54 AM, markus-th said:

I use the RepeaterMatrix in most of my installations to build page content.

To make elements visually easier to grasp, I use the option to adjust the colors in the item headers.

Unfortunately, this no longer works with the new theme.

Original:

New Default:

New default with @ryan's admin-tweak.css

 

Unfortunately, it still doesn't work.

@diogo Not such an easy fix after all?

[diogo]

@markus-th I had this on my list, but somehow didn't get to doing it. Yes, it should be an easy fix.

[AndZyk]

Is it possible to change the color of links in the new admin theme?
I have set a new main color in the module settings and in the admin.css with --pw-main-color, like recommended.

But the links of modules or the login screen have still this styling:

a, .uk-link {
    color: #e83561;
    text-decoration: none;
    cursor: pointer;
}

There seems to be no CSS variable. Is this intentional?

Regards, Andreas

[adrian]

@AndZyk @ryan @diogo - also reported here: https://github.com/processwire/processwire-issues/issues/2110

[nbcommunication]

@ryan,

You'd mentioned at some point that existing installs could retain the old theme and perhaps users prompted to update to the new one. At the moment if I upgrade an existing site to the dev branch, the new theme is enabled by default. This breaks any custom TinyMCE styling as the new theme overrides it.

Are you planning to implement this prior to the next master version?

Ideally for us, given we have several hundred sites which we update to the latest master when it is available, nothing would change for the users. We could then turn on recommending a theme upgrade on a per site basis, or if we choose to, force the upgrade on the users.

Cheers,

Chris