[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #62847: Admin Themes as a 3rd level of theming

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#62847: Admin Themes as a 3rd level of theming
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 Reporter:  jonmojo          |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Themes           |    Version:
 Severity:  minor            |   Keywords:
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 Hi all,

 I’m a long time user and developer on WordPress and so have a fairly good
 understanding of both the core and plugin environment.

 What I’d like to suggest is a new menu under ‘Appearance’ called ‘Admin
 Themes’. What I’m recommending is actually a 3rd layer of theming i.e.
 Admin (Normal WP Admin) -> Admin (backend theme) -> Front end (Existing
 themes).

 The purpose is to provide client site admin themes – It’s often the case
 that you develop a site for an organisation and they need specific menu
 options for settings in ‘their’ version of WordPress. They need to manage
 what’s relevant to them and quite often, there’s large elements of
 WordPress that are irrelevant.

 The reason I’m suggesting a third layer of ‘theming’ is for regular
 developers and users of WordPress, the WordPress admin area is
 reassuringly familiar and, once known, easy to navigate. If you bespoke
 this layer (as is possible and plugins exist), this site becomes
 unfamiliar to navigate and administer.

 The creation of an additional layer of theming allows for the theme access
 (e.g. What the logged in user sees) to be tied to the ACL (Roles and
 capabilities), without making applying those same ACL’s to the existing
 Admin menu structure as this can get really complicated.

 How this happens (of if it happens), I leave open to discussion.

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