Title: Comprehensive Appearance Admin
Author: Martin Robbins
Published: <strong>June 13, 2015</strong>
Last modified: September 26, 2015

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used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Comprehensive Appearance Admin

 By [Martin Robbins](https://profiles.wordpress.org/santeven/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/comprehensive-appearance-admin.0.1.4.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comprehensive-appearance-admin/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comprehensive-appearance-admin/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comprehensive-appearance-admin/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comprehensive-appearance-admin/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/comprehensive-appearance-admin/)

## Description

Display a better, comprehensive Appearance Menu in the Dashboard and in the front-
end Toolbar.

Where they are not present, adds links to the various customizer sections/panels
and to the corresponding old-school admin appearance pages.

Tested to WordPress 4.4-alpha1-34565.

## Screenshots

[⌊The dashboard appearance menu⌉⌊The dashboard appearance menu⌉[

The dashboard appearance menu

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## Installation

Download the plugin zip file

Upload via dashboard > plugins > add new > upload

Activate the plugin

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Comprehensive Appearance Admin” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Martin Robbins ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/santeven/)

[Translate “Comprehensive Appearance Admin” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/comprehensive-appearance-admin)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/comprehensive-appearance-admin/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/comprehensive-appearance-admin/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/comprehensive-appearance-admin/)
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## Changelog

#### 0.1.4

 * Account for the toolbar top-level customize node (new in 4.3)
 * Correct dashboard links to the old-school custom header and custom background
   admin pages

#### 0.1.3

 * Correct both links directly to the customizer nav_menu panel now that its url
   has been redefined in 4.3-beta1

#### 0.1.2

 * Add all links explicitly as new instead of CSS-unhiding the existing core links
 * Does not modify any core links
 * Position dashboard old-school links to the bottom of the appearance menu
 * Position toolbar old-school links into a single fly-out menu to the bottom of
   the appearance menu

#### 0.1.1

 * Added toolbar appearance menu link directly to the menu customizer

#### 0.1.0

 * Original release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.1.4**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.3.34**
 * Tags
 * [admin appearance pages](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin-appearance-pages/)
   [dashboard appearance pages](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard-appearance-pages/)
   [toolbar appearance menu](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/toolbar-appearance-menu/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comprehensive-appearance-admin/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Martin Robbins ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/santeven/)

## Support

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