Wider Admin Menu

Wider Admin Menu is a standalone plugin built, maintained & operated by the friendly folks over at MachoThemes .

Wider Admin Menu is a lightweight plugin that lets you set the width of your admin menu from the default 160px up to 300px .

A separate stylesheet is also included if you wish to avoid Yet Another Plugin. See FAQ.

This plugin will leave no trace! If you delete the plugin, all settings will be removed from the database. Guaranteed. However, simply deactivating it will leave your settings in place, as expected.

Option A:

1. 01Go to Plugins > Add New .
2. 02Search for “wider admin menu”.
3. 03Click “Install Now”.

Option B:

1. 04Download the zip file.
2. 05Unzip it on your hard drive.
3. 06Upload the wider-admin-menu folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.

Option C:

1. 07Download the zip file.
2. 08Upload the zip file via Plugins > Add New > Upload .

Finally, activate the plugin.

By default, the plugin will set the width of the admin menu to 200px . Go to Settings > Wider Admin Menu to select a new width.

I don’t need a plugin. Can I just add some code to my stylesheet?

Sure. That’s actually how this plugin started out. If you simply need a wider admin bar and you’re cool with CSS then try this:

Look in the plugin’s /css folder for the file wider-admin-menu.css .

Then either copy its contents to your theme’s stylesheet,

OR

copy the file to your theme folder and add this to your theme’s functions.php to load it:

function wider_admin_menu() { wp_enqueue_style( 'wider-admin-menu', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/wider-admin-menu.css' ); } add_action( 'admin_enqueue_scripts', 'wider_admin_menu' );