After ~20 years with WordPress, this new admin UI finally broke me
I've been using WordPress for nearly 20 years. I stayed through all the changes, redesigns, editor wars, UI experiments and everything else.
But this new admin experience honestly killed it for me.
The old WordPress admin wasn't beautiful. It wasn't modern. But it was fast, familiar and efficient. After years of daily work, muscle memory matters. I manage multiple websites and spend hours inside wp-admin every day. The interface used to disappear and let me work.
Now it feels like everything became bigger, brighter, more distracting and less practical.
The colors feel off. The editor UI feels bloated. Random visual elements pull attention for no reason. Even the site icon/favicon during post creation somehow manages to distract me.
I never thought I'd say this, but I am seriously considering creating a plugin just to bring back a classic admin feel and workflow so I can work efficiently again.
And if many long-term users feel the same way, maybe this says something.
P.S. Huge greetings to the designer responsible for this redesign. This may genuinely be the worst admin UI change I've experienced in WordPress.
Edit:
Am I the only one feeling this?
I've used WordPress for nearly two decades and this is genuinely the first update that made me want to change the admin itself instead of adapting to it.
Are long-time users actually happy with this redesign, or are people silently installing plugins and CSS fixes already?