The Material Board plugin for WordPress updates the appearance of your site's dashboard to a sleeker, more contemporary design based on Google's Material Design Guidelines. This plugin preserves your existing dashboard layout, avoids making any significant alterations, and doesn't include any branding or promotional content. It's straightforward to use and comes at no cost.

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Installation

Material Board is available on the WordPress Plugin Directory (link) and can be installed from the plugins page in your admin dashboard.

Manually

• Download the latest release of Material Board here,
• On your WordPress dashboard go to Plugins > Add New,
• Click the Upload Plugin button near the header,
• Select the downloaded zip archive,
• Finally, activate the Material Board plugin.

Customization

Head over to Appearance > Material Board to customize the dashboard colors and looks. Here are some of the available options:

• Theme (Light, Dark, and System)
• Colors (Primary and Accent colors)
• Toggle Rounded Corners
• Font (DM Sans, Roboto, Mona, Hubot, or WordPress)
• Header Font (Serif or sans serif)
• Icons (Material or WordPress)
• Large App Bar (Bar or Menu on top)

Languages

• English
• French (Français)
• German (Deutsch)
• Turkish (Türkçe)

Known Issues

• Automatic system theme setting does not take effect until after two page refreshes.

Setup & Build

Check out the SETUP.md file to get started on setting up the developer environment and building the project.

Contribution

Feel free to submit a pull request for one of the following:

• New features
• Language translation (Crowdin Page)
• Support third-party plugins or themes
• Fixing bugs and security vulnurabilities

Licenses

Material Board, AGPL License 3.0.

This project depends on the following third-parties:

• Adobe's DM Sans Font, SIL Open Font License 1.1
• Adobe's DM Serif Font, SIL Open Font License 1.1
• GitHub's Mona Sans Font, SIL Open Font License 1.1
• GitHub's Hubot Sans Font, SIL Open Font License 1.1
• Google's Roboto Font, Apache License 2.0.
• Google's Material Design Icons, Apache License 2.0.
• Community Material Design Icons, SIL Open Font License 1.1.
• TinyColor, MIT License.