[wp-hackers] Admin Color Schemes: generic classes for colors?

[Barry Ceelen]

I was playing around with this stuff as well.
As far as I can tell you can only programmatically access the colours used for the preview color swatches and the icon colours:

global $_wp_admin_css_colors;
$color_scheme = get_user_option( 'admin_color' );

$_wp_admin_css_colors[$color_scheme]['colors']
$_wp_admin_css_colors[$color_scheme]['icon-colors']



On 20 Dec 2013, at 16:58, Nikola Nikolov <nikolov.tmw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Right - I didn't notice that :doh:
> 
> Now I see what you mean, and besides probably copy-pasting the values(or
> using JS as you suggested) - which is obviously a very tedious approach, I
> don't think you have a lot of options there.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Dino Termini <dino at duechiacchiere.it>wrote:
> 
>> Hi Nikola,
>> 
>> WordPress already adds the current color schema class to the body tag. But
>> then I don't see anything in the CSS that I could use to recycle, let's
>> say, the admin sidebar current background color and use it as the
>> background color for my metabox headers. Yes, I could do this in jQuery,
>> but I was hoping for a pure CSS approach.
>> 
>> Thank you and happy holidays,
>> Dino
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/20/13, 10:49 AM, Nikola Nikolov wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Dino,
>>> 
>>> Why don't you try something like this:
>>> 
>>> function add_color_scheme_class( $class ) {
>>>     $color = get_user_option( 'admin_color' );
>>>     $class .= $color ? " admin-color-{$color} " : ' admin-color-fresh '/*
>>> "fresh" is the default */;
>>> 
>>>     return $class;
>>> }
>>> add_filter( 'admin_body_class', 'add_color_scheme_class', 10 );
>>> 
>>> That should add the classes automatically for you - I know that you wanted
>>> a core solution, but I assume for that it would be best to open a
>>> ticket(you can do that here - http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ ).
>>> 
>>> Greetings,
>>> Nikola
>>> 
>>> PS: I haven't tested the code, but it should work just fine.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Dino Termini <dino at duechiacchiere.it
>>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi folks,
>>>> 
>>>> we are trying to adapt our plugin to the new admin color schemes, and it
>>>> would be great if we could have generic CSS class declarations that allow
>>>> us to apply the current scheme's background/text colors to our elements.
>>>> Something like
>>>> 
>>>> .admin-color-flat .sidebar-background-color{ background-color: #.... }
>>>> .admin-color-vineyard .sidebar-background-color{ background-color: #....
>>>> }
>>>> 
>>>> This would allow plugin developers to leverage those schemes without
>>>> having to reinvent the wheel every time, and would make their plugins
>>>> adapt
>>>> to any third-party color scheme people may be using on their site.
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Dino.
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