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Bristlecone Admin Styles

Style control for the WordPress admin (/wp-admin/).

by Bristlecone IT Services · github.com/bits-freeware/bits-wp-admin-styles · website

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/bits-freeware/bits-wp-admin-styles/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
Readme github.com/bits-freeware/bits-wp-admin-styles ↗

WordPress plugin by Bristlecone IT Services. Curated, self-hosted fonts for WordPress admin list tables.

Plugin homepage: https://bristleconeit.com/bristlecone-admin-styles/.

Development repository: https://github.com/Zyniker13/bits-wp-admin-styles.

The GitHub repo is bits-wp-admin-styles. The plugin folder / text domain / bootstrap slug is bristlecone-admin-styles (plural).

Requirements

  • WordPress 6.4+
  • PHP 8.4+

Install

  1. Copy this directory into wp-content/plugins/ (folder name can stay bits-wp-admin-styles or be bristlecone-admin-styles).
  2. Activate Bristlecone Admin Styles.
  3. Open Bristlecone → Admin Styles.
  4. Enable custom admin fonts and choose a family. The default is off.

There is no Composer install step.

What v1 styles

When enabled and the family is not “System default”, the plugin enqueues CSS only on Posts → All Posts (edit-post / edit.php with post_type=post). It targets .wp-list-table text (headers, row titles, cells, row actions). It does not load on:

  • Dashboard
  • Pages list
  • The post editor (post.php / post-new.php)
  • The front end
  • The admin menu or admin bar

The option bristlecone_admin_styles_settings stores { enabled, font_family, scopes }. scopes defaults to ['edit-post'] and is the expansion point for later /wp-admin/ coverage. Do not treat that list as permanently one screen.

Fonts

Allowlisted keys only (no free-text CSS):

Key Label Source
default System default (no override) WordPress core fonts
monospace System monospace OS stack
inter Inter Bundled WOFF2
source-sans-3 Source Sans 3 Bundled WOFF2
ibm-plex-sans IBM Plex Sans Bundled WOFF2
ibm-plex-mono IBM Plex Mono Bundled WOFF2

License notes for bundled faces: assets/fonts/NOTICE.

Bristlecone menu and future Markdown

This plugin registers a top-level Bristlecone menu (slug bristlecone, capability manage_options, custom bold B icon) only when that parent is not already present. The submenu is Admin Styles (page slug bristlecone-admin-styles). The auto-duplicate “Bristlecone / Bristlecone” first submenu is removed when this plugin created the parent.

Do not change bits-markdown in this repository. When Markdown later moves off Settings → Bristlecone Markdown, it should attach like this:

  1. Drop add_options_page( …, 'bristlecone-markdown', … ).
  2. Use the same parent-guard: create slug bristlecone only if $GLOBALS['admin_page_hooks']['bristlecone'] is empty (so either plugin can stand alone).
  3. add_submenu_page( 'bristlecone', 'Bristlecone Markdown', 'Markdown', 'manage_options', 'bristlecone-markdown', … ).
  4. Keep the page slug bristlecone-markdown. Submenu label is Markdown.
  5. If Markdown created the parent, remove_submenu_page( 'bristlecone', 'bristlecone' ) to avoid the duplicate first item.

See the comments on Settings::register_menu() in includes/Settings.php.

Uninstall

Deleting the plugin via WordPress runs uninstall.php, which removes bristlecone_admin_styles_settings.

License

GPL-2.0-or-later. See LICENSE. Bundled fonts keep their SIL OFL 1.1 terms.