The Best Admin Themes And Templates Ready For Download

If you’ve worked for some time as a web designer you must know that the best admin themes and templates are not free, in fact they are premium and they cost something but don’t worry, not much considering the quality/price ratio. You will find them pretty useful and that’s an understatement. I’ve discovered that they can give you a big help in creating for the client a modern and full of features dashboard for the administration area of the site. Some of these below are practically CSS and HTML templates but look out for those that are in fact Content Management Systems, those are the life savers sometimes.

Profi Admin – Administration for the professionals – $22

Profi Admin is a clean and simple style template but it’s complexity and expandability goes beyond expectations. The big visual menu creates the intuitive navigation while the tabbed and the hidden submenu expands the structure to 3 menu levels. Inspired by the WordPress Administration layout.

• Semantic, valid XHTML and CSS
• Well commented code (HTML/CSS/JavaScript)
• Powered by jQuery and jQuery UI
• Cross-browser compatible
• Sortable and togglable portlets – similar to WordPress admin
• FLOT plugin for charts
• Modal box example (click on the mail icon at the top to test)
• 3 level navigation supported
• Large & iconized Main Menu – with blend effect on hover.
• Tabbed menu
• Hidden “More” menu (Click on More Submenus link in the tabbed menu for a demo)
• Closable notification messages
• WYSIWYG Editor on defined textareas.
• All-Box checkbox for selecting all checkboxes in a table
• Includes full icon packs used in the theme
• 5 button styles
• Photoshop source files with everything included, sliced, layered and named.

Simpla Admin – $22

Simpla Admin is a professional template with a beautiful and user friendly interface. With various smart and intuitive jQuery functions, navigating the interface is a breeze.

• Semantic, valid XHTML and CSS
• Well commented code
• Liquid layout – content resizes to the user’s window
• Powered by jQuery
• Cross-browser compatible
• Degrades well – functional without Javascript
• 3 Colour schemes: Green, Blue and Red included – See the screenshots (new colour schemes can easily be created with the included .psd file)
• Smart content box: tabbed content and minimizable header (click the box title to minimize)
• Accordion Main Menu
• Modal window on any element (click “3 Messages” in the sidebar for a demonstration)
• Closable Notifications with smooth animation
• Large, visual shortcut buttons
• WYSIWYG Editor on any textarea
• Smart Check-all-checkboxes function (check the first checkbox to check all)
• .PSD file with everything included, layered and named

The template utilizes very few plugin scripts (most functions are hand coded) so the code is very lightweight and easy to manage/modify.

Complete Liquid Admin Control Panel – $22

Complex Liquid Admin template that contains a login page as well as a modular content page that includes all the elements you could possibly need in your admin. From these elements you should be able to generate any required page.

Liquid as opposed to a fixed size means all the screen real-estate is used in the most efficient manner possible and also eliminates compatibility issues with non-standard, very low or very high screen resolutions.

Admintasia – Powerful backend admin user interface – $14

Admintasia is a complete backend administration user interface that has the flexibility to house any kind of application. It loads last, it’s intuitive and easy to use, it uses only three small images and it also looks good.

Admintasia’s layout is very customizable. With the help of my helper CSS classes you can, for example divide the main content area into one big box and two small ones, or three smaller one, or two big ones. You want two notification boxes side by side? No problem, just add a css class and you’re done and this goes for almost all elements. Everything is fluid. Also, there is an option in the sidebar from which you can set a fixed page width.

Boxie Admin – $14

Modern looking design, easy to use user interface (UI) and cool user experience (UX).

Made in terms of progressive enhancement (using CSS3 properties in order to get as clean code as possible with less images etc.) and with graceful degradation in mind = looks great in modern browsers and good in older browsers as well (just take a look at live preview).

Really clean & professional code using the latest web standards optimized for fast loading, accessibility, semantics and so on. Also using jQuery.

Cleanity Complete Admin / CMS Skin – $17

• Valid XHTML / CSS
• Light XHTML with Fast Load
• Flash Like Animated Drop Down Navigation
• Rounded Corners with No Images
• Accordion Side Menu
• Modal Boxes on any Element Desired
• Jquery based Calendar
• Tabbed Lists (Also available for any element)
• Quick Visual Links with Graphical Navigation
• Nicely Styled Forms
• Visual WYSIWYG Editor on Desired Textareas
• 3 Columns + 2 Columns Wide Version
• Works in all Major browsers both in Windows & Mac OSX

Adminus – Beautiful admin panel interface – $22

Adminus is a stylish admin panel template, ready to be implemented as the back-end interface of your application. The template uses smart jQuery scripts and effects, which degrades perfectly.

Adminus comes in 3 premade skins – blue, green and red and with the included PSDs, you can style it in any colors.

• Valid code
• Liquid and fixed layout
• Cross-browser compatible
• Unobtrusive jQuery powered effects
• Implemented WYSIWYG editor
• Beautiful, customizable graphs
• Easy tabs on any block
• Dropdown menus, 4 level deep
• Working AJAX / PHP file upload
• Super cool image management mini menus
• Date picker
• Sortable tables
• Custom select form element
• Fancy modal boxes
• Stylish notifications with nice fade in and fade out effect
• Image preloading
• Custom font with @font-face
• 3 premade skins – Blue, Green and Red (see the screenshots)
• Easy skin customization with the provided PSD files

Constellation complete admin skin – $22

Constellation is a powerfull admin skin for building advanced backends, both for desktop and mobile users. It provides a wide range of styles from data visualization to lists and calendars, all fluid and nestable. This skin is build on HTML5 and CSS3 , and is powered by jQuery for maximum user experience.

• HTML5 & CSS3 markup
• Fluid or fixed layout, based on 960 grid system
• 40+ elements styles, with multiple variations
• jQuery powered, fully fonctional even if JS is disabled
• Satellite backend pages are provided: login, error with report sending, 404’s…
• Mobile version included – for iPhone, Android and all webkit-based mobile browsers – compatible with main template content styles
• All elements are fluid (sizes are in EMs): resize just by adding a class
• Detailled documentation with complete styles and functions references
• 2 background colors : light and dark

Wide Admin – Powerful Backend Interface – $14

Wide admin is a powerful lightweight backend interface application, ready to use for any software / CMS you want.

• Sortable and togglable dialog windows
• Liquid (fluid) layout, the content resizes to user’s window up to 1600px
• Custom jQuery effects to improve the looks of the theme
• Two skins – Smooth gray, and silk black
• Well organized files
• Commented code, extended documentation
• Easy to build other themes due to well structured css files
• Valid XHTML and CSS , crossbrowser compatible. CSS3 (for rounded corners and shadows) is optional
• Navigation bar with unlimited menu levels
• Icons included for dashboard buttons use or other elements
• Tooltips available for any item
• Modal windows / dialogs
• Closeable notification messages
• Fluid Accordions, Tabs, form elements, etc
• Full support / assistance included

UltraAdmin Full Control Panel 4 Skins – $22

Advanced yet easy to use administration panel template. It includes 4 color schemes (the very hot aurora graphic skin, white, blue and dark skins) and is divided in a login page and two content pages that includes all the the elements you could possibly need in your admin. From these elements you can generate any required page.

eManager – $22

Fully CSS /xHTML + jQuery Theme for implementing in your app. The basic idea of this theme is doing something really good looking and very interactive, using a nice & clean user interface.

Administry Admin Template – $17

It is best for content management systems, website backends or as a standalone skin for a web application.

• Fully HTML5 + CSS3 compliant
• Crossbrowser compatible
• jQuery
• WYSIWYG editor
• Sortable datatables
• Tab-based navigation
• Charts and graphs
• Custom modal popups
• Form validation
• Styled forms, headings and tables
• Well commented code

Smart Admin High End CMS Theme – $14

This cutting edge theme is best suitable for almost any CMS interface, particularly for serious ones.

Enabled with jquery based tabbed boxes inside pages, this theme is highly user-friendly and stylish.

Flexy – liquid admin skin – $17

Advanced and easy to use administration theme which comes in 7 different colour variations. The theme is liquid, which means the width of the content area adapts to your browsers window size.

The template is divided into a login page and a content page that uses 4 different tabs to display the commonly used interface elements, needed to create an admin panel.

It comes with many easy to use javascript effects like tabs, datepicker, message dialog, rich text editor, closable elements etc. Allof these elements can be applied with the simple use of html classnames, no need to ever edit the javascript.

Smooth Admin – $14

Smooth Admin is a user friendly administration panel that comes in 6 premade color schemes which include blue, green, brown, purple, red and a greyish light blue. Additionaly you can stlye it any color you like using the included PSD file.

• Valid XHTML and CSS
• XHTML 1 .0 Strict
• Cross-browser compatible
• Fluid layout or Fixed Layout at 960 pixels
• 6 color schemes (see screenshots)
• Date Pickers, Styled Select Lists and Styled Submit Buttons
• Javascript based on the fast and stable jquery library
• Expandable / Collapsible Navigation Menu
• Quick Tabs located at the top of the page for quick navigation with drop down menus.
• TinyMCE Rich Text Editor for textareas.
• Charting and Graphs which is powered by jquery flot.
• Ability to use tabs on content boxes for content organization
• Tested and verified to work in all major browsers (IE,Firefox,Safari,Opera,Chrome)
• Includes Photoshop PSD file for further customization.

FreshCMS an almost complete CMS skin – $22

Tired and bored by all of the basic admin skins here, well there is a solution and it’s called FreshCMS. Amaze your clients with this CMS skin!

FreshCMS is a fresh kind of skin/theme, there is no similar kind of skin/theme here on ThemeForest! This skin/theme is almost complete(about 80%). This means that you can save some time in designing and building of a CMS . FreshCMS is packed with jQuery stuff like toggle, styleswitcher, delete content, sortable and more.

Meta Admin – $17

Advanced yet easy to use administration panel template. It includes 4 color schemes (blue, green, grey, red) and is divided in a login page and a content page that includes all the the elements you could possibly need in your admin. From these elements you can generate any required page.

Tableless CSS coding, cross-browser compatible and very stylish.

AdminTheme – $12

You’re a great php programmer, but you find your web applications not really visualy appealing? Ultimate Admin Theme is perfect solution for you and your web applications!

• Tableless;
• Full css and xhtml design;
• Dropdown menu;
• Two color schemes!
• some jQuery magic
• jQuery calendar(datepicker)
• editable textarea with markitup
• layered PSD included;
• valid XHTML 1 .0 Strict

AP Administration Panel – $12

The AP Administration Panel is a (html)admin skin that comes with lots of usable jQuery effects.

• working jQuery toggle
• working jQuery delete boxes/dialogs
• working drag and drop(sortables)
• working sortables(tables)
• working dropline menu
• jQuery calendar(datepicker)
• live editable fields
• select multiple checkboxes
• working WYSIWYG editor
• easy to use and customise jQuery cycle plugin
• easy to customise
• valid XHTML 1 .0 Strict
• working lightbox
• jQuery pngfix
• jQuery fade effect
• Layerd PSD file
• Supported by all brouwsers
• jQuery tabs

Admin Control Panel – $17

This is a very userfriendly admin template you can very well use for your own clients.

• Fully HTML5 compliant
• Awesome CSS3
• Crossbrowser compatible
• JQuery
• Easily customizable
• Easily switched to a liquid layout
• Confirmation tooltips
• WYSIWYG editor
• Datepicker
• Tab-based navigation
• Automatically generated charts
• Custom Modal popup (check the mailbox)

Admin Base – Stylish Admin Template – $14

Admin Base is a complete professional admin user interface that is both functional, stylish and flexible.

• Clean Functional Design
• Fluid Grid Layout
• jQuery / UI Powered
• Customizable Graphs
• CSS3 Enhanced
• Login Page Inlcuded
• Notification Boxes (With effects)
• Semantic, valid XHTML and CSS
• Cross Browser Compatible
• Well Commented Code

See Admin Interface – $22

See Admin Interface is new theme with a beautifull and accesible interface based on Jquery framework to make user interaction more pleasant.

• Semantic and valid code (XHTML & CSS )
• Well commented code (XHTML & CSS & Javascript)
• Easy to use & customize
• Fixed layout (960px)
• Groupped fast functions (6)
• Large header widget for charts or relevant data
• Two levels main menu
• Expandable main menu with submenus and the capability to add pins to show subintems when the menu is contracted
• Dropdown menu
• Cross browser compatible, IE6 support also
• Tooltips for errors/notifications/informations animated with Jquery
• Fluid elements (menus, tabs, form elements)
• Available with 4 colors
• PSD file contains groups and slices simply ready to create a new theme

WeAdmin – $14

WeAdmin is a clean and modern admin theme, ready to be structured as your software’s control panel. This template also uses well-known jQuery, jQuery UI scripts and effects.

• 4 Skins: Dark blue, Black, Red and Green
• Hide able menu
• Submenu with slide effect
• Fluid layout
• Ready to use login page
• Ready to use graphs (bar, line, pie and area)
• Ready to use calendar and date input
• Ready to use shortcut and nice shortcut’s notification
• Ready to use sidebar layout
• Ready to use modal window
• Hide able sub window
• WYSIWYG text editor
• Modal window
• Stylish notification boxes with fade in and fade out effect
• Images preloading
• PSD included
• Unobtrusive jQuery powered effects
• Valid HTML standard
• Free Icon Pack

ProManager v2.0 Customized Admin CMS Skin – $17

For the most part you can just follow the HTML with commented codes. The font I’ve used for the logo in case you are wondering is Myriad Pro Family, you can create new logo areas using the PSD files included here.

This theme is a flexible liquid layout with two columns and three menu options. This site is best suitable for a custom admin skins for a corporate business template. For a Navigation Colors and Content Background Color Settings Please follow below mentioned css files

TERMINATOR – 13 different Admin Backend pages – $22

Admin backend template that has a hell of a lot of features. It’s designed with cool “Storm Black / Aluminium” colors to make your backend even better than it is

• Fixed width design
• 3 level vertical navigation
• Large vertical sliding navigation containg the most importants navigation items
• Advanced dashboard
• Categories box
• Sliding boxes
• Unlimited variations for creating custom tables and boxes
• A lot of classes for creating custom columns and boxes
• Charting library
• Fancybox for lightbox effect and modal windows
• Datatables library for ordering, filtering and managing your content
• WYSIWIG editors – TinyMCE and jQuery WYSIWYG
• Well structured HTML & JavaScript code

Silky Admin – $17

Silky Admin is a simple, stylish and modern template for your website’s administration needs. It’s a super clean and lightweight interface that comes with various jQuery functions to make your life easier – try the demo!

The theme also comes with a Login Page, plus here are the main features:

• 7 Themes (or make your own)
• Semantic, valid XHTML and CSS
• Well commented code
• WYSIWYG Editor
• Sortable Tables
• Powered by jQuery
• Cross-browser compatible
• Modal window
• Closable Notifications with smooth animation
• Styled Forms, Headings and Tables
• Clean and Simple Design

Clean CSS Admin Multiskin – $17

We went classic with this admin template, it’s not as graphically intensive as our other ones, to achieve the level of simplicity and ease of use many of you are looking for. Of course, this template is also optimized for quick loading so administrating your site will be a fast and seamless task.

This admin panel includes 4 color scheme and is divided in a login page and a content page that includes all the the elements you could possibly need in your admin. From these elements you can generate any required page.

Color themes included : BLACK | WHITE /GREY | BLUE /GREEN | RED /TAN

This template is a great solution for everyone looking for a neat dark admin template but still want to keep their options open with lighter skins.

Titanium – $22

Titanium is an admin panel template with tons of features, including tabs, dialogs, tooltips, buttons, etc. It comes in three different themes, and it’s also very easy to add your own color scheme.

Contrary to most admin panel, which overwhelm the user with options, icons, and buttons, Titanium was made with one goal in mind: keep it simple. But simple doesn’t mean dumb: the template uses flexible markup that lets you change elements width, height, and placement, and all elements are provided in photoshop files as individual slices, which lets you easily change colors or styles.

FULLADMIN – web + mobile admin template – $12

FULLADMIN is a complete solution for your admin control panel template. Shipped with both web and mobile templates.
Mobile support: iPhone, iPod Touch, Android 2.2 and Opera mini

• Complete templates for web and mobile version
• Cool top menu, support touch screen device eg. iPad.
• Ready to use Left Shortcut menu
• Liquid layout
• 2 Level tab
• Ready to use login page
• Ready to use graphs (bar, line, pie and area)
• Ready to use date input
• Ready to use modal window
• WYSIWYG text editor
• Modal window
• Stylish notification boxes with fade in and fade out effect
• Images preloading
• PSD included
• Unobtrusive jQuery powered effects
• Valid HTML standard
• Free Icon Pack

Sharp Admin Template – $14

Sharp Admin is the ultimate CMS or administration template for the professionals. It comes with 5 themes but you can easily make your own, modification is simple and with it using jQuery UI it has some awesome functions such as accordion, tabs and sortable lists.

It’s ideal for content management systems, website backends or as a standalone skin for a web application.
It’s been tested in all major browsers, and comes with a well commented help file to help you hit the ground running.

The theme also comes with a Login Page as well as pages for typography, forms and demos of other features.

• Semantic, valid XHTML and CSS
• 4 Themes (or make your own)
• Well commented code
• WYSIWYG Editor
• Sortable Tables
• Powered by jQuery & jQuery UI
• Accordion
• Tabs
• Sortable List
• Calendar Control
• Cross-browser compatible
• Closable Notifications with smooth animation
• Styled Forms, Headings and Tables
• Clean and Simple Design
• CUFON Font Replacement

proAdmin Template – $17

This Admin Template is a web 2.0 skin for web based applications and CMSs. It’s just a HTML template. This theme is easy to integrate into existing projects or you can start new from scratch.

• Valid HTML and CSS
• Three templates; index.html, login.html and table.html
• Includes sidebars, tables, form fields, buttons, attention, text styles and more.
• Includes two PSD -files, login and index
• jQuery DropDown box
• Tabbed InterFace Using jQuery
• Code well documented and multipage read_me.pdf

Black Admin v2 – $14

Black Admin v2 is a nice and beautiful BLACK admin skin to integrate to your CMS or whatever you feel like integrating it to.

• Valid XHTML / CSS , semantic
• Commented code for easy integration
• Jquery with Jquery UI for powerfull management
• A liquid layout, resizez to 100% no matter your screen resolution
• Cross browser compatible
• Well documented
• 3 colors .css files included, but it’s extremly easy to change the color
• Jquery effects and animations
• And much much more…

FlexiAdmin Control Panel Liquid 4 Skins – $22

Advanced yet easy to use administration panel template. It includes 4 color schemes (blue, green, grey, red) and is divided in a login page and a content page that includes all the the elements you could possibly need in your admin. From these elements you can generate any required page.

Color themes included : BLUE | RED | GREEN | BLACK

Liquid as opposed to a fixed size means all the screen real-estate is used in the most efficient manner possible and also eliminates compatibility issues with non-standard, very low or very high screen resolutions.

UniAdmin – Flexible, Universal & Easy to implement – $17

Simple Admin theme that has everything you need to create any backend admin panel.

• Fluid design
• Box with tabs
• Box with sidebar
• Data table
• Quick edit table with forms
• Modal windows
• 4 different chart types
• Integrated calendar
• 2 different html edits
• Images displayed in lightbox
• Login page

iAdmin – $10

iAdmin is a powerful mobile admin template which you can run as a web app fullscreen on your iPhone or iPod Touch!

Do you have a custom website and you would like to be able to quickly check new comments, new users or post an article on the go with your iPhone? Are you building a website for a client and you would like to offer the same functionality along with a standard admin panel? Then iAdmin is the perfect solution for this job as it offers you all the essential features you need and even more to quickly build your mobile admin panel!!

When you add your functionality, you can host it online, add it through Mobile Safari to your home screen and run it fullscreen just like a native app! So everywhere you are with an internet connection, it’ll be a tap away!

Equinox Admin Panel 2 Skins – $22

This is a cool admin template that can also be used for business or general purpose sites.
It contains all the possible elements you need. Combining these elements can turn out any page useful in an admin panel.
It has a cool login page with remember me, forgot password, ajax validation and example php login script

- Three levels top main menu
- Horizontal animated item scroller (jquery)
- Optional tooltips for any item
- Separate windows design for increased flexibility
- Tab support for windows, two tab/window styles
- Search field
- Account mini-info display
- Complex table design with buttons, icons and checkboxes
- Dropdown action select menu
- Multiple page browsing design with next/previous buttons
- Footer menu
- Complete custom form elements with positive/negative feedback, formatting buttons, dhtml drop-down selector etc.
- Two types of info boxes
- Photo gallery design with lightbox support
- Vertical animated photo scroller (jquery)
- Secondary (inside page) vertical navigation
- Event calendar design
- Full content page design (one and two columns) with quote style, headings, list design etc.
- Messages (5 styles : positive, negative, neutral, tips, warnings)
- and some other smaller elemets

Note this is a html template, it is not an actual CMS .

GreyController – A Clean Web 2.0 Admin Panel – $14

I find designing an admin panel much different than a front-end of the site. You have to have a place for options, forms, and things that you don’t use a lot on a front-end of a website. GreyController gives you plenty of space to place each element. With two sidebars you’ll never run out of room for extra options. Collapsible boxes allow the user to edit what they want to see at that moment.

• XHTML strict & CSS (without CSS3 ) valid
• Use of CSS3 for eye candy
• Dynamically changes with the user’s resolution
• Separate login page.
• jQuery expandable boxes
• Option to have one or two sidebars by only adding a class to a div.

Karamel Admin – $14

Karamel Admin is an administrative panel with a flexible interface and a set of interface elements, which among other things contains a calendar with backlight days with events and statistics of visitors from Google Analytics.

• jQuery / UI Powered
• Google Analytics stats
• Hide able and resizable sidebar
• Fluid layout
• 4 level dropdown menu
• Icon-based tabmenu
• Events calendar
• CSS3 buttons (8 styles)
• 9 variations of styles of blocks
• Login page inlcuded
• WYSIWYG text editor
• PHP files included
• Notification Boxes (With effects)
• Cross browser compatible
• Well commented code

Real World Admin – $17

Real World admin is a multi-theme administration interface template with fixed and liquid layouts. Every page is designed to be as close to a real-world scenario as possible. 7 Full pages are provided. The template is easily extendable and well-documented. Layered PSD files for all 3 themes are provided.

• 3 Beautiful Themes – Sleek Wood, Clean Grey and Abstract Blue
• Fixed and Liquid layouts
• Valid XHTML Transitional code
• Layered PSD files for all 3 themes
• jQuery and jQuery UI powered
• Cross-browser compatible
• IE6 Blocker script for this outdated browser
• Sortable widgets with drag & drop functionality
• Numerous charts for your reports
• 2 types of calendars – full & inline
• Modal windows with ajax functionality
• Enhanced Forms via Uniform Plugin
• Sortable tables
• Interactive messages
• Week calendar with events
• 2 types of tooltips – as a regular tooltip and as context window
• Tasks management interface with expendable rows
• Interactive filterable lists
• Sortable tabs & lists
• Tree hierarchy interface
• Theme switcher with cookies
• CSS3 buttons and comment boxes
• Interactive progress bars
• Good Documentation

Fluency Admin for WordPress – Free

I haven’t uninstalled this plugin since I used it for the first time. It gives a whole new look to the WordPress dashboard. It has a lot of lovely features and a clean look.

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