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Dark Mode for WP Dashboard · Version history

Dark Mode for WP Dashboard changelog and version history

Latest version
1.3.11
Oct 5, 2026 (1 month ago)
Releases
28
since 2020
In the last year
11
about one every 13 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20202 releases
  • 20217 releases
  • 20226 releases
  • 20231 release
  • 20241 release
  • 202611 releases

202611 releases

  1. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.3.11Latest

    • Fixed: in the block editor, text typed into input fields was invisible — the web address box when adding a link, the block and pattern search, and the number and size fields in the sidebar. The field looked empty while you typed. The dark fill was painted on a layer that sits on top of the text ins…
    • Fixed: on WordPress 7, the Blocks / Patterns / Media tabs in the block inserter, the pattern categories (All, About, Banners…), the “Post” link at the start of the breadcrumb bar and the group headings in the command palette (⌘K) were dark text on a dark background. The highlighted command in the p…
    • Fixed: in the block editor, blocks you gave a light background — a white Group, a cream paragraph, a light Cover, a coloured table — showed their text in dark mode’s light grey, which was close to invisible on them. Each coloured block is now measured and given text that reads on its own background…
    • Fixed: editors on the public site of your website — front-end forms, forums, course and member areas — were dark for every visitor, including people who were not logged in. Dark mode now stays inside the dashboard
    • Fixed: switching dark mode on or off from the toolbar only changed the main post editor. Other classic editors on the same screen, such as the WooCommerce product short description or ACF text editor fields, kept the old colours until the page was reloaded. All of them now switch together, includin…
    • Fixed: saving another user’s profile — to change their email address, for example — quietly stored the default appearance as their own choice, so a site-wide default changed later no longer applied to them. A preference is now only stored when it actually differs
    • Fixed: deleting the plugin on a multisite network now removes its small housekeeping setting from every site, not only the current one

  2. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.3.10

    • Added: WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers) support — a different plugin from Code Snippets. Its editor panels and snippet list were unreadable in dark mode. Thanks to catmaniax
    • Fixed (docs): dark_mode_dashboard_css replaces the admin stylesheet rather than adding to it, and never reaches the post editor. Corrected, plus a new FAQ on adding your own CSS. Thanks to Trace Meek

  3. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.3.9

    • Added: support for the Code Snippets plugin. Its toolbar, snippet list, type navigation, import cards and drop zone, settings tabs and the dropdowns on the edit screen now follow dark mode instead of staying white. The code editor itself is left as it is: Code Snippets ships its own editor themes a…

  4. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.3.7

    • Fixed: the block editor’s writing area could end up unreadable — light text on a white canvas, or the theme’s dark text on our dark background. The canvas background was only ever coming from an inline style that WordPress discards when “Use theme styles” is switched off, and the canvas stylesheet…
    • Fixed: in WordPress 7 the post sidebar’s excerpt was almost invisible — near-black text on the dark panel, at 1.16:1 contrast. WP 7 rebuilt that sidebar on component primitives the plugin had never styled. Reported on the support forum
    • Fixed: the “Post” label beside the title in the editor’s document bar had the same problem, at 1.07:1
    • Fixed: the unapprove action on the comments screen, and the skip-to-content link that keyboard users land on first, were both below the readable threshold

  5. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.3.6

    • Added: Cocoon theme support. The Cocoon settings screen has a strip of 36 tabs that Cocoon paints with its own light backgrounds, so in dark mode they rendered as blank white rectangles with unreadable captions — reported in a review. Tabs, the active tab, the panel behind it and the template scree…

  6. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.3.5

    • Fixed: the block editor loaded the post content in light mode; switching to light and back made it dark. The editor renders the content in an iframe and the dark class was applied only once, before the editor finishes mounting its canvas — so the canvas WordPress ends up using never received it, an…
    • Fixed: the editor stylesheet was registered on a hook WordPress no longer wants for iframe styles, warning “added to the iframe incorrectly” on every editor load and relying on a compatibility shim; it now uses enqueue_block_assets

  7. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.3.4

    • Fixed: activating the plugin made the Gutenberg Custom HTML block preview render the site’s 404 page inside the sandboxed preview iframe (with console sandbox violations). Caused by a leftover reference to a deleted editor stylesheet; editor styles are now only registered when the file exists
    • Fixed: ACF Link field — the selected-link summary box rendered as a white island (ACF hardcodes a white background); now themed to the dark surface with a legible URL and visible external-link icon
    • Fixed: WooCommerce variable-product Variations panel — variation rows, headers, row separators, and inner fields rendered light; now fully dark
    • Fixed: WooCommerce product-data tab column showed a white strip below the last tab (the ul.wc-tabs pseudo-element fill); now dark
    • Fixed: AIOSEO focus keyphrase pills (metabox + editor sidebar) rendered as bright light “islands” — now themed to the dark surface, with legible keyphrase text, icons, inline rename field, and score colours
    • Fixed: AIOSEO Score button in the classic Publish box had a white background — now dark, keeping the green/orange/red score colour on the text and border
    • Fixed: Zamok module warning notices rendered as light-on-light — now a readable amber-tinted notice on dark
    • Fixed: WooCommerce Select2 multi-select chips (e.g. product tags) rendered as light-grey islands — now themed to the dark surface, including the remove (×) button

  8. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.3.3

    • Fixed: jQuery UI autocomplete dropdowns (tags, classic editor) now readable in dark mode
    • Fixed: Command palette (⌘K) icons and “No results found” text were invisible (dark on dark)
    • Fixed: Admin bar kbd shortcut badge no longer shows a light border

  9. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.3.2

    • Added: dark_mode_dashboard_editor_canvas filter to disable editor canvas dark mode
    • Fixed: Editor toggle now properly reverts Classic Editor content area to light mode

  10. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.3.1

    • Added: SmartCrawl SEO support
    • Added: Smush support
    • Fixed: Form table left/right padding on settings pages

  11. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.3.0

    • Complete CSS rewrite using CSS custom properties (design tokens)
    • Full block editor support including editor canvas (iframe)
    • Full Site Editor (FSE) support
    • Instant toggle — no page reload needed
    • Auto mode: follows your OS dark mode preference
    • Added dark_mode_dashboard_default_preference filter for developers
    • Added dark-mode body class for third-party CSS hooks
    • Fixed: PHP warning on user profile page (Undefined array key)
    • Fixed: Missing JS file causing console errors
    • Fixed: Dark mode toggle showing on frontend
    • Fixed: Unsanitized user meta save
    • Fixed: Block editor content area not fully dark
    • Fixed: Template parts / Site Editor pages not themed
    • Updated: All plugin-specific styles for current versions
    • Added: The SEO Framework support
    • Added: WP Nested Pages full page listing support
    • Fixed: WooCommerce order notes and order heading styling
    • Fixed: Plugin Check escaping and sanitization issues
    • Removed: MonsterInsights and WP to Twitter support
    • Removed jQuery dependency
    • Tested up to WordPress 7.0

20241 release

  1. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.2.4

    • Update: Added nonce to requests

20231 release

  1. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.2.3

    • Update: Added a toggle in the WP Admin toolbar. Also added support for Gutenberg Blocks by Kadence Blocks and fixed minor Gutenberg issues

20226 releases

  1. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.2.2

    • Fixed: Minor issue with ACF Group field

  2. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.2.1

    • Update: Added support for Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights & WP to Twitter

  3. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.2.0

    • Update: Added support for Yoast SEO Premium, Yoast SEO Local, Yoast SEO News, Yoast SEO Video, Yoast SEO WooCommerce & AIOSEO. Some minor fixes

  4. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.1.3

    • Update: Added Better Search Replace support

  5. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.1.2

    • Update: Added Advanced Custom Fields support

  6. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.1.1

    • Update: Fixed Gutenberg editor

20217 releases

  1. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.1.0

    • Update: Added the option to disable the dark mode in the user profile.

  2. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.0.7

    • Fixed: Issues with the graphs within the Jetpack plugin

  3. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.0.6

    • Fixed: Some issues with the Jetpack plugin

  4. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.0.5

    • Added: WooCommerce support

  5. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.0.4

    • Added: Nested Pages (plugin) support

  6. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.0.3

    • Update: Ownership change

  7. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.0.2

20202 releases

  1. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.0.1

  2. Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 1.0.0

Questions about Dark Mode for WP Dashboard’s releases

What is the latest version of Dark Mode for WP Dashboard?

1.3.11, released on Oct 5, 2026 (1 month ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Dark Mode for WP Dashboard updated?

11 releases in the last year, about one every 13 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from October 2020.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Dark Mode for WP Dashboard’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.