3 Failed WP-Admin Projects, Let’s go for the 4th!

Two weeks ago I replaced /wp-admin/ on my own WordPress sites with /minn-admin/. This is my fourth attempt at building a WordPress backend replacement. This round I used Claude Design with Fable to build a standalone WordPress plugin. This how it started.

From idea to brand new WordPress plugin/website in record time: https://t.co/CwquV3QKf1. Thanks goes to Claude Design + Fable. This was just an idea not many hours ago. A few prompts later and here we are. Ask me anything. 🚀 pic.twitter.com/Qk6wb53Pcq— Austin Ginder (@austinginder) July 4, 2026

Creating a beautiful wp-admin UI is easy. Getting it functional enough for anyone to use it, that’s the hard part.

The WordPress admin is twenty years of accumulated chrome. Everybody who runs a site has a list of things they hate about it.…