My good friend John Chow recently discovered a hot-off-the-press plug-in for WordPress. If you’re tired of how the dashboard and administration tools look in your default WordPress install, then maybe you should check out the WordPress Tiger Administration Plug-in. The plug-in, which you can download here, doesn’t actually change any of the functionality of the dashboard, but rather just moves a few things around and changes the physical appearance to something that may be a little more pleasing to the eye.

On the plus side, the WordPress Tiger Administration Plug-in works perfectly fine in Safari and Firefox, but it does not work with Internet Explorer. This is because IE, the world’s most popular web browser (if only because it’s the one installed on all Windows computers), does not currently comply to CSS2 specifications on which this plug-in is based. Thankfully, the plug-in will automatically detect whether it can do its thing or not, reverting back to the old look if necessary on a case-to-case basis.

Personally, I think I’ve gotten too used to the standard dashboard to make the leap. And no, there is no official relationship with Mac OS X Tiger.