UPDATE - No, I haven’t forgotten about my promised release date, Fluency is about 99% ready, but there a couple of small things left that I want to finish off tomorrow (hopefully I’ll be able to test it with the final release of WP2.5 by then as well) And who knows depending on how things go it might still be released on the 10th…at least for you North American people. It will be worth the wait.
Click the image above for a larger preview of Fluency.
The good people at WordPress are gearing up for the launch of version 2.5, and one of the biggest changes is that redesigned admin interface. Like many I’ve never been a huge fan of the standard design of previous versions, and while the redesign has improved the overall feel, its still not exactly what I would like.
Currently, and for as long as I’ve been running WordPress I’ve been using Steve Smith’s awesome Tiger Admin plugin. When WordPress 2.3 came out there were a few changes to the structure and styles in parts of the admin interface which weren’t catered for by ‘Tiger’. I liked it so much that I spent some time going through and fixing up the little bits here and there that had been thrown out of wack.
A few days ago when I downloaded one of the nightly builds of WP2.5 I thought I’d test ‘Tiger’ to see how it would hand the new admin. Well, turns out it doesn’t handle to too well. Too much has changed, and this gave me the perfect excuse to put together an admin theme of my own. Fluency was born. I’m surprised how quickly the majority of it came together, and there aren’t too many more things that I need to do before next weekend.
I’ll save the full details until its released (March 10 to coincide with the release of WP2.5), but you can check out a preview screen shot that Ive uploaded to flickr to whet your appetites. Check out the preview here
