It’s been a while between updates, mostly due to the time spent working on getting Hahlo4 finished, but with that out of the way it was time to update Fluency to work with the latest version of WordPress. The big news is that Fluency is now hosted in the WordPress plugins directory, meaning that you will be able to use the built-in plugin installer, and auto update features in WordPress when new version are released.

You can get more details, and grab Fluency 2.1 from the WordPress plugin directory here.

New features

There aren’t mountains of new features but there a couple worth mentioning. I’ve added a ‘Fluency Options’ page, which can be found under the ‘Settings’ menu, there are just two options for the moment. Both were requests from users, you can disable the Fluency style on the login page, and you can also specify a custom logo to be displayed on the login page (this works with the Fluency login style turned on or off)

For few versions now WordPress has come with two default admin color schemes, but up until now Fluency has only had a grey-based scheme. I’ve now added full support for a Classic/Blue color scheme, based on whichever color scheme you have selected in you user profile on your blog.

With the new admin interface in WP2.7 a collapsible menu was introduced allowing you to ‘minimize’ the menu to just show the icons for the various top level items. I’ve now added support for this back into Fluency 2.1 and the collapsed menu should function as it does in the default admin.

Bug fixes

I’ve fixed a few bugs in the hover menu code, so it should behave better when you have lots of items in your settings submenu. I’ve also tweaked the hot keys support so that you can access more than just the first 9 items in a submenu.

If you find a bug, please let me know, and if possible provide steps which can be used to reproduce the problem.

Please see the Fluency page for more details about updated plugin support, info on what browsers are supported and additional screenshots.