You can get more details, and grab Fluency 2.3.2 from the WordPress plugin directory here.
New features
- Compatibility with WordPress 3.0
- Add your own custom link to your custom logo on the WP login page
- Display your own custom logo at the top of the WP Menu once logged in.
- Turn Hover menus on/off
- Turn Hot Keys on/off
- iPad friendly menus
- Improved support for Opera 10.5+
- Added ‘Coffee’ color scheme (set in your profile) (2.3.1)
- .pot file now included for those wishing to translate Fluency (2.3.1)
- See changelog for full list of changes/additions
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Installation
There a couple of ways to install Fluency Admin on your WordPress blog.
First up, you can download it directly from the WordPress.org plugins directory (or via the link near the top of this page), and install it by following these steps:
- Upload the whole fluency admin directory to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/‘ directory
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Or, you can install it directory from the Admin section of your WordPress blog by following these steps:
- Under the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress select ‘Add New’
- Enter ‘Fluency Admin’ into the search box
- Choose the ‘install’ option on the right hand side of the Fluency Admin listing
Plugin support and testing
The vast majority of plugins should work fine with Fluency installed, however if you do come across one that doesn’t play nice please let me know so I can try and support it in a future release.
It’s worth noting that most issues that other plugins have are due to poorly designed/coded admin pages, some of this issues I can ‘hack’ around with css, but many should be fixed by the author of the plugin in question.
The following plugins have been tested with Fluency 2.3.1, any minors issues noted.
- Acronyms 1.6.2
- Akismet
- Analytics360
- cFormsII 11.1 (not pretty, but functional, the admin pages are too far from the WP standard)
- Contact Form 7
- Event Calendar
- Events Calendar 6.6
- Feedburner Feed Replacement
- Fresh Page (Flutter) 1.1
- Google Analytics
- Google XML Sitemaps
- Gregarious (not pretty, but fully functional)
- Headspace2 3.6.32
- MEENEWS 2.7.1 (not pretty, but seems to be functional)
- My Category Order 2.8.3
- NextGen Gallery 1.4.3
- One Click Plugin Updater 2.4.14
- OpenID
- Order Categories
- Page Management Dropdown 2.1
- PageMash 1.3.0
- Simple Tags
- Simple:Press 4.3.1 (not pretty at all, although still seems functional. Pulls in login stylesheet when logged out of forums — plugin problem, incorrectly calling ‘login_head’ action — this is not a Fluency problem)
- Subscribe To Comments
- TDO Mini forms 0.13.7
- WordPress Download Monitor
- WP-Polls 2.50
- WP-PostRatings
- wp-typogrify
- WP Movie Ratings
Browser Compatibility
Fluency Admin has been tested in the latest versions of Safari, Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer. Users of Internet Explorer may experience some display “issues” to to each browsers particular css-handling ability.
Internet Explorer 6 is NOT supported. It is an 8 year old browser which has now been superseded twice. Upgrade. Please.
Internet Explorer 7 works with the exception of a few display bugs. Internet Explorer 8 works pretty well except for the lack of CSS3.
Why doesn’t my plugin work with Fluency?
The majority of plugins should work without issue when Fluency is activated, however there are a few that don’t for one reason or another. If you come across a plugin that doesn’t play nice with Fluency please let me know so that I can address any issues in a future release.
Most common cause of a plugins incompatibility are highly custom admin pages, ie. those that don’t follow the standard WordPress admin design. In the majority of these cases its not particularly feasible for me to write a bunch of custom styles just to get them to play nice.
I’m using a version of WordPress other that 3.0.x and some things look weird, what can I do?
The obvious suggestion would be for you to upgrade to WordPress 3.0, if you are unable to do this for one reason or another then I would suggest downloading a previous version of Fluency (Fluency 2.2 for WP2.9 and Fluency 2.1 for WP2.8).
How do I get support for plugin X to be added to Fluency?
Leave a comment on my blog or post something in the support forums here on WordPress.org or on my Help site (http://help.deanjrobinson.com/groups/fluency-admin/).
Please note that I will not test be testing commercial paid for plugins or those that require me to signup to some spam laden site just to download and/or use them.
What languages does Fluency Admin support?
Thanks to some great Fluency users the following translations are included in the Fluency Admin download.
- Spanish translation (Thanks to David http://www.verasoul.com)
- Turkish translation (Thanks to Tercan Keskin http://www.tercan.net)
- Italian translation (Thanks to Daniele Raimondi http://www.w3b.it)
- Chinese translation (Thanks to JackyTsu)
Please note I am not responsible for any errors in these translations, they have been included ‘as provided’.
If you’re interested in supplying a translation for your language please get in contact, you’ll find the .pot file in the ‘languages’ folder to get you started.
Changelog
Version 2.3.2
- Fixes disappearing ‘hide menu’ button bug (hopefully)
- Fixes ‘Comments’ menu item link color when active
- Fixes ‘Comments’ link overlap when menu is collapsed and additional plugins have added top level menu items directly below it
- Footer overlap issue is being caused by bug in WordPress, bug reported (ticket #14098), now fixed in trunk
- Added Spanish translation
- Added Turkish translation
- Added Italian translation
- Added Chinese translation
Version 2.3.1
- Fixes menu position bug on Appearance > Menus
- Re-added two-column sub menus (when menu height exceeds window height)
- Change to the styling of the ‘update nag’. Protip: If you don’t like the styling, upgrade your WP install and it’ll go away ;)
- Add ‘Coffee’ color scheme (set in your profile)
- .pot file added to ‘languages’ folder (send me your translations and I’ll include them in future releases)
Version 2.3
- Updated css to work with changes introduced in 3.0
- Updated menu and page icons so that Grey and Blue styles match
- Fixed styles for ‘Register’ and ‘Lost Password’ pages
- Fixed Fluency option saving — customisations should now show instantly, no need for a second refresh
- Fixed minor bugs in menu styles — mainly to do with custom menu widths
- Fixed display of Akismet stats page when viewed from Comments menu
- Fixed overlap issue with BuddyPress admin bar
- Restyled ‘Manage Themes’ admin page
- New ‘filter bar’ style on edit post/page/link etc listing pages
- New style for comment/update notification bubbles
- Rewrote menu javascript to support both hover and click style menus
- Added option to disable hover menus — returns to click-to-open style, auto-disables fixed position menu and hot keys
- Added iPad ‘finger friendly’ menus — auto-disables hover menus, fixed positioning and hot keys
- Added contextual help on the Fluency Options page.
- Improved support for Opera 10.5+
- Improved documentation of plugin code
Version 2.2
- Update css to work with changes introduced in 2.9
- Fixed Login styles for WP2.9
- Now using wp_enqueue_style and wp_enqueue_script functions
- Added custom menu width option for users with wide menu items that were previously wrapping over multiple lines
- Added option to disable the fixed positioned menu for users with lots of plugins that add menu items or that have small screens
Version 2.1.1
- Fixed display issues with Acronyms, NextGen Gallery, One-Click Plugin Updater, HeadSpace2 and WP-Polls
- Fixed broken styling of Media Library popup
- Fixed custom menu icons no longer display over default icon
- Fixed positioningof “Update WordPress” message (not perfect, but better)
- Added option to set custom logo to display at the top of the menu (replaces WordPress logo)
Version 2.1
- Updated css to work with slight changes introduced in WordPress 2.8.x
- Updated menu script to fix bug with long submenus disappearing off screen.
- Updated hotkeys to work with submenus longer that 9 items
- Added support for collapsing/showing side menu.
- Added Blue/Classic color scheme (based on user preference).
- Added option to disable the Fluency style on the login screen.
- Added option to specify a custom logo to be show on the login screen.
- Added function to add Akismet menu item to the Comments submenu (if Akismet is activated)
Version 2.0
- Complete re-write of Fluency to work with the all-new Admin interface that was introduced in WordPress 2.7
Hello! Thank you very much for such a great plugin!
BTW, I found something wrong with the styling of Media Library popup (Gallery tab).
Tested environment:
Web browser: Google Chrome OS X (on OS X 10.6)
WordPress version: 3.0 English version.
Theme: Twenty Ten
Fluency Admin version: 2.3.2
No other plugins are activated.
I had to modify the CSS (#media-upload form.media-upload-form, padding-top and margin-top) as follows so that the div section of #sort-buttons is fully shown:
File: wp-content/plugins/fluency-admin/resources/wp-admin.css
before
#media-upload form.media-upload-form {margin:0 10px 10px;padding:0 10px 10px;position:relative;-moz-border-radius:15px;-webkit-border-radius:15px;border-radius:15px;background:#F6F6F6 url(‘images/title-gradient.png’) repeat-x top left;border:1px solid #FFF;}
after
#media-upload form.media-upload-form {margin:10px 10px 10px;padding:32px 10px 10px;position:relative;-moz-border-radius:15px;-webkit-border-radius:15px;border-radius:15px;background:#F6F6F6 url(‘images/title-gradient.png’) repeat-x top left;border:1px solid #FFF;}
How can I edit “wordpress Fluency 2.3 ” text/logo on admin’s Dashboard?
Does anybody have an Idea on editing the “wordpress” label at the top of Dashboard ?
Does any one implemented like this?
You can specify your own image on the Fluency settings page in the WordPress admin.
It worked for me.
Thank you very much.
I like your theme a lot, but Is there a way to remove the Hide Menu Option? I don’t really seem like I need that. Like toggle it in the settings =] Thanks for the Brilliant Theme!
great plugins with lots of useful features for site admin…thanks for your great work
I will try to use this and I am look forward that this theme better than the default.
Thanks in advance.
Hi.. did anyone found a way to work around the “Hide Menu” button missing from the panel?
Yes, I was finally able to reproduce the bug this morning and should be submitting a fix when I get home from work tonight.
Awesome Dean! Updating it now, thanks for being on top of things and getting this update out so fast. Really appreciate it!
…further to my last comment. Maybe there’s a way to hide the “Hide Menu” button/link??? or disable it. I’m fine with not having the option to hiding it.
Originally Fluency 2.0 I had removed the hide menu button, but I re-added it back into Fluency 2.1 after it was requested by a lot of users.
First of all, very nice admin theme! Secondly I am unfortunately having the same hide menu problem a few other people have posted. Menu works great until I pressed the Hide Menu. Now I have a little toolbar and cant expand it back to its menu state. I am using 2.3.1 and wordpress 3.0. Other than that I’m looking forward to customizing and using this admin theme, nice job.
Its a known issue, but the cause is still unknown, I haven’t been able to replicate the issue yet (across half a dozen different WP installs). If you have any additional info about your WP setup (in particular plugins that alter the menus in any way) that might be useful please let me know.
Pretty good!
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Hi together,
i have tested it with WordPress 3.0 – de_DE and 3.0 – en_US and the folling plugins. It works just fine for this.
Akismet Version 2.3.0
All in One SEO Pack Version 1.6.11
CSS-JS-Booster Version 0.2.6
Easy Contact Version 0.1.2 ß
Google XML Sitemaps Version 3.2.4
JR Favicon Version 1.1.2
Mingle Forum Version 1.0.05
Pretty Link Version 1.4.47
Sociable Version 3.5.2
SyntaxHighlighter Evolved Version 2.3.8
TinyMCE Advanced Version 3.2.7
WordPress Easy ToDo Version 1.1.5
WordPress Importer Version 0.2
WP-Memory-Usage Version 1.1.0
WP-PageNavi Version 2.72
wpCompressor Version 0.3
WP Super Cache Version 0.9.9.3
WPtouch iPhone Theme Version 1.9.14
Great plugin. This is what the WordPress admin station should have looked like all along.
I am potentially experiencing a possible conflict with the plugin “WPtouch iPhone Theme”.
When you go into the “Fluency Admin Options” settings to select the “Login screen custom link” and “Login screen custom logo” and activate the changes; when you see the login screen and click on the new logo and link, the link takes you to the iPhone version of the web page as served by the “WPtouch iPhone Theme”.
Dear Dean,
as you wrote in the changelog for the last fluency-admin version, here I am with the italian translation. You can find it here:
http://www.w3b.it/download/fluency-admin-it_IT.zip
Let me know if/when you need to update it.
Bye bye and thanks for your work!
Thanks Daniele, I will make sure its included in the next update.
Er, think I found a bug? Downloaded 2.3.1 & worked fine all day, clicked on the “hide menu” button. Hid the menu all right-, but won’t let me get it back! Messed up the rollover areas too. Deactivated the theme, but didn’t help. Very hard to use right now, any thoughts?
Seems odd the menus would break 2.3.1 (not saying its impossible though) as no-one reported this for 2.3 (its possible no-one found it). If the problem is still there once Fluency is deactivated I’d be inclined to think Fluency isn’t necessarily the problem.
Can you confirm a couple of things for me before I spend too much time investigating, and to give me a little info that I can use to try and replicate the problem:
— Are you definitely using WordPress 3.0 and Fluency 2.3.1?
— Do you have any other plugins active that interact with the admin menu in any way?
— Is your browser reporting any javascript errors (any plugin could potentially cause this)?
— Can you provide a screenshot or two to show the issue in action.
I had the same menu problem as Todd. Here are answers to your questions for the problem I had. I had the same problem in Firefox and Chrome.
I am definitely using WP 3.0 and Fluency 2.3.1
I deactivated all other plugins and still had the problem
The browser did not report any javascript errors.
Let me know how you want me to send you the screenshots, and I’ll be happy to.
Made a screencast for you :)
http://screencast.com/t/NTkwYWI0Mjk
So to answer your questions:
1) Yup definitely using 3.0 & 2.3.1
2) Yes, I am using “Admin Menu Editor”- could be a conflict between the two, will look into deactivating/reinstalling both etc today. Never had a problem with them playing together before, of course never really used the “hide menu” option either :)
3) No js errors reported that I see.
As a side note– I had also discovered that the “comments” menu tab and user blog “profile” tab were missing white text when selected. (i.e. they rollover white, but when you click on the link they go dark) think this is a small separate issue, although it could have been a sign of an early conflict? Just thought I’d bring it to attention.
I absolutely love this theme, btw, thank you so much for keeping it up and keeping it current!
Mark, are you by chance using the Admin Menu Editor plugin too? I don’t think there’s anything else I’m using that could interfere.
Posting an update, comparing 2.3.1 site issue with another site that I have running WP 2.9 and a perfectly running Fluency 2.2
http://screencast.com/t/YmE2MDkyNTct
I removed the Admin Menu Editor plugin from the database, issue is still there. Going to temporarily remove 2.3.1– if I can get everything back to normal, I’ll install Fluency 2.3 & see what happens :)
Awesome, thanks for the screencasts, gives me something to work against while I’m testing.
I know whats causing the problem with the ‘Comments’ and ‘Dashboard’ menu items, should be easy to fix (hopefully).
From what I can find the ‘Admin Menu Editor’ plugin could cause problems, but only if you’ve either removed/moved/hidden the separators or changed the class names for them.
I was so happy to see the update for this this morning and I installed it right away. Great job! No bugs found yet and multicolumn works like a dream.
First, I’m here to say that you developed a great and beauty plugin. Second, I’m having a trouble on ICON parameter of add_menu_page, that I solved commenting the file “wp-admin.css” the line that has: #adminmenu li div.wp-menu-image {margin:0 3px;background-image:url(‘images/menu.png’) !important;}
Nice ! Using it right now :) I think WP 3.0 admin lacks contrast!
Minor bug with qtranslate plugin when the menu is hidden
Thank you for the update. You are the greatest. The only issue is that for some reason large sub-menus no longer expand to 2 columns and the appearance/menus screen is pushed way over for some reason. Both of these issues are reported for Google chrome.
I too have the sub-menu column issue (I have a lot of plugin-added Settings entries), in Firefox. I’ll chalk it up to not upgrading to WP3.0 yet; many of my plugins aren’t compatible yet and so I’m sticking with 2.9.2 for a bit.
The sub-menu column issue is actually my fault, I double checked my code last night and somehow the section that handles that had been deleted (oops… not entirely sure how that happened).
Keep in mind too that while Fluency 2.3 should still work with WP2.9 (and probably 2.8) its likely to have the odd display bug when used with these versions because its written primarily to support WordPress 3.0.
I presume that code will be back in the next release. No worries. :-)
My upgrade to WP3.0 will happen as soon as I’m comfortable with my plugin compatibility stats. In the mean time, I’ll be very forgiving of any Fluency display issues I encounter.
Yep, it’ll be back, fixed it last night, just got a couple of other bugs to sort out and then I push out an update.
You are definitely the MAN! Thanks a lot for all of your time, effort, and creativity. I really have no clue what wordpress is like without fluency. Uncool I suppose. lol
A small bug : under Appearance > menu — the sidebar fluency menu goes over the content.
Yep, known issue, just fixing a couple of other minor bugs and I’ll push out an update.
Thank you. This version still got the same problem as the previous — it destroys a bit the category (and custom hiearchichal taxonomies) widget on post edit screen, at least on google chrome — it copies all the values, so they are there twice — once just like the values without the checkboxes, just after initial UL, not in LI, like:
ul id=“typchecklist” class=“list:typ categorychecklist form-no-clear”>
BazényBazény D-LineBazény s p?elivným žlabemBazény XLStandardní bazényKomer?ní ví?ivkyPrivátní ví?ivky
li id=“typ-13″ …
it is hard to explain, so this is how it looks:
http://www.seo-konzultant.cz/wp-content/uploads/category-error.jpg
it can be used normaly, it is just ugly
P.S.: otherwise it is great, i just dislike the yellow update notice, e.g. “WordPress 3.0 is available! Please update now.” on grey title area
and if i could have one more desire — it would be great if it would be possible to change speed of the menu hover, or just increase it — my collegue dislike fluency because she hates to dislike that half a second to see the submenu