There is no doubt that the band spanking new admin interface in WordPress 2.7 is a huge leap forward, and so long as you don’t switch to the ‘blue’ version (seriously, worst, blue, ever) its actually pretty nice to look at and use. The navigation is now down the left-hand side, just as I preferred (which is why thats where it was in Fluency 1.x), and because of this, styling and customising the menu in-particular has been a lot simpler that it was in previous versions of WP.
So whats new.
Well, technically, everything is. Fluency 2 was a ground up rewrite due to the fact that just about every part of both the design and underlying structure of the default admin has changed. This was definitely a good thing, as it allowed me to make sure I’m only including what really needs to be included. However I did make this a little hard for myself when I started work using the early trunk builds, which meant that every time I updated my build I had to update Fluency…again. I actually ended up building the Fluency 2 CSS from scratch twice, and what it looks like now isn’t at all what it looked like when I first began playing around.
Ok, so whats “really” new.
Thanks to the addition of some extra hooks customising the style of the login screen is now possible, so that’s new.
I’ve customised the main navigation too, couldn’t help myself. You may have seen me mention that I’m not an enormous fan of the way the navigation functions. WordPress claim it take less clicks to get to different screens, but I don’t really agree. You still have to click a submenu to expand it, and then click the link, that’s two clicks which by my count is the same as before. Sure it require one less page load, but…
Also not a fan of the expanding/contracting width of the menu. I had played with, implemented and then removed pretty much the same thing in an early version of Fluency 2 before I figured it wasn’t worth the effort, and well before it appeared in the WP trunk. In the end I dropped it like a sack of potatoes because I didn’t see the point in adding it for the sake of adding it. After all it was only giving me about 80px of extra page width to play with. When it appear in the trunk I really didn’t like the way that menu behaved completely different whether expanded or contracted, and thought that it would surely be confusing for new users.
Solution. Custom flyout menus. Now virtually everything is just one click away (or a nifty key-combo…). Personally I love my new menus (as you would expect) they take up less room than the default one, and the behaviour has actually reduced the number of clicks. Plus I think they look awesome.
To go with the new menus I’ve added “hot keys” for quick access. Its the first time I’ve attempted such a thing and its turned out alright. As you would expect the hotkeys won’t function if you’re inside an input or textarea so your data entry should be unimpeded. I did however add these prior to the comment moderation hotkeys being added to the trunk so there may be some conflict there. If you find anything please let me know.
Unlike Fluency 1.x I haven’t had to modify the post screens too much beyond some cosmetic touchups. Besides, now that you can drag-and-drop all the panels on these screen so you can put whatever you want where ever you want it. Under the “screen options” menu at the top right of the screen you can also choose to hide some sections completely. This can be done on the dashboard as well as the post and edit screens, its one of the really handy features they’ve included in 2.7.
It should go without saying that the primary purpose of Fluency is to change the styles of your admin, all the other bit are just extra fun. While the overall theme of the design is similar to 1.x it much more refined, smoother and hopefully more consistent. The familiar grey colour-scheme is back, with colour added as needed. Little things like the inline post/comment edit/delete/approve/etc links are styled with appropriate colours, eg. delete = red, approve = green etc. For browsers that support them, ie. everything but IE, I’ve used rgba colours for menu backgrounds to give them a slightly transparent appearance.
Enough words, I should let you gaze across the screenshots below, and most importantly direct you to the download link (top right of this page for those that missed it).
Screenshots
I haven’t covered everything, but those are the main points. If you’ve got any questions just leave a comment.
Quick word about plugins.
Fluency has not been tested with ever plugin under the sun, I’ve test the ones I use, plus a couple of the more popular ones, but in general if a plugin has decent admin screens that follow the rest of the layout then it should be fine to use in conjunction with Fluency. If you come across a plugin that doesn’t, please let me know and I’ll do my best to add support for it in the future.
Note: Since I (once again) rushed this out the door, I’ll try and revisit the content above in the coming days to include some more details.
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Hopefully this will be updated officially for 2.8, haven’t tried it yet though. Hope it works!
The current version (2.0) works fine with WP2.8 with the exception of a few style oddities here and there, but nothing that I’ve seen that makes it unusable. I’ve started an update for WP2.8 and I should be able to get it out in the next week or so.
Hi, I have tried installing the plugin on a number of 2.8 sites but get the following error message when I activate the plugin:
“The plugin does not have a valid header.”
any ideas?
thanks pete
Hmm, not sure what could be causing that I’ve also installed Fluency on several WP2.8 blogs, and I haven’t had any issues at all. Is that all the message tells you? Do you have any other plugins that change the admin interface in any way that could be conflicting with Fluency?
I got the same message about the header and I think I figured it out. When I downloaded your zip and then used the Wordpress “add new” plugin feature I used the upload option. That created a “wp-fluency-2” folder that contained another “wp-fluency-2” folder and a “MacOSX” folder. So plugin folder structure was wrong. I fixed it by deleting that and just uploading the contents of your plugin directly in ftp.
And thanks for this. I have been hating the new admin look and your plugin makes it more tolerable.
ahhhh…. great, thanks for the info.
I’ll make I test that install method for the next and make sure its compatible.
Phenomenal work and very intuitive layout. Thank you for sharing this - it’s greatly appreciated.
…it… doesn’t work.
I’m using WP 2.7.
The footer says I’m using Fluency but there’s no change to the admin.
Hi Luuk, what web browser are you using? And are you running any other plugins that change the admin area that may be in conflict with Fluency?
Hi,
I’m running Firefox 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.04.
And AFAIK there are no other plugins active…
update: I’m using WP2.8 now.
OK, i reinstalled the plugin and now it works!
…and… it…
i love it.
keyboard control, minimal design, OMG u rule.
Okay, just updated to WP 2.8 and Fluency seems to work just fine for me. I don’t know about widgets (my blog doesn’t use them).
…Oh, and thank you for Fluency. It’s beautiful and functional and just makes using WP a joy (more so!). I think I’m more excited about using the interface than I am about blogging now! Very intelligent and powerful. It should be included in WP by default.
Any plans to update to 2.8?
wordpress 2.8 is out some changes to the way columns show up etc, haven’t installed fluency yet, will it work?
Anyone have this working with the 2.8 release? I’m pretty tech savvy, but new to WordPress, so I don’t want to muck anything up by being an early adopter! :D
I’ve had several user report that the current version of Fluency was working fine with the WP2.8 release candidates (I’ve also had no issues), and I imagine that nothing should have change in the final release that would prevent it from working.
I do plan to do a minor update in the next couple of weeks so if you do spot anything that seems to be broken (like, possibly the new widgets admin page) please let me know so that I can address them in the update.
it seems, that we have some language problems after installing WP 2.8 - Some translated parts (german) got back to english after updating. Maybe nothing that is related to Fluency…?
I tried the plugin on WP 3.0 RC1 and it rocks !!!! Great great grea job ;-)
Love the plugin; makes WP’s admin SO much more intuitive!
I quickly read through the comments/questions below and did not see anyone else with my problem. In Firefox, all of the submenus are black text on grey background (impossible to read). Screen shot is http://i40.tinypic.com/ibkxdv.jpg . In IE, they show up as black on white which also seems inconsistent compared to other screenshots I’ve seen below. I did disable all other plugins to rule that out, and I don’t think any changes have been made to your code. WordPress 2.7 and 2.7.1, FF 3, IE 8, XP. I’m going to try in MacOS Leopard when I get to work today as well just for more info. Thanks for any suggestions!
An update I just noticed, whichever submenu is active (such as Settings -> General), that title does show up white. But the inactive subsections are still blacked out. Thanks again!
Well.. decided to grab a new zip of the plugin and the submenus are fine now, at least in MacOS Firefox, but it should be fine everywhere. Thanks again for the great admin redesign.
Hi Andrew, The IE issue with the bg colour of the menus is explained here: http://deanjrobinson.com/projects/fluency-admin/#comment-72250
As for the black text on the dark background in your screenshot, the only thing that I can think of off the top of my head that could be causing this is that it looks like you’re using the blue colour scheme in your wp-admin, have you tried it with the grey colour scheme?
I had it on grey first, then changed to blue. Since the issue was fixed (at least in MacOS) by extracting a newly-downloaded .zip, I think maybe I did play around with the wp-admin.css after all, though I still don’t remember doing it. I’ll check in IE when I get home but I normally don’t use IE anyway. Thanks again for your help, and for the link above that I somehow missed. :)
Just checked in IE and it’s still grey on white, but I don’t care because I use Firefox anyway. :)
Hey man great theme, I plan to use it on my clients websites as its much easier to navigate then the default wordpress style.
Just a note I have Events Calender (PLUGIN PAGE: http://tiny.cc/M5b5H) installed and it doesnt show an arrow next to it when not hovered, it does when i hover and it shows the links just fine but doesnt have regular, just wanna let you know. Also i recommend for plugins that do that (add a new admin page you should give it a letter and number as well if this is possible.
Other then that great work mate, cheers.
Mr. Robinson,
Just a note to let you know that Fluency-2 is working under WP-2.8-beta-1.
Mr. Robinson,
Under WP 2.7.1 using Fluency 2 an odd bug has arisen. See screenshot: http://tinyurl.com/d4bjlr
Hey! Pure awesomeness, this plugin is!!!
Could you give us some control over the fonts used, or just use better typography? =) Artistically, and bent towards design, I got a bit annoyed when I saw that it was automatically showing text in some font like Arial, or Helvetica. Lucida Grande, or Sans Unicode, would be by far more convenient!! 
Thanks, nevertheless.
I tried it with WPMU and it works fine but there is a problem when you have an admin bar like for buddypress. The admin bar goes into the left panel menu of fluency. Would it be possible to fix it or is it a budypress issue ?
Its probably something I can fix in a future version, this version was not tested with WPMU or BuddyPress.
Hey guys, to fix Fluency for use with BuddyPress (using the word “fix” loosely) edit the following:
In Fluency’s wp-admin.css on line 36 you will find “#adminmenu {…}” in which there is a call to the Fluency2.gif background image. Delete the background information, including background color, and the admin bar will show through.
The final line 36 should read:
[code]#adminmenu {font-family:’Helvetica’,’Arial’;margin:0;width:110px;position:fixed;padding-top:40px;top:0;left:0;z-index:2000;}[/code]
Of course this removes the Fluency2 logo, so my suggestion is to add the logo back to the footer of the theme to give credit.
Like I said, this is a hack at best, but it seems to work.
~ GSN development
This theme looks damn cool. cheers mate.
Beautiful work! I thought the WP 2.7 trunk UI was nice until I saw how you improved it. Bravo!
AMAZING job
Will this work with Wordpress MU?
Hi Dean,
Awesome plugin. Thank you.
I’m using Flutter cms plugin on a project and that’s when Fluency2 menu stopped working ie submenus didn’t flyout as usual. Is this something you can remedy or is it something Flutter needs to sort out? I’m using the latest firefox browser and wp 2.7.1
p.s. made a small contribution a few days ago — hope it was enough in AUD for at least a 12-pack of something good :)
I should be able to fix, or at least find a work around for, the flutter problem. Its possible that the flutter plugin is making some specific change to the menus (could be a simple css class or they might be changing the structure). When I have some free time (rare of late) I’ll download a copy of flutter and see if I can find the cause. And thanks for your donation, very much appreciated.
Take your time. I’ve decided to put off using Flutter until some bugs got under control. Thanks for making this plugin — saves a lot of clicks/time.
Great plugin, Dean! I’m happy to be able to use it again for 2.7.
I was immediately impressed with the slide-out menus and their transparency. I am running a local journal on a laptop so I spend little to no time on the actual “site,” making all my entries as an author in the admin panel.
A quick question — if I wanted to hack the plugin to change the background colors (no offense intended, I just can’t stand white), where would I look?
Also, someone was complaining about quick-keys and dual-digit submenus; could you possibly use a hexedecimal scheme so one could access up to 15 submenus using digits 1-F?
If you’re referring to the background colors of the page then you’ll probably need to either add some (and/or possibly change) some lines in the fluency css file. I’d recommend using the Firebug extension for Firefox to pin point which styles you might need to fiddle with.
So, what I’m seeing, then is default css values underlying WordPress itself? Basically the background white… I’d like to tone it down to a very pale pastel of some sort, perhaps lavender or mint.
I will look into that firebug extension, thanks!
Hi There - I have tried installing this and can’t get the flyout menus to show up at all. The left menu is there, the options just don’t fly out. I tried to figure this out from the comments below but haven’t been able to. Can you help?
Hi Justin, could you provide an info about what browser you are using and if you are getting any errors at all. Thanks.
Cool! I loveit!
i am looking for any plugin which take less time to edit posts in bulk
oh thank you for this stuff…
i am realy like it! great!
Hi - I love this plugin, thank you so much! I am using it for all my sites and adore it.
I’ve been asked by a client if they could have a custom login page - really I think they just want to stick their logo on it. Can you think of any way to accomplish this that doesn’t make it difficult to update your plugin in the future? Ideally I think I’d want an additional style sheet in the site’s theme folder, but I’m not sure how to accomplish this.
Thank you so much!
Hi Michelle, the quickest and easiest way to do this is probably to replace the wp_login.gif image thats in the images folder within the fluency plugin folder. This will allow you to swap out the WP logo for the clients logo and you won’t need to worry about touching and css or code.
Good! ))
This is a really great plugin; alas it seems not to quite work with my browser. I use Camino (kind of like firefox for Mac, gecko kernel but native rendering) and the spiffy black background is not there for the flyout menus. I wind up with a very light blue on white instead, which I can’t really read.
I poked around the CSS, and it appears that Camino can’t handle the *:first-child+html code. If I take the two following lines:
*:first-child+html #adminmenu li div.wp-submenu ul {background:#222;}
*:first-child+html #adminmenu li div.wp-submenu ul li a:hover {background:#111 !important;}
and paste in a copy of them with the first-child etc. chopped off, then things work perfectly.
I will do this for every release myself if I have to, because this plugin has saved me from endless irritation, but it would be lovely if there was some way to reconcile the code.
Its correct that those two lines should have no effect at all in Camino, as *:first-child+html is an IE7 hack, because IE7 doesn’t handle rgba background colours (which are used on the flyouts).
The light blue on white that you’re seeing is the same as what I was seeing in IE7 before adding those lines, so it looks like Camino doesn’t support rgba background colours either, I should be able to fix this for the next release.
I had the the same issue in Firefox 2. I tried your method and removed the *:first-child+html code from those two lines and now it looks great!
This is awesome! Any chance you could make it possible to offer a collapsible side-toolbar? When I’m using Fluid with the Fluency plugin, I’d love to relegate the toolbar to an icon/triangle in the top left corner of the screen to help me focus on writing. Possible?
So your talking about collapsing it ‘completely’ as opposed to the default behaviour (without fluency installed) which just reduces each item to an icon? Can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work, so I’ll add it to my list of things to look at when the time comes for an update. Thanks for the suggestion.
Hi, this is not working correctly with Opera. =(
yikes… i like the dashboard… but omg… if i log out… it really borks my home page… and never goes to that nice new login screen
Under what license is this sweet little plug-in?
don’t work here : i’ve no submenu… and font are very crappy.
Stef: why don’t you grow up and get a browser like Firefox where you can specify your own fonts on any website? It’s one preference setting away. (I have Helvetiva Neue and this plugin makes my WP look sexy as heck). Or just edit the CSS.
If you’re not seeing the submenu on the left, then you’re using another plugin that is conflicting with this one. Turn off all plugins that’re not serving an absolutely vital purpose (e.g., Akismet) and see if this works. It has to. Also make sure you don’t have any caching etc in your browser.
look strange : i’ve got submenu with local installation of my blog… but with the online one, no submenu….( only if i use the wassup plugin + firefox )..
with IE, i’ve got the message : “jquery undefined” :/
ok that’s work now…. Filezilla don’t upload some Jquery files.
I also noticed another very minor problem in the edit post screen.
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/7461/51590714ns4.gif
The screenshot above, when I try to minimise any of those boxes in the edit post screen, there’s a jagged edge at the bottom right and left. But this does not happen on the dash board. :)
This theme is very sleek and neat, it makes the admin page loads faster as well. I only have a problem with the admin page of Acronyms 1.6.1, all the other plugins I’m using works well with this theme.
http://ketsugi.com/software/wordpress/acronyms-plugin/
Is it possible to add support for it as well? Thanks.
Excellent look and feel. But unfortunately its not working in IE for me. Entire menu gets shifted to extreme left and is not visible….is there any way I can provide you a screen shot and you can suggest some work around ?
A very nice plugin! Unfortunately, the drop down menus do not work with the Opera Browser. Is the Opera browser compatible with Fluency? Or would it be something wrong with my browser?
Again, congrats on a great plugin.
I don’t have Opera installed so the current version of Fluency hasn’t been tested in it. I will try and find the time to test it for a future release.
Thank you so much! I will keep checking here for updates, then.
Wow, Awesome!
I like the 2.7 backend a lot, but the menü was still too crowded and not very handy. This Admin Theme gives it just the right amount of contrast and space to work really, really well with WP. Love it!
Does this theme use “em”s in CSS and is therefore not as crowded and useless at WP 2.7’s default theme when my font size in my browser is set to a minimum of 18?
if the standard nav is minimized when you activate this plugin the Fluency nav does not show up
yeah… I will probably add a step to the installation/activation to check this setting and adjust accordingly in the next release.
Hi Dean,
Looks awesome, ‘feels’ great!!
Dean - this is such a great, useful interface. I love it.
There are several plugins that allow for re-using posts like a relational database where you define the custom fields associated with them (such plugins are pods, flutter, more-fields, etc). Anyways, all of these plugins create submenus at the same level as posts/pages for each new item you create. Because of that, when using your plugin they all shop up on the main level. So if I create 10 of these new types of posts, then there are 10 top level menu items added to the sidebar, pushing it pretty far down. Is there a way to easily modify either your plugin or theirs to create just 1 top-level menu, then have each of these as popout menus from that 1 top-level menu? Thanks
A follow-up to my request to be able to manage the menus. I found this plugin:
http://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/12/20/admin-menu-editor-for-wordpress/
That does exactly that. The two work seamlessly together and now I have been able to accomplish the ultimate back end interface!
AWESOME WORK DEAN!
Hi danf-
How were you able to get Fluency2 (+ Admin Menu 0.1.2 ) to work when Flutter .250 is installed?
hi samantha - i know i had tested flutter with fluency2 and dont recall having any issues - but that was before i installed admin menu. I don’t use flutter now as it didn’t fit my requirements - I use more-fields plugin to accomplish my needs
Thanks for the reply danf.
Anyone using flutter and fluency together happily. Please let me know. Thanks.
Thanks for the reply danf.
Anyone using flutter and fluency together happily, please let me know. Thanks.
Hi, thats the reason i dropped fluency from my projects, as it is near impossible to customise, and doesnt work with Flutter. Flutter is my holy grail, and if something doesnt gel with it, then it has to go.
From all the admin skins I have tested, I have unfortunatley found the standard wp admin menu to be the best option for a Flutter based install. You can use ‘Menu Editor’ plugin to control what panels you want to show/hide very well with Flutter.
Good luck!!
Hi Sam-
I will give Menu Editor another look.
I am just getting started with Flutter — my only question is how I can display the information on my pages. If it looks as easy as it says here: http://flutter.freshout.us/usage/ then I will be very grateful.
Seems like you got it figured out. If you have any hints, please share
I will need the luck. Thanks.
Hi Dean,
I have a question regarding the hotkeys for this plugin. I understand that if you wanted to access the Settings menu, for example, you’d press S and then press 3 for Reading or 1 for General. What happens if you want an item that goes into the double digits? I currently have 14 items under the Settings tab. Is there a way to access the double digit items with hotkeys? Or is this just something I shouldn’t be lazy about and just click on the item? Just a quick question because I absolutely love the hotkeys feature on this plugin.
Thanks in advance, Jessie
Hi Jessie, unfortunately at the moment there isn’t a way to access those menu items with double digit hotkeys, it is something I can look to fix in a future version though.
Hi Dean
any progress on the new version? thanks!
is this plugins .. or new interface for wordpress
Yes, this is a plugin, you just install it as you would another plugin. Once activated the Fluency Admin style should instantly be visible.
Nice and easy to navigate, smoother than the OEM. This will be a nice addition to my changing over my present html site to WP.
Loved the plugin before WordPress 2.7 and it has only gotten better. I personally found the fonts and some of your boldface text jarring when I activated the plugin. Seemed the default font styles were better, but this is only my own opinion. Keep up the good work!
The only problem I had with this plugin was when I tried to install it by uploading the entire archive through WordPress manual plugin installation upload form in Plugins > ‘Add New’. The __MACOSX files went into the main /wp-content/plugins directory automatically and WordPress thought it was a separate plugin. This caused page load errors which persisted until I went and manually deleted that directory.
I had the same plugins/__MACOSX/ problem and had to delete this directory to stop errors. Otherwise a fantastic plugin to speed up wordpress. :)
what exactly do i have to copy and paste in wich directory?
beacause its not working like i want it to do!
i just overwrote similar files, like wp-admin.css….
i havent been finding a tutorial or a readme file…
i’m new to this and a little pissed
so pls reply to this comment & help me , thank you
omg, its a plugin buddy. put the whole folder in your ‘plugins’ directory and activate the thing from wp admin.
shhheeeessh, good luck
hey sam
,
thank you for this excellent hint .
i have destroyed a moment ago my whole directory but, ok^^
now i can doit the right way
just activate the plugin ^^
best regards Nico
Great Job Dean!
Thanks for this, this is an awesome plugin. I’m loving the keyboard navigation option as well.
First of all, greatly done! You did a wonderful redesign.
But as mentioned before i would also love a version where the submenu is visible all the time. And maybe the sidebar a little bit wider (and the font size bigger).
Though a beautiful redesign of fluency, the hotkeys are useful, too. Thanks!
Suggestions noted, you’re not the only one to suggest having the submenu always visible.
i know this isnt really to do with Fluency plugin, but i am wanting a combination of Fluency admin and the old style horizontal menu, so my Client can always see which admin side submenu they are currently on. (I did this previously with OZH menu on WP2.6, but OZH 2.7 update isnt all that great, i am trying to migrate to Fluency)
many many thanks!
any chance of keeping the icons to the left of the text?
If you were feeling adventurous you could dive into the css and un-comment the lines that are hiding the icons. Beyond that I’m evaluating which suggestions I may or may not incorporate into the next version.
cool thanks, i got adventurous, and commented out line 50 of the css, but it displays all wrong, and the icons appear all over the place.
will try a few changes.
many thanks
just off the top of my head you might just need to make the menu wider to accommodate the extra width.
heya, i am trying that, but currently having major probs with the css. tried making all the 110px widths to wider, but the hovers dont move along to the right accordingly.
also, it seems with the icons uncommented the menu items format themselves like so
- Appearance
- - - Users
- - - - - Tools
sending all sorts of things to new lines, and generally looking pretty nasty. (using ff3/xp)
many thanks!
hi, great work on the new plugin.
is there any way we can make the left hand menu a little wider? say 200px
I have a few menu items that take up two lines of text and it breaks the hovers.
also, would be great to turn off the hotkey letters.
many thanks, great work
Great Plugin, light and fast…
But: Would be even better if it would work with internet explorer (yes, I know, uuuh but I use it…) as I can’t access the whole menu from “settings” due to too many plugins there and IE7 shows the list different than Firefox…
Dean I also have the to many plugins problem with the settings menu. I have 42 that add stuff in that menu and it cuts off the list. Here a couple of screen grabs showing what I mean (even though I’m sure you know what I’m talking about):
Hopefully there is an easy fix coming for this. Grats on getting the number one spot in the admin ui vote.
Bah links got edited out. They can be viewed here:
http://www.hotelblues.com/gallery2/misc/flu2-admin-settings-smaller.jpg/ http://www.hotelblues.com/gallery2/misc/flu2-admin-settings-menu-big.jpg/
I dont know how to install it, can someone tell me? Thanx.
Very god!
I lovy Fluency.
Love the new fluency. I can’t stand the frou frou interface of 2.7, this makes the entire user experience lighter, sleeker, and classier!
I have a question though, on the wp_login.gif graphic, what font did you use? It is a beautiful graphic and a beautiful font.
Not sure what font it is since its just the WordPress logo, if you do a search around on the wordpress.org site you might find what font it is.
It’s Mrs. Eaves.
Thanks Matt :)
Great job!
I think there’s a bug. In Firefox, if an author goes into the “edit posts” panel, the title of the posts written by other authors won’t appear, well yes, but it’s white over white background. How can I solve that?
I have this issue too. Since installing Fluency (I love it), I have white-on-white post content whenever I try to edit a previously saved draft if I try to go into visual mode. HTML mode usually works fine. I primarily use Chrome but it seems to be a problem with any browser I’ve tried.
Not download! File not found!
Could you please try again, as you may have been trying to download the file while I was in the process of upgrading this site to WordPress 2.7. Please let me know if you are still unable to download the file.
Great Work…clean design, easy interface, the best admin solution for Wp2.7. Congratulations
God - I was hoping you would do a new version of Fluency - ever since I upgraded to 2.7 I was kinda lost
With Fluency 2 I am back to being “doing stuff” instead of “searching stuff”. THANK YOU!
By the way, what does the letters in the menu stand for? I was thinking it’s only the starting letter of the menu title but then there’s G for Pages and N for Plugins.
The letters (and numbers in the submenus) are “hotkeys”, for example to add a new post you could just press “P” then “2” to get to the “add new post” screen. Works great in Firefox and Safari, but there been reports of issues in Internet Explorer.
Finally! WordPress has submenus visible without having to click its parent first. I was using a plugin for such functionality then but it was not compatible with Fluency. Now, no need for that.
The arrows are somewhat too big though…
Thank you!
Very nice work! I’m using it on my humble blog, polaricecap.net. I like much of the functional aspects of Wordpress 2.7, as well as a few of the UI decisions. However, the styling was just a mess (what’s the deal with all the italics everywhere?). Thanks for cleaning up the mess.
Two questions: What browser(s) are you seeing this in? And, did you have the default navigation minimized/contracted when you activated it?
If its option two, all you need to do is deactivate the plugin (which you’ve probably already done), expand the default menu, and then reactivate the plugin, it should then be fine. (see other users comments below)
I was not impressed with wordpress 2.7’s new design.. infact it felt dull.. but when I found this plugin.. all my questions where answered.. Thank you so much.. I was this close to ditching Wordpress and looking for a new blogging tool.
“Minor error” Total navigation disappears after activation of the plugin :S Any idea?
Very… Very…. Very beautiful!!! Thanks!
This is just fantastic! I wasn’t that fond of the collapsible menus. Makes 2.7 even more visually appealing.
Oh, Thanks!
After expand left sidebar and re-activate plugin, it’s work just fine.
The left sidebar menu doesn’t show up if you activate the plugin when the default menu is collapsed to icon state.
We’re running the latest version at Chewru.Com — we love it. A couple bugs, maybe:: When I finish a post and publish it — the visual view (not the HTML view), goes entirely white. If you highlight the ‘empty’ box you see the text, but I can’t get it to come up otherwise (forced to edit in HTML going forward). This is a CHROME-only issue as far as I can see.
In IE8, I can see the text that’s blank in chrome, but the mouse-over menus dont pop up. It looks like it tries too - it builds the frames for the text that should be in there - but they’re blank. The only keyboard shortcuts that show are NUTS — kind of funny.
Please keep working on this admin backend — it’s great so far!
You have to correct something in your description: if you choose the minimal look in the new Wordpress administration, you don’t have to click to develop the tree.
This looks great! I was impressed with the WP2.7 admin page already, but somehow you’ve found ways to improve it even more. Great work!
Beautiful plug!
Look good but left sidebar is gone in IE8 Beta2.
Hey, your plugin is so nice!
Oh, Man, this is beautiful! I was really bummed when I upgraded to WP 2.7 and had to deactivate Fluency Admin, but you have made something really cool, here.
Unfortunately, the left column is not activated in Firefox — - or at least not in the theme I’m using.
I see some problems with Safari rendering buttons (edit, delete…) when viewing list of posts. Because of that height of specific post is to big.
Just installed the Fluency Admin 2.0 and this rocks! Very well done and user friendly. Sharing with other people as a 5 start must install. Thanks!
A very nice Admin Theme. I used it in my technic blook and i love it to work with.
Very cool. I didn’t think you’d continue fluency after 2.7!
This is an amazing admin theme! Thank you so much for creating and working on this. The hover over effect is excellent and the keyboard shortcuts are a great time saver. Just plain awesome…
Wow, this is simply great.
I’m a web designer, and wordpress is obviously my cms of choice. I’ve been looking to use something like this for a long time.
Anyway i could package this with client work? Just to spice up their final product? I know a lot of clients that would prefer logging into something like this, rather then logging into that default wordpress blue!
Please, let me know at paul.unr (at) gmail.com
Yes, thats correct. Comments would have a hotkey if there was a submenu, as the top level hotkeys are only used to activate the submenu. I’ll look at changing this in a future update.
Personally I can’t figure out what the Akismet menu doesn’t live under Comments, that seems weird to me.
Nice, I’m quite overwhelmed how you managed it to top the also very nice default design. And with the keyboard shortcuts I can finally sale my mouse
What I was wondering is why every menu item got it’s shortcut except for the comments. The reason for this is probably that the comments don’t have a submenu, right? But I think it would be nice to have a shortcut for this also.
Plugins getting a main menu item obviously don’t get a shortcut. Perhaps it would be nice if one could configure such shortcuts by one selfs.
Most of the transparency is done using rgba colours, which both Firefox and Safari handle, for IE it should use solid colours. Based on your comment it sounds like Opera may not support rgba.
In regards to the expanded menu, I actually intended to add some code to make sure that it was set to expanded but I ran out of time to add it in.
Yes… the IE(8) stuff needs to be fixed with solid colors.
First, a great theme
then we go with the fun part:
“*:first-child+html” fix mentioned above works like a charm
this site itself needs “untweaking” to work in IE8 - CSS boxing is broken
FYI: Before plugin activation, make sure that the original menu is expanded. Otherwise it will be hidden. There are also transparency issues in Opera, I guess because of Firefox specific CSS-rules.
Great work otherwise, apart from the gorgeous design, I especially like the keyboard shortcuts for menu navigation
Indeed it does, you just happened to drop by as I was uploading the new version.
I’m not seeing any text other than the post title, but I’m hoping 2.0 means a WP2.7 compatible version? In which case I’ll grab it as soon as I’ve upgraded.