Updated August 23rd - Fluency 1.2.1 has been released, this fixes the display issues for the “press this” screen in WordPress 2.6. Enjoy.
Overview
Despite the huge overhaul that the WordPress admin interface has received its still not quite what I would really like. I had grown quite attached to the Tiger Admin theme by Steve Smith and when I found that it didn’t work with WP2.5 I was a little disappointed. But this gave me the opportunity to do something different, my own admin theme. Fluency is the result.
Features
- As of v1.1 it is fully compatible with the stable release of WordPress 2.5
- As of v1.2 it is fully compatible with the stable release of WordPress 2.6
- Super easy installation.
- Smooth grey color scheme (no more blue)
- Menus rearranged, main menus down left, sub menus across the top
- WordPress 2.5+ only
- Support for several popular plugins including Ozh’s Admin Drop Down menus and NextGEN Gallery. Find out more.
- Screenshots are at the bottom of this page, or you can view them at flickr.
- Note: Fluency only works with CSS2 compliant browsers (Firefox and Safari - and IE8!) at the moment. If you are using IE you can still activate Fluency, it just won’t do anything. If you’re desperate for IE compatibility (IE7 compatibility coming soon), maybe you should consider donating.
Download and Installation
It really doesn’t get much easier than this, just download the zip file (the link is at the top right of this page, after the jump for my feed readers), extract the contents and upload the whole ‘wp-admin-fluency’ folder to your plugins directory which you can find here:
[wordpress directory]/wp-content/plugins/[put fluency here]
Then go into your WordPress admin and go to the ‘plugins’ page, activate ‘Fluency Admin’ and you will instantly be using the theme. Easy as that.
The future
I will do my best to keep Fluency up-to-date with the latest stable version of WordPress. I’ve also got a couple of things in mind to make Fluency even better, and more customisable. But for the moment the main ‘updates’ will be support for additional plugins, to make sure that the plugin admin pages remain completely usable and inline with the rest of Fluency.
Plugin Support
In v1.1 I’ve added support for several more popular plugins including Ozh’z Admin Drop Down menus and NextGEN Gallery. For full details about plugin suport head over to the plugin compatibility page for Fluency.
In general if a plugin works in the standard admin it “should” work in Fluency. If not, don’t worry, I’ll do my best to add special support for it. If you have a plugin you would like to see supported then please let me know.
Support
If you’ve got any questions about Fluency, you can leave a comment and I’ll do my best to help you out.
Donations
Plugins don’t design and code themselves, they take precious time to build, test and support. So if you use and like Fluency Admin, or any of my other work, please consider a donation, there is a link at the top right of this page just below the download link. All donations are greatly appreciated.
Screenshots
Here are a selection of screenshots, click on them to view a full size version.
Dashboard
Create New Post
Manage Links
Manage Themes
Widgets
Writing Settings
Manage Plugins
thanks for the great theme!!
Thanks for the great theme!
downloaded and installed. looks great - thanks!
Nice pluggin, shame doesn’t work with wordpress 2.6.5, I’ll wait for an upgrade… thks
Create plugin, it’s a shame it doesn’t work with wp 2.6.3.
i take it back! i put it in the wrong folder. my bad! thanks again!
hey dean, thanks for building this fantastic theme. i use it on almost every blog i contribute to.
unfortunately, i don’t think it’s compatible with WP 2.6.3. i’m working on a new blog right now and i can’t get it to work.
just a heads up!
Wee! Hi! Nice plugin~ Oh my! I love it
I customized this a while ago and have it a touch of pink, haha~ If you want to see it it’s in my blog. Hihi! I hope it’s okay if I customized it.
It’s only for my own use anyway. 
) But please say if I’m not allowed to change it I’ll bring it back. 
Thank you again for this cool plugin! :D
Wee! Hi! Nice plugin~ Oh my! I love it
I customized this a while ago and have it a touch of pink, haha~ If you want to see it it’s in my blog. Hihi! Thank you again for this cool plugin! :D
man, i love this plugin. cool!
I ‘m on Firefox 3.0, Safari 3.1.2, Chrome 0.2.149.29, Flock 1.2.3, (no need to mention this one actually.. but,) ie6.
I ‘ll make a thread for this - if you guys think it’s necessary - you know for a clear view of my situation.
Djarot, what web browser are you using?
It works okay on my local sever. When I brought it up, it’s messy.
Any ideas what might goes wrong?
It doesn’t? I’m running 2.6.2. here and it works fine.
Doesn’t work on 2.6.2. Just FYI.
Hello,
This pluggin seems to be gorgeous but, do you know if that work with the french version of WP ? =)
Thank you for the possible answer ^^
Cool, really cool!!!