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
Great! it’s simple it’s handy and it looks great joomla is so difficult and not so simple this is just simple and great working i’m gonna test it great script!
Can we become Plugins Link on top, to jump?
e.g. active, lately, inactive…
Perfect with Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu, thank you!
Are you using Firefox/Opera/Gnome or IE (fluency does not support IE, or more likely, IE does not support standards)
i uploaded the folder and installed the plugin but nothing changed/???
skins looked nice too
Just wanna say, this plugin makes the entire Wordpress Admin interface so much better. I can’t use the old one because of it.
Elaine: IE doesn’t support a lot of the stuff Fluency does, so I assume it’s disabled if it finds IE.
hi there, really great admin design! just one small request if possible, there is a plugin i am using “qTranslate” http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/ and when i go to the write page section in the admin the qtranslate plugin creates a tab for each language in the wysiwyg editor. these look a bit out of alignment when fluency admin is activated. if you could let me know how to fix this i would be so grateful. thanks so much
This is stunning work! and I really love it.
Only gripe, I can’t seem to get it in ie7, as in I can’t see fluency admin in ie7. It works in opera and ff. (It could, however, be my server problem.)
Awesome!
Stunning work. SOOO much nicer and easier to use than the default.
Love ya work :)
Did you know eyeballs can sigh? I’ve been having a lot of trouble with the new admin area; for most low-sighted people, white text on bright colors like orange is a nightmare. Your theme is wonderful to look at in more ways than one. Thank you.
Yep, that fixed the problem with the overlay. Thanks.
Is it intentional that the WP plugin upgrade system didn’t catch this update?
I’ll install the upgrade tonight after work and let you know if takes care of that issue. Thanks.
Hi Bryson, have you tried the 1.2.1 update, theres a fix in there to stop the overlay problem that was occurring with Ozh’s Admin Drop downs, so it might also fix the problem for other plugins.
Noticing a problem with certain plugins that use thickbox to display content, like the wassup stats plugin. The side menu stays on top of the overlay, which blocks content. I can’t drag the overlays around either to get it out from under the menu. I am speaking of the menu when it is not expanded, tho even when it is dropped down with ozh’s plugin, it still sits on top of the overlay.
Nevermind my problem here, ozh just released an update that fixes the problem. Again, great plugin, will be nice when WP takes this style for its default.
Dean, great plugin dude. I tried every one out there, and if they looked good, it didn’t work with ozh’s drop down menu, nice work.
I am having a problem though, and I’m not sure if it is on you, or ozh. I have the drop down menu plugin setup to not show the icons for each link, which worked fine before I installed your plugin. It mostly still does work fine now with both plugins installed, both fully updated of course on a 2.6.1 install. I’ve also found this problem in safari 3 and ff3. The link for the settings page for the drop down menu not only still shows, only when both plugins are installed, but it repeats the icon across the entire link, two rows worth actually.
Is that this plugin, or ozh’s?
Its Safari, none of the above mentioned plugins are installed and even uninstalled EVERY plugin, the issue still remains.
Any additional info about your setup, browser, OS etc might be helpful. I’m using Fluency with 2.6.1 right now and its working fine. Keep in mind when viewed in IE6 and 7, Fluency won’t change anything.
This isn’t work at all on 2.6.1, ideas?