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Fluency 2.1 now available

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.

Fluency 2.1 now available

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.

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Article 20 Sep 2009 3 comments 0 likes

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WordPress design tweaks voting WP users should vote, I’ve got a few options in there (all based on Fluency), voting closes until 2am Thursday UTC. There a re ten choice all up, check ‘em all out and vote for your preferred one. I’m think the possible final solution could end up being a combination of ideas from a few different designs, will be interesting to see the feedback after voting. I’ve written a little more about my suggestions here if you’re at all interested.

Link 29 Apr 2009 5 comments 0 likes

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Fluency Admin 2 Released

There is no doubt that the brand 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 that’s 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.

Fluency 2

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.

Keep reading for further details, screenshots, and most importantly the download link.

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Article 12 Dec 2008 18 comments 0 likes

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Fluency Admin 1.2

Please not that Fluency 1.x is only compatible with blogs running WordPress 2.6.5 or older. Please use Fluency 2 for blogs running WP 2.7+

Ok, before you go and get all excited I should say that this is a pretty basic update, mainly just compatibility. As most of you probably know WordPress released version 2.6 a few days ago, and those who follow me on Twitter (and you better be using Hahlo …or there shall be trouble :p) would be aware that I have been working on making sure Fluency remains compatible.

The latest version of Ozh’s Admin Drop Downs works with this release (if you use Ozh’s plugin with Fluency 1.1 you probably noticed it went all crazypants after you updated…yeah you did didn’t you). I’ve also taken a little bit of time to fix a few little things that had been bugging me for a while, most are so minute you won’t even notice them.

And that’s about it, nothing much else except to tell you that the download link can be found at the top right of the page after the jump, and you can find out more details here.

UPDATE: I’ve just received an email tletting me know that the Press This bookmarklet doesn’t work so well with 1.2, I’ll take the blame for that, for reasons unknown I’d crossed it off my to-do list, but its definitely a bit wonky. I will try and get it fixed ASAP. Apologies.

Article 20 Jul 2008 10 comments 0 likes

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Fluency Admin v1.1 Available Now

Please not that Fluency 1.x is only compatible with blogs running WordPress 2.6.5 or older. Please use Fluency 2 for blogs running WP 2.7+

Happy April Fool’s Day everyone! I had planned to play a prank on my visitors (I even had the post all written up) but I thought this would be better.

This is no joke, as promised Fluency v1.1 is now fully compatible with the stable release of WordPress 2.5. Thank you to all those who provided feedback and bug reports which helped iron out most things, and huge thank you to the 5,100+ people who download v1.0 (in just 20 days). Remember if you have any issues, jump over to the forum or the bug tracker and let me know. If I don’t know about a problem I can’t fix it.

Theres no new features as such, but a lot of “fixes” for things that changed between WP2.5-RC1 and the final release of 2.5. From big things like the “Add Media” modal dialogs now being styled correctly, to the smallest detail like adding 2 extra pixels of padding to an element. I won’t list all the changes, but if you’re interested you can get an idea of the main changes by checking out the bug tracker.

I’ve now got full and proper support for several popular plugins, including Ozh’s Admin Drop Down Menus and NextGen Gallery. For full details about which plugins are supported head over to the plugin compatibility page, and if you’ve got a plugin you would like to supported just let me know. A big thanks to Ozh for his help and suggestions in streamlining the method used to apply the styles on a per-plugin basis.

Ok, thats enough talk, what are you waiting for. Download v1.1 now and give it a whirl. And you can find out more details here.

Article 1 Apr 2008 29 comments 0 likes

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Internet Explorer and Fluency Admin

Ok, since so many people keep asking why Fluency Admin “does nothing when activated in Internet Explorer”, I thought I should post a nice graphic example of why I have it set up this way. I can guarantee that I would have had dozens more complaints if I had released it with broken IE support from the beginning…

On the left is a screen shot taken of Fluency running (or trying to) in Internet Explorer 6, quite clearly something is VERY wrong. And I have absolutely no idea how long (if its even worth it) it would take to fix. On the right is a screen shot taken of Fluency running in Internet Explorer 7. I was extremely surprised at how close it is to working correctly (since it was never tested in IE7), only really seems to be a few things out of alignment, which should be fixable.

What does this mean? Well, since IE7 is so close, I’ll see what I can do to get it working for the next release. All I need to do is find a different method of ‘hiding’ Fluency so that IE7 can see it, but IE6 can NOT.

Article 26 Mar 2008 8 comments 0 likes

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Fluency Admin 1.0 released

Please not that Fluency 1.x is only compatible with blogs running WordPress 2.6.5 or older. Please use Fluency 2 for blogs running WP 2.7+

Ok, so it’s a tiny bit later than I originally promised, but I was hoping that WP2.5 would actually be out on the 10^th so that I could give Fluency the once over when running on the final product. But so I don’t keep you all waiting, I’ve run some checks against the latest build (11−03−2008 nightly) and it all looks good. So those of you who are already running the WP2.5 can start using Fluency straight away. No doubt there will probably be more changes between now and the final release of WP2.5 but I work them in as they come.

Features

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
Have a look at the screen shots here for more detail. Screenshots are now online!

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 ~~web server~~ 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.

Note about plugins

In this initial release I’ve added support for WP-PostRatings to ensure that its options page displays correctly. Over time I’ll continue to add more plugin support so keep an eye out for the updates. And if you have a plugin you would like to see supported then please let me know via the support forum or bug tracker.

Support

If you’ve got any questions about Fluency, you can leave a comment or better yet jump over to the support forum and I’ll do my best to help you out. I’ve also set up a bug tracker, so if you come across something that isn’t quite right post the bug and I’ll look into it.

Fluency Admin Support Forum

Fluency Admin Bug Tracker

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 left of this page just below the download link. All donations are greatly appreciated.

Article 11 Mar 2008 22 comments 0 likes

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