WordPress 2.9 compatibility, fixes a few minor style bugs, adds options for custom menu width, menu positioning (fixed or absolute) and show/hide menu icons. More info here or download from the WordPress plugin directory here.
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Fluency Admin 2.1.1 update available now After 2.1 hit 5,000 downloadsin less than a month I decided I’d knock out a quick update. Its not a huge update, but it does fix a few plugin display issues for the following plugins: Acronyms, NextGen Gallery, One-Click Plugin Updater, HeadSpace2 and WP-Polls. Fixes broken styling of Media Library popup and also added an option to set custom logo to display at the top of the menu (replaces WordPress logo). Download it here. Find out more here.
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Fluency 2.1 now available
ArticleIt’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.
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.
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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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.
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Fluency Admin 2 Released
ArticleThere 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.
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.
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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Fluency Admin 2 Feature Requests
SidenoteAs you are probably aware WordPress 2.7 is currently in beta, and is expected to be released pretty soon. The current version of Fluency Admin, will not work with WP2.7 and it is recommended that you disable it before you upgrade WordPress. Due to the complete overhaul that the WP Admin interface has received, Fluency needs to be re-written, I’ve already begun, but I thought I should ask you all if there is anything that you’d like to see it do, I’m open to any suggestions (especially those who may have already been playing around with WP2.7). The new admin, in general, is a huge improvement, so it won’t take as much messing around as it did with the previous version, this should leave me open to do some extra things…
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Fluency Admin 1.2.1
ArticlePlease 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+
As some of you noticed, I neglected to pay appropriate attention to the “press this” styles when I released v1.2, the page was still usable but things clearly weren’t how they should […]
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+
As some of you noticed, I neglected to pay appropriate attention to the “press this” styles when I released v1.2, the page was still usable but things clearly weren’t how they should have been. This update fixes that, I’ve added the necessary styles to Fluency to give “press this” the same feel as the rest of the admin.
I’ve also fixed up a couple of other things that were pointed out to me such as how the sidebar was overlapping the ‘activate theme’ lightbox when using Fluency together with Ozh’s Admin Drop Downs plugin, thanks to Ozh for posting a solution in the comments before I’d even had a chance to look at it. You might also notice that I’ve reinstated the border radius on some of the buttons. I originally removed these in v1.0 because of how bad the border radius looked in Firefox 2, but that has now been fixed in Firefox 3 so the border radius love can return.
The next big step for Fluency will be to get it working with the current WordPress trunk for 2.7, which includes yet another redesign/reorganisation of the admin. It will most likely mean start almost from scratch for the next version, but since the new admin for 2.7 is set out a LOT like Fluency by default (coincidence ???) it should be a fairly simple process. I’ll keep you all posted.
Enough talk, go and grab the update!
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Fluency Admin 1.2
ArticlePlease 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 […]
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.
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Fluency Admin v1.1 Available Now
ArticlePlease 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, […]
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.
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Internet Explorer and Fluency Admin
ArticleOk, 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 […]
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.
