Ok, it has taken a couple of weeks and about a dozen different WP installations, but I finally managed to replicate the mysterious “disappearing ‘hide menu’ button” bug that so many of you were reporting — so hopefully this update should resolve that issue (it resolved the occurrence that I produced). Also included are the first batch of translations (Italian, Turkish, Spanish and Chinese). As always, grab the update from here or use the built-in auto-updater.
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Fluency 2.3.1 update now available
This minor update should hopefully fix the two common issues people were experiencing with the initial release of 2.3 — the menu overlap problem on the ‘Menu’ management page, and the lack of two-column hover menus. There are a couple of other small tweaks in there too, plus a new ‘coffee’ colour scheme. Grab the update from here or just use the auto-updater that’s built into WordPress.
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Fluency Admin 2.3 now available
Now compatible with WordPress 3.0. I’ve also added more customisation options including iPad friendly menus, and the ability to turn on/off hover menus and hot keys as needed.
Fluency 2.3 is a recommended upgrade for all Fluency users who’ve already upgraded to WordPress 3.0 (which was released earlier this week). Included in this update, in addition to WP3.0 support, are fixes for a number of small issues that were pointed out by users over the past 6 months, and a few additional options to ‘fine-tune’ how you use Fluency.
Well, what are you waiting for? Read more about the updates here, or head to your admin panel to upgrade/install Fleucny 2.3 (of course, you can also jump straight over to WordPress.org to grab the download from there too.)
As always, if you spot a bug or something I’ve missed please let me know. The best place for you to do so is in my help forums, or, if you prefer, in the WordPress.org support forums.
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Fluency Admin 2.2 now available
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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
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.
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
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.
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
As 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
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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