WordPress Administration Design: Tiger
After working with WordPress for several months now, I felt the Administration area needed a little ‘freshening up.’ I wanted the utility to feel more like an application, and less like a traditional website. So I pulled some inspiration from my newly installed OS X Tiger, and created a mockup with Fireworks.
Update: Version 1.3 Available
Update: For future news about this plugin, download info, and more, visit the WP Admin Tiger page.
I knew from the beginning that I didn’t want to touch the XHTML of the Administration, just the CSS file, and adding a few images. Almost Zen Gardenesque. It wasn’t until I started digging through the XHTML that I realized what a challenge this would be.
It’s clear to me now that the WordPress developers have placed their primary focus on the front-end of their product, as well they should. With limited (read: volunteered) resources, features should be added and code tuned where it will be of most use. This is obvious with innovations like the Template System. However, this front-end focus would appear to have left the XHTML of the back-end a little anemic. (Please don’t misread this paragraph, it is in no way degrading the WP team, they produce an excellent product.)
Never one to back down from a challenge, my ensuing CSS development relied heavily on the additional hooks and selectors provided by CSS2. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, the only ‘widespread’ browsers to understand CSS2 are Firefox and Safari, and since the JavaScript quicktag buttons used in the WP Admin aren’t yet compatible with Safari, that leaves Firefox as the only fully function option. It will still work in other browsers, it just may not look very good. With the new plugin features, in browsers other than Firefox and Safari, the WP Admin area will default back to the original design.
Here are a few screenshots:
To install the new Administration design, just download the plugin and unzip unzip it into your wp-content/plugins folder. Then just load up your Admin area Firefox, activate the plugin, and enjoy.
The more I play with CSS2, the more I realize how important it is that browser developers work towards its standards. It opens up brand new styling methods, and I can see its ability to cut down the size of your XHTML files even further. It’s the next, inevitable, step.
To Download Tiger WP Administration, visit the WP Admin Tiger page
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Wow, Steve!
In a word: Beautiful…
June 9th, 2005
Very cool, Steve.
You’ll be happy to know that I have already integrated it into a fairly large project I am working on.
June 9th, 2005
Looks excellent Steve. I’ve never been a fan of the wp-admin area, and since upgrading to 1.5.1 I haven’t had the chance to customize it to my liking. This definitely did the trick!
June 9th, 2005
My God. Great work. Thank you!
June 9th, 2005
Gorgeous. Every time I used wordpress, I always thought about how ugly it was. This new look is a huge, huge improvement.
June 9th, 2005
I know I have already told you this but really nice work. Not only does the admin area look nicer, but it functions better. One of the things I am fondest of is the excerpt area size increase. The default excerpt area is so stinking small you can only read one or two lines at a time. Also, nice attention to detail in all areas of the new admin style.
June 9th, 2005
Hey Steve, I just noticed that floats all the way to the left in the navigation. I thought it was just with a plugin, but it also occurs on the categories pages and such. Thought you might want to know.
June 9th, 2005
WOW, very nice! Thanks.
June 9th, 2005
Beautiful, but unfortunately it doesn’t work in stupid IE. :(
Can you pull up something that will make it work in IE as well?
June 9th, 2005
The screenshots filled me w/ lust and I knew I had to play with this!
Great job!
June 9th, 2005
Excellent work; I’m a huuuuuge fan of Wordpress but have always thought that the Admin area could do with sprucing up – this new design is so much nicer to navigate around.
June 9th, 2005
Very, very nice work. A few section the “super blue” of tiger is a bit over used ( the plugins page with many active plugins is quite shockingly blue, as an example ).
Additionally, you may want to combine all the background images for the navigation into a single image that is repositioned via css (background-position, i believe) that when people click one, it loads the whole set and there’s no more waiting.
Finally, the CSS styles totally wreak havok when using the “Write it” bookmarklet.
All of this minor in comparision to the GREAT FREAKING JOB YOU DID.
June 9th, 2005
It looks very lovely… but it does malfunction when in IE… Not that I would normally use it in IE, but in case I were stuck in a bind with a computer that online had IE and I wasn’t allowed to download Firefox…
Another problem… I allowed a friend of mine to view the new style in my blog under a guest login, and it tossed back something that looked rather odd (see screenshot). I don’t know what’s causing it… and it’s not happening for me… he’s using Firefox as well.
June 9th, 2005
Oh, and one last thing. Having the “comments” box scroll was kinda nice. As it is, my bazillion categories push the post page down a lot
Oh hey, my comment preview plugin – :D Nifty!
June 9th, 2005
First off, let me say that this thing rocks. Just a note, in the CSS file, in the #wp-head block, I had to change the position variable to “absolute” so that the “view site” button wouldn’t scroll down.
June 9th, 2005
Very nice. I had been thinking about doing something like this myself. Thanks.
June 9th, 2005
Steve, mint style thanks a lot.
One problem/bug: the PressIT Popup is knackered. The page that loads has a body id of “wpbookmarklet” so I think specifying just slightly different dimensions for that would be easy?
June 9th, 2005
Looks brilliant Steve. But still a little buggy. Will definitely be back for 1.0 tho!
June 9th, 2005
That definitely looks great! Nice job!
June 9th, 2005
Looks incredible. I’ll definitely consider this if i ever use WordPress for a personal project. For clients I’d have to wait until a more compatible style was available (i understand this requires considerable effort on the part of WordPress developers themselves, but i’m still hoping)
Well Done!
June 9th, 2005
I love it! Thanks, Steve!
June 9th, 2005
I’ve installed this for my sites using WordPress – and is now the official style for the WP installs of the 9rules Network.
Excellent job on creating a solution for something that’s been begging to be done.
June 9th, 2005
Wow. Excellent work! I’ve always disliked the default admin interface… this is so much nicer.
June 9th, 2005
Somebody had to do it! Great!
June 9th, 2005
Amazing! Thanks a ton for this, although I’m sure it wouldn’t be too tough to get Safari to look right. It is so close too!
I don’t understand why quicktags are necessary for the theme?
June 9th, 2005
Nice work Steve… Thanks!
There´s something going here to, as stated “The Shuttle will be a complete beautification of the Wordpress Administration Panel”. look forward to see it.
June 9th, 2005
Thanks for this plugin! I’m waiting for the plugin to work in IE as planned, though. Even though I use MF as my browser of choice, I may not always have the opportunity to use it on all computers. I’ll keep track of the bugs you eliminate in this one! Great work!
June 9th, 2005
This is just absolutely b-e-a-utiful! Thanks very much for this!
June 9th, 2005
This is awesome—even the extra plugin pages look great… you smartass! ;p
June 10th, 2005
Great theme! I just installed it and looks absolutely marvelous! Thanks for designing that theme for WP!
June 10th, 2005
This is really great, thanks for developing a WordPress Admin theme that’s not as ugly as the original one but really beautiful!
June 10th, 2005
Really great work and it’s so wonderfully Mac-like. It looks good in Safari. Love it. Thanks!
June 10th, 2005
It’s quack-tastic!! THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING!! :)
June 10th, 2005
Beautiful :) Already using it!
June 10th, 2005
Whoa.. it is very cool. Thanks. I love it
June 10th, 2005
Excellent. FYI, “Hello Dolly” plugin doesn’t display properly (Safari 2.0).
June 10th, 2005
Beautiful ! Magnifique ! ... Great work !!
Thx !
June 10th, 2005
What would kick even more ass is if you’d make this a plugin, like the SpotPress admin interface. That way, nothing should be backuped and stuff…
But still, great work!
June 10th, 2005
Fantastic job on this Steve. Thanks for taking the time to do this for the WordPress community. It looks really smooth and professional.
June 10th, 2005
I LOVE this! Is there going to be a version that works with IE, which is what we have to use at my office? If it becomes cross-browser compatible, I agree that it should become the default admin panel in future versions of WP!
June 10th, 2005
Guys this really ROCKS! Just added to my website. I’m also wondering what plugin are you using for the comment live preview. Is it http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/LiveCommentPreview ?
June 10th, 2005
Beautiful work, Steve. Now looking at the backend won’t be such an eyesore! Likewise, I felt (like the rest of us Wordpress users) that the backend was severely lacking in the design department.
Thanks again.
June 10th, 2005
Excellent stuff! I look forward to this becoming a plugin as well.
Maybe for the next version you can remove the dreamweaver notes in the zip file however.
June 10th, 2005
Me likey!!! :)
Thanks for your hard work!
June 10th, 2005
An update has been posted: Version 1.1. A few bug fixes listed above in the version history. No new images, so if you have already installed the design, you just need to overwrite the wp-admin.css file.
As far as a version for IE, the only thing I can say is as soon as IE understands CSS2, it will work. Hopefully (cross your fingers) IE7 will play nice with CSS2, but at this point, it’s a no-go.
Thanks for all the support, guys. I appreciate it.
June 10th, 2005
Wonderful. Quite simply remarkable.
June 10th, 2005
Amazing. At first I thought it was kind of plain and boring and didn’t understand what the fuss was all about. Then I realized I hadn’t correctly transferred all the files from the Images folder. Once I hit F5 after doing that, I suddenly saw the light.
I don’t know if this is inspiring (i.e. makes me want to really learn CSS so I can do stuff like this) or depressing (I realize I will never be this good!)
Thanks so much for making my WordPress experience Tiger-ific!
June 10th, 2005
From the screenshots, this certainly looks impressive and wondrous. However, I’ve run into a small problem – namely, I can’t get it to work. :(
Now, the instructions are certainly simple enough – unzip the wp-admin.css and dir into the wp-admin directory. Done. When I go to the login screen for my admin page, it’s skinned. After I login, back to default. This is all in Firefox as well, mind you. Also odd, if I try to go in through IE, although the formatting is borked, it skins the admin pages “correctly”.
Thanks for the help, in advance – looking forward to using this. :)
June 10th, 2005
Great job! only one trouble, it doesn’t render properly the ‘write’ page using Firefox. It foes a horizontal scrollbar. Everything else work fine. Thanks
June 10th, 2005
Superb, simply superb!
Now I can get to see what all the OS X fuss is all about ;¬)
June 10th, 2005
This is lovely. Thank you.
antonio m (#74) is right though: the the custom fields portion of the “Write” page forces a horizontal scrollbar, which then borks the left sidebar.
Screenshot.
Using Firefox on XP.
June 10th, 2005
You have made my day. The Admin look, organization, and feel is the one area of WordPress that makes (now I can say made) me uneasy and where tools like MT rule (used to rule).
Installation is a snap, it works like a charm, my eyes are happy, I’m now fonder of WordPress than ever. Maybe Tiger admin will become the next Kurbrik of WordPress (in the best sense).
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
June 10th, 2005
Hey, I love it, and I posted about it and have more screenshots at my site.
Good stuff. Thanks alot.
June 10th, 2005
This is great!! Thanks so much.
June 10th, 2005
WOW!!! it really looks nice…
Maybe you could try to convert it into a plugin just like SpotPress (http://homepage.mac.com/kohlmannj/wordpress/spotpress/).
If you need help on this I might be able to give you a hand.
June 10th, 2005
Woah… it’s amazing, brosky! Converting it into a plugin would be great! It would help the spreading of this stuff A LOT. Amazing work… really.
June 10th, 2005
Very good work. Looks really nice! Thumbs up!
Thank you…
Greetings from Germany!
June 10th, 2005
One word: Beautiful
Excellent job.
June 10th, 2005
Great work Steve. Really fantastic.
For anyone who’s as hesitant to change WP’s core files as I am, I went ahead and made a Greasemonkey script that will trash the old styles and overwrite them with Steve’s great work.
It’s here.
June 10th, 2005
You did strictly with CSS? wow… Screen shots look awesome!
Can’t wait to try this…
June 10th, 2005
nice, thanks!
June 10th, 2005
very cool, however it doesn’t seem to work with Matt’s WYSIWYG plugin
June 10th, 2005
I think I just switched to WordPress. LOL jk. Both TXP and WP have their benefits, but this sure slides the scale a little.
I just set up a test area with this admin theme and am in love. Next project is going to run on this for sure.
Just when I finally got used to Textpattern… drat. ;-)
June 10th, 2005
Dead sexy, great job!
June 10th, 2005
Thanks the backend isn’t just functional now, but also looks pleasant. To bad hardly anyone will actually see it.
June 10th, 2005
OK, so I made it a plugin. Thanks to all who submitted help. I was beginning to work on it myself, but you saved me a few minutes work. Thanks.
I’m particularly proud that the new styles are imported using a method IE doesn’t understand, so IE will default back to the original style, no browser sniffing involved. So when you view the Admin in Firefox, the Tiger theme will show, but when you view in IE, the default theme will show.
One disadvantage to the plugin nature, the filter that loads in the CSS file in the WP header file is not run on the Press It and Link It bookmarklets, nor the login page, so those will resemble the default look.
Download it here. For those who have already installed the design, just load the plugin, activate it, and replace your backed up wp-admin.css file.
June 10th, 2005
I’ve converted all of my clients and all of my own sites over to this new admin design. They all are very happy, and so am I. Thank you!
June 10th, 2005
Thanks and congratulations for your work
-enforced by the surprise I got when I came back here and found out you made it a plugin (that’s just better than really good;))Just one little opinion of mine: the file editor and theme editor textarea’s should have a monospaced font, for their purpose is specifically editing code, rather than content. I know that’s not as Mac’ish as how it is now, but I think it’s more usable that way. ;)
Bests,
JC
June 10th, 2005
Smashing Job, Steve! I love it!
June 10th, 2005
Excellent work! It looks great, thanks for sharing this with us ;)
June 10th, 2005
Whoa, great job. I can’t believe what you’ve done with this. Very slick design work.
In all fairness, WP has a pretty good default admin interface. But this one should replace it.
Kevin
June 10th, 2005
Wondrous job! My hat is off to you, good sir. Not only are the WP Admin pages nice to look at now, the plugin version fixed my problem of it not working before. :P
Thanks again!
June 10th, 2005
Looks really nice, gonna take a peek right now.
June 10th, 2005
Niiiiice :)
June 10th, 2005
Wow, I want the same for my DotClear’s blog ! http://www.astuces-win.com/blog/
Nice work ! :-)
June 10th, 2005
Beautiful, just beautiful! Works for Mozilla too (naturally).
I have a couple of problems: the currently selected tab (#adminmenu) doesn’t appear – like it’s white text on a white background. Also, the “view site” link in the header (float to the right) is invisible. It’s there, because I can click on it, but I can’t see it).
June 10th, 2005
Problem Solved
The problem I was having with invisible buttons turns out to be a permission problem. The files in ol_admin_images all extract with mode 0600. All it took to fix things was a chmod go+r *.
June 10th, 2005
A lovely interface! Much improved over the orignal. Afraid I’ve apparently encountered a problem, though. I use the IImage Browser, which adds an “insert image” button to the “Write” WP admin page, but alas this button disappears when I activate the Tiger Style Admin plugin.
June 10th, 2005
Steve, I’m having the exact same problem as nikkiana (comment #18).
Two screenshots of how the menu looks after I’ve hovered it: screenshot 01 screenshot 02
Could you help me fix this? (I’m using Firefox 1.04 – WinXP Pro SP2.)
You’ve done a great job here, and I want to enjoy it to its fullest.
June 10th, 2005
Doesn’t work for me…unzipped the ZIP file into my plugins folder, and activated the plugin via the admin interface, but the admin still stays the default WordPress admin.
Maybe because you made it a plugin instead?
(Just looking at the changelog…)
June 10th, 2005
> Doesn’t work for me…unzipped the ZIP file into my plugins folder, and activated the plugin via the admin interface, but the admin still stays the default WordPress admin.
> Maybe because you made it a plugin instead?
Same here. :-(
June 10th, 2005
Umm.. That looks pretty good .. But will it support IE ..? Or have you any plans to do so ..?
June 10th, 2005
The plugin doesn’ work for me too…i put the wp-admin-tiger.php and the wp-admin-tiger_files folder in plugins folder,activated the plugin but nothing happened.
But i did some digging and i found out that in the wp-admin-tiger.php files the path was /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-tiger/wp-admin-tiger_files/wp-admin.css .. i just changed it to /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-tiger_files/wp-admin.css and then it worked. Thank you for this beautiful design.
June 10th, 2005
Works great!!
Looks great!!
I don’t like the styling of the inputs & textareas, but I think, I can figure out, how to fix that…
June 10th, 2005
Yeah, I ran into the same issue. He just needs to repackage the zip file to correct this issue. I also noticed a lot of extra directories (starting with “__MACOSX”, so I figure a lot of it has to do with the translation from Mac to PC.
Kudos!
June 10th, 2005
This plugin is grrreat. ^^
Thank you very much.
June 10th, 2005
Elegant implementation; great job!
June 10th, 2005
I had to replace my stock wp-admin.css file with the one in the plugin to get things to work completely. In particular, active plugin highlighting was still the old green. I just didn’t see that mentioned anywhere in the install instructions.
It’s fantastically beautiful, and usable too! I love being able to see all my categories.
June 11th, 2005
yeah , really god job . thnx.
June 11th, 2005
Love it and as a Mac user I’m now more at home :) Are you taking bugs/problems? I use ‘Jeromes Keywords’ plugin. On the write post panel this puts up a new input field ‘Keywords’ and a textual list of keywords you have already used. The input field displays just fine but the textual list is not showing. Not world shattering but the HTML is being generated so it is just the CSS missing it somewhere. But hey – thanks. There’s no going back after using this!
June 11th, 2005
shorty114 et al: As hafizmuhtar already almost noted, you have to upload the whole wp-admin-tiger -folder that comes from the package. Also: chmod +655 for the files, at least! I had some problems with that too for some odd reason. ;)
June 11th, 2005
Oh, except that I was wrong about the name of the folder inside the zip. Sorry. Anyway: /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-tiger/[everything here]
June 11th, 2005
You rock!
Genius, I tell you!
Keep up the great work, my friend.
June 11th, 2005
You know what, you rock.
June 11th, 2005
Well, here’s somemore of the same: http://homepage.mac.com/kohlmannj/wordpress/spotpress/
June 11th, 2005
Hey, really good work. Thanks. :-)
Unfortunately I have a problem with the newest version – 1.2. I’ve unzip the files to the wp-admin/plugins folder (so that wp-admin-tiger.php is in the plugin root folder), but I can’t activate it, ‘cause the theme is not listen at the admin area/plugin. Can somebody help me? :-) Thanks, and sorry for my english.
June 11th, 2005
@Ryak: it’s not that way
-made the same mistake first time. You have to upload the wp-admin-tiger folder to plugins folder, so that wp-admin-tiger.php lies on wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-tiger. Don’t forget to check CHMODs for files and folder, and should be fine. ;)June 11th, 2005
You’ve done a beautiful thing here… Thank You! I had some trouble getting it to work at first. Had to chmod 644 the files in the “ol_admin_images” directory, as well as “wp-admin-tiger.php”. Here’s the setup that works for me:
June 11th, 2005
Looks amazing! Great job
June 11th, 2005
Great work, this improves the admin interface no-end, only problem I currently have is that, like Walter Hutchens above, I use the ‘Image Browser’ plugin and it’s link has disappeared, as has the one for ‘WP-Amazon’ which used to appear just under the post buttons.
I checked the source and they both seem to be still be in the page, just not showing.
Any ideas?
June 11th, 2005
As mentioned by one of the responses, I took a look at the CSS URL in the plugin PHP file, and it seemed to be incorrect. I changed it, and it’s all beautiful now. I had to deactivate it momentarily because I’m on IE right now, but I’m going to turn it back on when I get home, where I have Firefox.
June 11th, 2005
Ah, now I see what the wp-admin.css @import was for…I had changed the CSS URL to the tiger.css instead of wp-admin.css. Well, now I can leave it on.
Thanks, great plugin.
June 11th, 2005
Ummm, not to be a downer here, but I downloaded 1.2, uploaded the files into my plug-ins directory, activated the plug-in and nothing changed.
I’m uploading the images as binary, everything else as ASCII; I’m using WordPress 1.5.1.2 with Firefox 1.0.4 and I’ve cleared my cache, session cookies and history. Still nothing.
I also tried uploading your wp-admin.css into my wp-admin directory. Big mistake.
Also, consider removing the Mac OS hidden files from the zip file.
Help? I’m feeling left out. :/
June 11th, 2005
^^
You put the FOLDER in the plugins directory… not the content of the folder. Is that what you did ?
June 11th, 2005
I’ve uploaded all the files and activated the plugin, but nothing seems to be happening. I wish I knew why it wasn’t working, because an apple overhaul is just what my admin panel needs!
June 11th, 2005
xplatinum,
Yes. /me blushes
June 11th, 2005
Hey Steve, I too installed the plugin, activated it and nothing happened. in either firefox or safari. not sure what the deal is but i can’t wait to get my wp admin area whipped in to shape.
do you have any ideas? i’m gonnna go tinker with the code, maybe it’s a directory path thing, not finding the new stylesheet?
tight site design too, btw. love the live preview and all the rounded edge goodness, that css2 is slicker than Digable Planets.
June 11th, 2005
I was having the same problems, but thanks to hafizmuhtar’s commentabove it works. all you have to do is change the path for the file in wp-tiger-admin.php from /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-tiger/wp-admin-tiger_files/wp-admin.css to /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-tiger_files/wp-admin.css and it should work. Great FREAKIN work steve, I’m loving it!
June 11th, 2005
ahhh, Steve, I just read your flickr note that this plugin uses Firefox’s greasemonkey. is this true? if so, it doesn’t mention anything in the text above. just thought you should know. that’s probably why i wasn’t seeing anything in Firefox. i’ll have to go check out greasmonkey, i’ve been lagging on it, since i like safari so much.
muchisima gracias.
June 11th, 2005
oh snap!
I got it to work using David and hafizmuhtar’s comments above. and it works in safari! whoa, it’s gorgeous. Steve put up a paypal thing somewhere and let us tiger-fans drop you a micro-payment.
We all appreciate your work.
June 11th, 2005
Just amazing. Great work!
June 11th, 2005
Charles W. Stricklin, how are you unzipping the file? If you’re using the default Windows XP unzip functionality this could explain it. Try using something else. Try a proper unzipping tool..
June 12th, 2005
Looks excellent!
June 12th, 2005
I there. I know this is a lot specific, since it relates to a plugin rather than base Wordpress, but since it is such a widely used one, I think it would be plesant to fix this, if it is fixable from your tool’s side. I’m talking about Skippy’s Gravatar plugin. WP Admin Tiger’s CSS makes the cached gravatar “boxes” extra-thin, like 100×10 pixels or something, when they should be a lot “taller”.
June 12th, 2005
Wow – thanx!
June 12th, 2005
Great plugin! Makes the backend simply beautiful and much nicer to use!
Johannes
June 12th, 2005
Amazing piece of work! Congratulations!
June 12th, 2005
WOW! very nice work indeed!
June 12th, 2005
I need some help. I don’t know why, but my Administration always “falls back” to the WordPress default style. Even in Safari 2.0 and Deer Park Alpha 1.
I use WordPress 1.5.1.2, is that is helpful. I uploaded everything to my plugins directory and then activated the plugin. Are there some capabilities the server has to have which I should know?
June 12th, 2005
Very nice! I love it!
June 12th, 2005
This is great, but I do have one (admitedly minor) complaint—I use the “Press It” favelet a lot, and it kind of messes with the posting screen in that (it’s quite easy to fix by editing the favelet to increase the window size, however).
June 12th, 2005
Hi
It doesn’t seem to work for Internet explorer 6. I think it may have something to do with the png support. I would like to have a look at this style properly!
I have done a few tweaks in the admin section but I don’t think it would affect the CSS.
Thanks
June 12th, 2005
WOW
- very nice -thanks!June 12th, 2005
Holy Cats! This plugin is awesome! I cannot believe the dramatic change. I can tell that it took quite a bit of time and effort. So let me say thanks for your time and effort.
Cheers!
June 12th, 2005
Great! I’ve had this in mind for some time, but I’m way to lazy to actually do a redesign just for my own pleasure… Many thanks!
June 13th, 2005
I love it…
June 13th, 2005
I Know it’s been mentioned about 197 times in the comments already, but here goes again: Great work, thanks for taking the time and the effort. WordPress just feels so much nicer now!
June 13th, 2005
I know you don’t need any more praise (199 responses) for this theme but I gotta say “good work”. You’ve done an excellent job on this. Sure it can be improved, but immediately after installing this plugin it works and works well and that’s what is important. So, thanks for making my wordpress admin interface pretty. My eyes appreciate it. ;)
June 13th, 2005
I’ve noticed a couple little problems so far:The submenu (black and blue on grey) links aren’t properly aligned, at least not vertically, in any browser (Firefox, Safari, Opera).The “newsfeed� on the Dashboard’s bottom, there are images before them and the odd ones appear all way, the even ones miss the last row of the image for some reason. Likely a
line-heightor an em/%�sized fonts problem. This is something that happens in Mozilla, by the way.The “( edit )� links on the Dashboard (#zeitgeist ul li smallif I see it correctly) should bewhite-space: nowrap;’d because someone at WP thought it would be cool to have breaking spaces included there.June 13th, 2005
Doesn’t seem to make much sense to design an interface to emulate OS X, so that users/admirers of OS X will feel more comfortable, but then not ensure that it works in OS Xs default browser.
June 13th, 2005
nice work! however, worth noting the following: 1) the perms are screwed on *nix systems 2) the menu bar is way too wide for those of us with small resolutions.. would be nice if it were resizable
cheers
June 13th, 2005
This is gorgeous… thanks!
June 13th, 2005
Wow, this is awesome. Thanks!
June 14th, 2005
You did it Steve: that’s EXCELLENT work.
June 14th, 2005
Just installed your plug-in…
...very nice!
June 14th, 2005
Wow… I am in love! Very nice job. Great incentive, well deserved make-over. Thanks sincerely!
Also your site design is very unique and well laid out.
June 14th, 2005
Awesome theme…simply loved it :)))
June 14th, 2005
Great work! I just installed it this morning and it looks GREAT!
Have a look at the Wordpress Dashboard Widget that just turned up this morning! http://www.paniris.com/wordpressdash/
June 14th, 2005
Wow! Thank you! It’s wonderful!
June 14th, 2005
Thanks a lot – just downloaded your plugin. I’ll use the next 5 minutes to install it – WP admin had to be styled ;-)
June 14th, 2005
I have to thank you for this wonderful theme, posted about it on my blog. I have a question though, I use the amazon plugin and what would normally be right below my text field is not gone, see? How could I get that to appear in the new theme? Thanks!
June 14th, 2005
Installed the tiger plugin…oh my goodness, this is WILDLY cool. Lovely job indeed.
One small gotcha perhaps, but when I’m in the admin iterface there seems to be no way to get back to “View Site”...or at least I see no link to it anyway. Guidance would be greatly appreciated on how to cure this.
If I knew where/what_file to edit I’d cure it myself but thus far I spent no time whatsoever in the admin area…like most folks, spending time in the blog theme are itself.
Anyway, thanks for a great GREAT plugin.
June 14th, 2005
That’s amazingly sweet. Stylish. Thanks for that!
June 14th, 2005
207/Kenneth: I tried in OS X.3 and Safari and it worked there just fine! (don’t have Tiger yet…)
Steve, sorry about the bad formatting of the previous one, I had no idea that it’d strip
<li>and<p>, as these showed right in the live previous window. Also no idea why you got pinged by my blog twice, it certainly wasn’t intentional!June 14th, 2005
This is absolutely outstanding. I can’t say enough about how much more pleasant my WordPress experience is now. Thanks.
June 14th, 2005
Quoting myself earlier: “One small gotcha perhaps, but when I’m in the admin iterface there seems to be no way to get back to “View Siteâ€?…or at least I see no link to it anyway. Guidance would be greatly appreciated on how to cure this.
If I knew where/what_file to edit I’d cure it myself but thus far I spent no time whatsoever in the admin area…like most folks, spending time in the blog theme are itself.”
OK, I fixed it, or at least it’s a fix that accomplishes being able to transition to “Home” or “View Site” from within the admin interface, and here’s the fix in case anyone else runs into the same oddness I did (which IMO has nothing to do with this plugin:
In line 15 of /path-to-wordpress/wp-admin/menu.php I added:$menu[50] = array(__('Home'), 7, '../index.php');which produces a “Home” link within admin, right above “Logout” and that’s good enough. Oddly (and here’s the reason for the original post) there is no hyperlink behind the blog name at the top of the admin interface…anyway, it’s now solved.PS don’t ask me what the significance of “7” is in the above line of code, it just is unique and it works. I jsut hacked at it until something produced the desired output.
Damn this is a lovely plugin, and now I can enjoy it to the fullest. Thanks!!
June 14th, 2005
Nice. Do you know when it will have IE support? My school is still on IE, and people complain to me about my ‘ugly website’, when I’m only admin-ing on it. Anyway, nice job!
PS. Why is the ‘upload’ icon a download symbol?
June 14th, 2005
Very nice! I love it.. finding this made my day, I told all my wordpress-using friends about this, and they loved it too :)
I’m using it on my blog at thejosher.com.
Josh
June 14th, 2005
Looks superb, works like a dream. Thank you!
One problem I have – I’m running the WP-Amazon plugin, and when I switched over to this theme I no longer get the Amazon link on my Write page (so I can’t access the Amazon Plugin)... any ideas of a fix?
June 14th, 2005