WP Tiger Admin 2.0
WordPress 2.0 has been officially released, and on it’s tails comes an update for WordPress Tiger Admin, the plugin that does a complete makeover on the Administrative interface. For those of you who have upgraded already, you can download the update now.
For those who have not made the upgrade, be sure to thoroughly research before updating your WordPress installation. As always, make sure the plugins you rely on, as well as your templates, are compatible with the new version.
So when you get to running 2.0, download WordPress Tiger Admin. If you have any questions or problems with the plugin, please post them to groups.orderedlist.com so others can see the solutions as well.
For those of you currently using the plugin, I hope you are enjoying, and continue to enjoy, it as you use WordPress. If you’re not, give it a shot. It installs with a plugin, so you can always deactivate it at any time.
And just a reminder, WP Tiger Admin takes advantage of the advanced capabilities of CSS2. Therefore, only browsers that support these capabilities (eg. Firefox and Safari) will display the enhanced admin. Luckily, other browsers will default back to the original admin theme, so no harm done.
Update: 2.01 has been released with a fix for the ‘gap’, a logout button, and a few other fixes.
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Published December 29, 2005 by:
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Thats great, I dreaded going back to the old WordPress interface look!
Now to see if I can sum up enough courage to upgrade to 2.0…
December 29th, 2005
You may want to change the version number from 1.3 to 2.0 in the wp-admin-tiger.php file. Downloaded it twice before I realized it was a bug.
Otherwise, great job.
December 29th, 2005
Yeah, there’s always something to look over… Thanks for the catch.
December 29th, 2005
Wow Steve, That was a quick update. Nice work!
December 29th, 2005
In the writing section, there is a huge gap between the “Title” and the title entry field. And also, on all of the pages, when I load them there is a split second where it loads the default admin, then loads the Tiger admin.
Other than that, good (and quick) work!
December 29th, 2005
Great work again! I was really getting annoyed by the standard admin interface to WP on my test blog (one can never be too sure that everything will really work together) prior to your releasing v2.
The sole oddity that I noticed with v2 of WP Tiger Admin is that the “log out” link has disapeared from the left-hand column.
Again great work keep it up!
December 29th, 2005
I’m having exactly the same issues as Andrew Hamman, other than that it seems great – very impressive plugin especially since it doesnt alter any of the XHTML structure of the admin interface :)
December 29th, 2005
Been a big fan of this plugin since v1.5 (and your site for longer!) You are a CSS genius!
One thing I noticed in v 2 is that the logout link has vanished… it doesn’t appear in #adminmenu in the markup, but just above it in a div (#user_info).
December 29th, 2005
Spot on!
December 29th, 2005
Andrew and Ross: I’m not seeing the ‘gap’ you’re talking about. Would you mind taking a screenshot? And the ‘Flash of Unstyled Content’ is just because the plugin adds an additional
<link>to the head of the page under the main admin css file. The flash happens if there is a pause in loading between the two. On pages that are cached it won’t happen.About the ‘Logout’ link, I did notice it, but I wasn’t sure if it was used enough to be worth figuring out a placement. Aparently I have my answer. I will address this in the next update.
December 29th, 2005
I’m getting the gap as well. Here’s what it looks like:
http://files.jeremybell.com/gap.jpg
This is in Safari 2.0.2 (416.13)
December 29th, 2005
Thanks a lot Steve, this plugin is awesome!
December 29th, 2005
Thanks Steve, this really is a truly awesome plugin!
December 30th, 2005
thanks , awesome plugins :D
December 30th, 2005
i’m experiencing this gap too, if i use Safari. In Firefox, everything looks cool.
December 30th, 2005
I’m experienced the same “gap” in Safari 1.3 (Mac OS 10.3.9).
Thanks.
December 30th, 2005
Minor glitch : footer in your Install.PDF mentions “Feedburner Plugin for Wordpress”. Damn :)
December 30th, 2005
Hello Steve…
Thanks Steve for this apps… looks great!... Nice work… Greetings from Jakarta, Indonesia…
December 30th, 2005
(I’m expericing the gap thing too with Safari 2.0.2 (416.13))
Anyway, thanks for this update ! Your Plugin is one of the best !
December 30th, 2005
Ok, 2.01 is up. Same download filename, but a few things have been fixed. The ‘gap’, the logout button has been added to the top bar, and the post page sidebar has room down the whole form. Upgrade away. Again.
December 30th, 2005
This is great. I was hoping you’d update your plugin. That was quick! Thanks :)
December 30th, 2005
#moremeta { width:20%; float:right; margin:0 0 0 15px; position:relative; right:0; } #template, #postdiv, #titlediv { width:75%; margin-bottom:10px; } #quicktags + div { margin-top:5px;/* clear:both;*/ float:left; width:100%; } .submit, #quicktags, .editform th, #postcustomsubmit { text-align: left; width:75%; } .editform th, .editform td { border-bottom:1px solid #D9D9D9; width:33px; }now there is only this damn iframe…
December 30th, 2005
uhh that was toooo fast for me :)
forgive i am new to help wordpress developers, it themes they are one of the fastest…
December 30th, 2005
Ohh I nearly forgot, I am using this plugin with opera 8.5 and it works nicely :) thanks for the work
I like doing hattricks ;o)
December 30th, 2005
I love it.. Regardless of the to little things that are drivng me crazy.. None of my comments are showing on the admin page. And in the edit themes area the window to edit is huge.. Since I just downloaded mine .. I would think that neither of them were already addressed. Or maybe its me..
December 30th, 2005
I’ve had two problems so far with 2.0:
- when I scroll down, the Logout button in the top right corner of the screen disappears. - when i click on a link in the left navigation, the nav jolts a little.
i’m on FIrefox 1.5 on Windows XP
December 30th, 2005
Speaking of comments not showing up. I’m guessing this is the same issue, you’re just not looking close enough ;). The comments aren’t on the sidebar but in the main body of the dashboard.
December 30th, 2005
Ah, see, this is what I get for making updates too quickly without enough testing… =} The logout buttong is fixed, as well as the template edit box, although I couldn’t replicate the jumping nav. I’m not going to version it because that was just my mistake, but I did update the download. Thanks for the catch.
December 30th, 2005
The bottom of user edit window is cutoff. I sent you a pic via email. Anyone else have this issue?
December 30th, 2005
The template editor box seems to be too wide and pushes down below the right sidebar options too. But other than that thanks for bringing my favorite Plugin to Wordpress 2.0!
December 30th, 2005
The logout button will not be displayed if the blog is set to use a localization other than English, because it relies on the value of the title attribute. It took me some time to find that out on my blog.
Why don’t you use the following selector instead? #user_info a[href$=”/wp-login.php?action=logout”] {
December 30th, 2005
Wow thanks a lot that was quick I am downloading it right away
December 30th, 2005
Thanks Steve, the gap has been fixed, and I think that the delay I was experiencing was something wierd with Safari’s cache. Thanks alot man!
December 31st, 2005
Thanks a bunch! I was so surprised and thrilled to see you update your plugin. ((hugs))
December 31st, 2005
Sweet! looks good steve. Thanks
December 31st, 2005
Amazing job, once again Steve!
December 31st, 2005
Not sure if this was ultimately what fixed it but remember to try forced-refreshing (Shift-Ctrl-R in firefox) your cached CSS and things. I had some weird visual stuff on the Write entry page until I thought to try it after upgrading from v1.3 on wp1.5 to 2.01 on wp2.0
Thanks again for updating and the great interface!
January 1st, 2006
I am getting an error with the way categories show up for the “write” menu option
screenshot
January 1st, 2006
Deepak: According to that screenshot you’re using v1.3, not 2.0. Download and install the 2.0 version, and you should be all set. If you did this, then try to delete your browsers cache and refresh the page.
January 1st, 2006
Man, “You the man”, a real Pro.
January 1st, 2006
I still have the bottom page getting cut off when you try and edit a user. Here is a screenshot: Error Pic
Firefox and Safari yield the same error.
January 1st, 2006
Try this again
January 1st, 2006
On the write a post page, if I expand one of the sidebar items, like Post Author, the upload block shrinks in half and gets a scrollbar. I am using Firefox 1.5.
January 1st, 2006
The latest comments part of the admin sidebar is showing up in the main part of the front page above the “Welcome To Wordpress” greeting. I tried re-downloading, re-uploading, refreshing, clearing the cache, and nothing’s worked so far. I’m using WP 2.0 with FF 1.5. I can provide a screen should you need one.
BTW, love the plugin and used it with 1.5.2 and I swear by it. This should be the default WP admin theme.
January 2nd, 2006
When I am writing a post in Safari v2.02 the publish buttons are not visible. Here is a screen shot: write screen
Otherwise everything else is awesome.
January 2nd, 2006
Love this addition to WordPress….thanks for your work!
January 2nd, 2006
Installed Wordpress for the first time (successfully, anyway) just yesterday. Found your plugin today. Gorgeous, easy to install and use, and matches my faux-OSX Windows system perfectly! Great job!
January 2nd, 2006
I’ve installed the latest version of the plugin, but I’m noticing another odd bug that is reproducible.
http://files.jeremybell.com/gap2.png
After a post has been published, the screen refreshes and I’m left with the above layout. The textfields are locked at that size, and a page refresh is required to force them back into shape.
January 2nd, 2006
Thanks you I was used this, I love this one, thanks again. :)
January 2nd, 2006
This one is really great! I like it a lot. By the way, you got a very nice web page.
January 3rd, 2006
I’d love to give this a try but unfortunately I wasn’t even able to install the plugin correctly. My blog is hosted on yahoo, and it won’t let me have a file named “wp-admin-tiger-v2.0”. i tried removing the ”.” and it worked, but then of course the plugin doesn’t show up with my other plugins. Any idea how I can get around this?
January 3rd, 2006
Shannon: The file you download is a .zip file named wp-admin-tiger-v2.0.zip. It’s likely that the program you used to download the plugin knocked off the .zip part if the file you have ends in .0. Try adding .zip to the end of that file and extracting the archive. The files you need should be in there.
January 5th, 2006
I love this plugin!!!
the only thing that i see is what someone has recently noticed about the recent comments section on the dashboard…
January 8th, 2006
I’ve noticed if, when you go to manage > posts (or pages) > [any post] the ‘preview’ button is dimmed and barely visible behind the discussion (et al) area. Clicking it does what is intended, but the button is all but visible to a casual glance.
Any way of fixing it?
Preview Button Hidden
January 9th, 2006
This is the best plugin I ever had, Thanks a lot. There is one problem. I looks like you are running a mac. When I downloaded the file there seem to be a file called
.DS_Store
in the wp-admin-tiger folder
I think you should delete it
Overall, Thanks
January 10th, 2006