Comments on: Enhancing Your WordPress Admin Interface

By: Mark Myszak

Mark Myszak — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:59:38 +0000

I guess I’ll have to be a FireFox convert before it’s all over.

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By: Mark Myszak

Mark Myszak — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:30:35 +0000

Am I the only one using IE7???
I tried the dropdown menu plugin last year… In theory it is a great idea, but it was a bit buggy.

I’ll definatly try tiger style…

Thanks again for making the wordpress experiance easier

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By: TheSpot-er

TheSpot-er — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:37:58 +0000

@ Alex - I agree IE6 sucks I generally use it same way as you - testing only to ensure that it displays the content properly.

@ Barry - I ALWAYS copy text first to text editor like Notepad or my favorite Chrimson Editor and only then transfer text to WordPress. It take extra 3 seconds but ensures that I never have issues with formating

Alex

By: Barry McDonald

Barry McDonald — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:03:02 +0000

Sorry

I’m back again but the problems I’ve had in the past with my blog (my feed not showing up) have been corrected since I ungraded to wordpress 2.3.

Also I see they have a microsoft word button to import your posts for your blog maybe this will do away with formatting problems in the future.

By: Barry McDonald

Barry McDonald — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:59:01 +0000

Hi,

I’ve also used the tiger admin plugin and find it a great difference to the normal blue boring admin area, the only thing I’d say is the sometimes some of the buttons are very far down the screen and can be hard to click to save your setting’s.

Maybe this is down to using firefox I don’t know I’ve never checked in IE but I’d highly recommend tiger admin

By: Alex Leonard

Alex Leonard — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:54:52 +0000

Aye, however the new Gecko rendering engine that’s being used for Firefox 3 passes the test without any worry, so at least by the time IE8 comes out, Firefox will be ahead of the game.

I can’t imagine switching away from Firefox, I’ve tried Opera, Flock, Safari, but none of them cut the mustard really. IE will never get my usage other than testing web designs. However I’m still thrilled to see new versions of IE coming out as it will slowly push the usage of IE6 lower and lower - which is a great thing.

The amount of time wasted trying to get things to work in IE6 is insane.

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By: TheSpot-er

TheSpot-er — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:08:52 +0000

Yeah, its funny IE8 passed ACID2 but when I tested my favorite Firefox - it failed go figure…

By: Alex Leonard

Alex Leonard — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:05:32 +0000

I should perhaps bide my time on making a new interface if they admin screens are going to undergo a major change. No point doing a load of CSS styling work and then finding out that the whole thing has to be reworked!

IE8 is sounding fairly good all right, although there are a few issues that some people have brought up regarding needing to specify browser standards mode in a meta tag or something.

However, they apparently have passed the ACID2 test, which is great news.

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By: TheSpot-er

TheSpot-er — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:19:06 +0000

Yeah, that could be a problem …. I hear IE8 supposedly offers a better support of CSS standards. But then again - wp2.5 will include some big changes to Admin interface :D. I guess we can only wait and see. I have seen one mod - perhaps the best of them all, that was never released to the public and developers were talking about it possibly making into official WP release. I can only hope it will be part of the core ….

Alex

By: Alex Leonard

Alex Leonard — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:13:00 +0000

I’m liking the potential of these, especially the Tiger admin.

I’ve been meaning to rework the CSS of the admin interface for a long while, especially when it comes to using word press for a client web site.

Unfortunately the tiger admin is not really an option for me due to it not supporting IE. I wish that I could just do that, drop IE support being that it make everything so difficult, but some clients just aren’t going to know what I’m talking about when it comes to there being alternative browsers out there. Failing me actually going round to their offices and homes and installing firefox and insisting on them using it I’m going to have to work out an alternative style sheet myself…

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