What's the crack?
The Shuttle is a complete beautification of the WordPress Administration Panel. The project has been in development since early 2005. The images below effectively show the future of the WordPress administration panel. These are the images we did on Photoshop, so there is no plugin for you to download, as it's not been incorporated into the final release yet.Who was involved?
One of the beautiful things about this project was the collaborative effort from people of completely different backgrounds, in completely different countries all working for one goal. 1000s of emails were exchanged between myself, Michael Heilemann (of Binary Bonsai), Joen Asmussen (of Noscope), Chris J Davis (of Chrisjdavis), Bryan Veloso (of Avalanstar), Joshua Sigar (of alphaoide), Matt Mullenweg (of Photomatt) and Ryan Boren (of Boren).So when is it coming out?
Matt Mullenweg (lead developer of WordPress) will be incorporating these mockups into the official WordPress releases in due course. I don't know when he's going to be getting round to implementing the code for it all, so if you're willing to help out to move the process along, by all means feel free to contact him and offer your assistance. That's the beauty of open source programmes, it's a collaborative effort from people all over the world.Dashboard - With and Without WordPress News
Links Management
Login Panel
Post Management and General Options
Plugin Management
Theme Management
Writing Posts and Pages
Icons
The superb Silk icon set from famfamfam were used for this project.
[...] Anyway, you might want to hold on to one of the mentioned themes a little longer since, according to a post by Khaled (Broken Kode), the Shuttle might come out in September or later. Also, checking my recent referrers, I’ve found out my theme, along with Tiger and SpotPress, is mentioned in the WP 1.6 Roadmap. However, I personally think WP 1.6 should be bundled with the Shuttle and Kubrick 2. Suggestions [...]
[...] I’ve been using WordPress for three months now, but I never considered of modifying design of the default administration panel in WP probably because I believed in the Shuttle project aimed for a beautification of the WordPress administration panel. However, with the delay of the Shuttle completion (originally due in May, but now extended to sometime in summer), I felt the need of creating a theme for the WP admin panel. Basically, this theme was motivated by the theme from Not That Ugly Designs, which lacks readability and user friendly interface. Also, I’d like to thank Camino for his post pointing out the interface problems in the WP admin panel. [...]
[...] Ich muss sagen, ich wurde ein bisschen von Mike, Chris und Khaled, die am Shuttle-Projekt mitarbeiten, beeinflusst. Ich verfolge seit einiger Zeit ihre Blogs und bin begeistert. [...]
[...] Today WordPress 1.5, which is one of the most popular blog tools, was released. This new version comes with a new default template called Kubrick, creation of Michael Heilemann, and it is really clean, simple, and also customizable. He has recently joined a development team of a project called Shuttle, which is for a beautification of the Wordpress Administration Panel. [...]
[...] Overigens lijkt het er op dat er ook officieel aan de User Interface gewerkt wordt.. [...]
[...] Regardless, the rest of today is going to be spent working on K2, the Binary Bonsai redesign and Shuttle. Keeping busy alright. Though at the moment it's of my own volition, and for once I feel quite at ease juggling them all at once. So here's a little update on all of them. [...]
[...] While checking up on the Shuttle project [via], i read about an up-and-coming idea: WordPress Admin Themes. I guess the idea has really been around for a while, but the SpotPress and WP Tiger Administration plugins are some of the first fleshed-out examples (at least that i’ve seen—not that i’m mad deep in the scene, or anything). And they both look great. Admin theming might be right up my alley. I seem to be more adept at restyling or modifying existing things (à la LCD and MySpace), rather than cookin’ up entire themes from scratch. As Steve Smith said there’s also the Zen Garden-esque challenge of working within constraints of an existing system. [...]
[...] This Shuttle is a project consisting a group of people dedicated to designing (or beautification as they said it) new Wordpress Admin UI. There are Chris, Joen, Joshua, Michael, Bryan and Khaled. Just remember guys, the important things in an admin UI are user-friendliness and ease of use, while a nice look is a bonus only. I still believe in function running alongside beauty. Balance is the keyword here. # [...]
[...] As you can see, this is back. I’m not sure why, to be absolutely honest with you. I’m testing out K2, and a lot of its supported plugins. I was skeptical using at first because I had set my mind on using Squible, but after a couple of days of using K2 I think that I’ll stick with it this time. That, and I’ve installed WP Tiger Administration to make my Wordpress experience all the more enjoyable until Shuttle is released. [...]
[...] As you can see, this is back. I'’m not sure why, to be absolutely honest with you. I'’m testing out K2, and a lot of its supported plugins. I was skeptical of using at first because I had set my mind on using Squible, but after a couple of days of using K2 I think that I'’ll stick with it this time. That, and I'’ve installed WP Tiger Administration to make my Wordpress experience all the more enjoyable until Shuttle is released. [...]
[...] Shuttle & Other Projects Not long ago, I was invited to help design a new backend for Wordpress, dubbed Shuttle. While the latest developments on that front look great, I simply haven’t had the time it deserves. I hope this will change sooner, rather than later. [...]
[...] Overall, to me, large armounts of the new admin pages feel clumsy and over AJAX’d. Surely the Wordpress team can do better than this? I’m hoping that Shuttle is going to be released sooner rather then later so I don’t have to keep staring at this ugly blue post page… // Used for showing and hiding user information in the comment form function ShowUtils() { document.getElementById("authorinfo").style.display = ""; document.getElementById("showinfo").style.display = "none"; document.getElementById("hideinfo").style.display = ""; } function HideUtils() { document.getElementById("authorinfo").style.display = "none"; document.getElementById("showinfo").style.display = ""; document.getElementById("hideinfo").style.display = "none"; } [...]
[...] WordPress Version 2.0 Beta was released with many elements from the work we did in the Shuttle collaboration. More news on this will come I promise. [...]
[...] Incidentally, this post was written on Wordpress 2. It’s quite shiny, and the Shuttle project has payed off in making the back-end appear slightly more forgiving, rather than the spartan surroundings it provided to writing before. [...]
[...] Shuttle Apart from TSA, another option would be Shuttle. A project started ( and has yet to be completed ) by Khaled Abou Alfa along with team coders. Progress has been slow for Shuttle in 2005, although now I’ve been seeing some slight progress. A fact you might not know, in the early days of this blog – I used Khaled’s Rin theme as my Wordpress theme, I used it after some minor modifications to it for 2 months. [...]
[...] So recapping January I didn’t complete everything I had on that list of things to do, the main one was Shuttle. My intentions were very good however I got sucked into sorting out my book and that honestly did take a great deal longer than I originally anticipated. I did however sort out a couple of things that have been lingering over my head for a very good long while, mainly my logo and the associated business cards which I’ve also sorted (more about the business cards and online printers in an upcoming mammoth post). [...]
[...] Today I decided to sit down and have a crack at redesigning the interface. Now based on previous experience, this sort of thing takes months. I’ve been dealing with Shuttle for over a year and a half. Even though we’re getting closer it’s been very tough to keep the motivation of everyone in the group up. I’m going to see it through no matter what. I decided to play around with FOFRedux because I really want a good RSS aggregator that sits on my server and because I needed a bit of a break from Shuttle. [...]
[...] If you’re interested in these things and would like to see what goes into making the administration panel of a programme, then I present the Feed on Feeds Redux Redesign mini-site. It’s just a quick install of the excellent Zenphoto which I’ll be skinning heavily in the coming days. I’ve got such a massive burst of creative energy right now. This project is very different to the Shuttle project because there are no expectations on us. This is trying to promote an open source application which is why I’m being so open about it. I hope that this will help build some form of awareness to the project and get some interested programmers on board. [...]
[...] This looks promising as an alternative to the current WP admin interface [...]
[...] For the past year the Shuttle team has been working on the beautification of the WordPress administration panel. The original team was just going to be myself and a couple of coders (Chris and Joshua) who were going to take the designs I came up with and make into a reality. Luckily Michael was having the same thoughts at the time and so he joined our rag tag team. In a cunning move he brought in the inemitable Joen to the fold as well. So now we had enthusiasm (me), flair (Michael) and experience (Joen) along with Chris and Joshua ready to kick some coding ass and take names. Matt caught a whiff of this and though we were forking, which obviously we’d never dream of. So we invited him to oversee where we were going with all of this. Meanwhile Steve was working on his Tiger admin panel half way through our design, and as you can imagine the stakes got raised ever so slightly. Unphased we continued to plow through. Email after email, mockup after mockup. [...]
[...] Khaled over at Broken Kode has posted some non-final mock-ups of the long-awaited Shuttle Project. [...]
[...] The Shuttle team has finally released some mock-ups of what they envisage their admin panel will look like for Wordpress. Check out the pictures on Khaled’s Broken Kode and prepare to be suitably impressed with their plans for one of the only weak points of the awesome Wordpress blogging solution. With some hard hitters in the team including Chris J Davis, Michael Heilemann, Bryan Veloso and of course Khaled, its a possibility that this could make it into a future release of Wordpress. For the time being, if you haven’t checked out Steve Smith’s WP Tiger Admin, you should (read my quick intro here). [...]
[...] I knew about the Shuttle project before. This project tends to “beautify” the Wordpress admin interface. However, this is the first time I have ever seen any results from the project. The results look astonishing. [...]
[...] For the past year the Shuttle team has been working on the beautification of the WordPress administration panel. The original team was just going to be myself and a couple of coders (Chris and Joshua) who were going to take the designs I came up with and make into a reality. Luckily Michael was having the same thoughts at the time and so he joined our rag tag team. In a cunning move he brought in the inimitable Joen to the fold as well. So now we had enthusiasm (me), flair (Michael) and experience (Joen) along with Chris and Joshua ready to kick some coding ass and take names. That young upstart Veloso joined us half way through the year to add some insight and youthfulness. Matt caught a whiff of this and though we were forking, which obviously we’d never dream of. So we invited him to oversee where we were going with all of this. Meanwhile Steve was working on his Tiger admin panel half way through our design, and as you can imagine the stakes got raised ever so slightly. Unphased we continued to plow through. Email after email, mockup after mockup. [...]
[...] WordPress Shuttle Project，这个在很久很久以前就开始的计划，一度由于没有任何进展消息放出而被怀疑已被搁浅。今天Broken Kode终于放出最新消息，提供了界面截图，但是仍然没有最终定论，请各位耐心等待WordPress有史以来最漂亮的后台界面，我想这个日子应该快了，我希望是今年上半年-_-;。 [...]
WordPress Shuttle Project...
WordPress Shuttle Project，这个在很久很久以前就开始的计划，一度由于没有任何进展消息放出而被怀疑已被搁浅。今天Broken Kode终于放出最新 ......
[...] Mientras tanto el grupo Shuttle Wave One alojado en www.brokenkode.com esta lavando la cara al panel de adminstracion para lanzarlo con la version 2.1.0 proximamente. Aqui podemos ver sus avances. [...]
[...] Shuttle es un proyecto para mejorar la interfaz administrativa de WordPress. Los responsables de llevar adelante este proyecto, han colgados algunas capturas de pantalla e información en Broken Kode. Vía Mangas Verdes. [...]
[...] — (Via Broken Kode | We’re All Broken Kode » Shuttle). [...]
[...] … این قالب هم فعلا به صورت نسخه آزمایشی منتشر شده ! لینک ثابت [...]
[...] Erm, don’t take everything to heart, I talk a lot of shit as you’re going to find out. Topics I cover are enhanced podcasting, Shuttle, I have a little bit of a rant on Apple and generally make a tit out of myself. So come join the fun. Listen Now: [...]
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[...] It’s pretty funny how quickly this design was completed. In comparison to Shuttle this took a week to produce all the mock ups. A number of back and forth emails between myself and the rest of the team and we were able to home in on what needed to be done. A lot of the speed does have Shuttle to thank to be honest as over the year long commitment that was the Shuttle project it helped develop the way I think about User Interfaces for web based software. Without the lessons learnt on Shuttle, I don’t think I would have been able to complete the design in a manner that satisfied everyone; in fact we’d probably still be in the brainstorming part of the design. [...]
WordPress 2.1 vendrá con Shuttle...
Hace ya algún tiempo que oí hablar de Shuttle, un proyecto no oficial en el que personas de varios países llevan trabajando desde el año pasado, y que pretende realizar un completo rediseño del panel de administración que emplea WordPress. Os aco...
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[...] Kode’s Shuttle Theme, despite never actually launching, may be the future look of the WordPress admin, or has at least [...]
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[...] where the final product is a lot more important than the individual ego. Perfect example is Shuttle. 3 designers, 3 coders (Matt is over seeing what we're doing). One goal. Better the software and [...]
[...] all, people sharing and contributing to something bigger and better.This also means that the name Shuttle and everything else might/probably will change. Hey I'm completely flexible when it comes to this [...]
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