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If you are looking for a different approach and design to the admin section of your blog, and don’t want to wait to see if Shuttle is ever implemented, try giving Tiger Admin a look. I haven’t looked at the new version yet, but I have tested previous versions and they were well done. I’m comfortable with the default look, but that might be laziness or habit more than anything.
An update of this build off of another plugin is now out. For those who want to take their site down while testing a plugin, or updating a theme, this is the ticket. Still allows for admins to view the site, while visitors see a message saying to check back. Can be a very handy tool for any WordPress blogger.
While on the subject of Mark, and now that 2.0.5 is officially out, I felt it would be more appropriate to mention this plugin now. Many users do not have a need for all the boxes on the write post screen, and would like them gone. Now you can do that, on an individual user basis. The editing is done via your profile page, so if you ever need to turn back on an element, it’s simply done in the admin area. Note that a v.3 is the most current, which now removes the preview and image uploader elements, rather than hide them via CSS, as previous versions did.
You can be sure I’ll be using this plugin on my own blogs, particularly to do away with the image uploader element, as that element does hide like others.
This handy plugin has been updated to 2.9. For those not familiar, it provides an unobtrusive menu bar above your blog when logged in to facilitate posting and managing your blog.
While there, check out the many other updates to the multitude of plugins that Denis has released to the community.
Also, Denis has opened a forum for his many projects.
Broken Kode
Announced last week that Shuttle was “launched”, and subsequently the WP community was in a sea of posts recanting the “launch” of a new admin interface for WP. The truth of the matter is, there isn’t any code, from what I’ve read, purely some images, and some Photoshop files. There also seems to be mulitiple versions, and a split within the team that developed it. So the truth of the matter is yes, a lot of time and energy was put into mocking up a better interface, but much more work will be required before it truly is launched. I wouldn’t expect to see any of this in 2.1, and I’m not even sure what the roadmap looks like from there.
The Daily Blitz
I see this request more and more in the support forums. Blog owners want their logged in users to redirect to something other than the dashboard. This plugin does just that, piggy backing on Owen’s Role’s Manager plugin. Also allows you to change the default “login” and “logout” text brackets, as well as the “Register” and “Site Admin” brackets.