WordPress Shuttle | Administration Redesign Project

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.