Shuttle

What’s the crack?

The Shuttle was the conceived complete beautification of the WordPress Administration Panel. The project originally started development in early 2005. The images below effectively show what could have been 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 and it never will be.

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). However ultimately this was for nothing.

So when is it coming out?

Matt Mullenweg (lead developer of WordPress) originally discussed that this would be incorporated into the official WordPress releases in due course however ultimately this was not done, Bryan was asked to do the job which for one reason or another wasn’t completed his way (ask him for the details). However happily for WordPress users Happy Cog sorted the design from version 2.5 onwards.

Click on the thumbnails below for full sized images.