Specifically, the Habari admin uses methods that allow plugins to alter the interface wholly, not just insert controls in certain places. The result is a cohesion of form and function that even plugins integrate with well.

You can see this at work in how well the media plugins (like the Flickr plugin) integrate into the posting interface. With this underlying “FormUI” feature, plugins can add additional fields and shuffle around existing fields to provide an arrangement of controls that makes the most sense for the task they’re presenting to the user.

What you see in the Habari admin is not just a slick design by one of the best designers to influence blogging, but also evidence of Habari’s desire to be deceptively simple, yet deeply robust.

Thanks for taking the time to review what Habari has to offer, and I hope you continue to keep up with our work on Habari.

I reckon it wouldn’t be difficult to replace the WordPress admin with a Habari one via a plugin. I won’t be doing it though.

I am looking forward to doing some development in a more structured environment; although, I have no intention of ditching WordPress.

Keeping things simple is deeply ingrained in the culture of Habari: you won’t see us adopting any of the bloat which WordPress has come to see. Heck, even pingback functionality isn’t core (instead, it’s in one of the default plugins).

Fortunately, there is a very powerful plugin architecture and API (http://doc.habariproject.org/api). Unfortunately, the API is still a little undocumented