Flut­ter has been a great plu­gin for Word­Press, allow­ing CMS devel­op­ers to lever­age cus­tom post types and write pan­els through an easy to use GUI. Unfor­tu­nately over the past year or so devel­op­ment has slowed down some, and has even forked into other projects.

Flut­ter

Accord­ing to many Flut­ter is still very much alive, but with the cus­tom post types being built into 3.0 I think it’s appar­ent to Freshout, the com­pany behind flut­ter, that 3.0 post types may even­tu­ally replace the demand for the plugin.

Magic Fields

Magic Fields build on the core of Flut­ter, tak­ing it furthur for­ward and squash­ing some tough to tackle bugs. If you dig Flut­ter, but can’t seem to come to grips with some of the bug fixes that are needed to make it run prop­erly, I highly rec­om­mend check­ing out Magic Fields.

Furthur Read­ing

If you’re inter­ested in more I highly rec­om­mend tak­ing a look at the fol­low­ing articles:

• Flut­ter is Not Dead Says Navid, Matt Mul­len­weg Takes Notice
• Flut­ter now Magic Fields, Adminimize
• Script for Migrat­ing from Flut­ter to Magic Fields