WPtouch – WordPress For Smart Phones

On May 16, 2010, in Thoughts, by Silver Fox

I came across a nice little plugin for wordpress blogs that makes them more smart phone friendly :)

The plugin is called: WPtouch

What it does:

It detects the user agents of mobile devices and serves up its custom theme to those visitors only (It will not interfere with your regular theme) . Pretty nifty and saves you writing the code yourself (I had it in the pipeline too ;) ). Its pretty customizable too, so you can have it try to match your existing colour scheme. Version 2 is around the corner and it promises to be even more flexible :)

Problem:

This plugin adds a few links in your header file and also provides a “Powered By” link. These links are in violation of wordpress plugin terms as no option to remove them is provided. I manually edited the header file of the plugin to remove the excess links. I also edited this file:

wp-content/plugins/wptouch/themes/default/footer.php

Pretty simple to edit,  but a little naughty of the devs.  Regardless of this I think its pretty nice feature to have on your blog.  If you want to have a look then visit my site on your mobile device.   The loading times should be a lot faster! :D

 

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