New Mobile Device Theme
March 24, 2010 in Business Development, Productivity
I have just added the WP Touch plugin to this blog, so you can read it more easily on your mobile device.
Is WPtouch?
More than just a plugin, WPtouchTM is a mobile theme for your WordPress website. Modelled after Apple’s app store design specs, WPtouch loads lightning fast and shows your content beautifully, without interfering with your regular site theme.
WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application experience when viewed from an iPhoneTM, iPod touchTM, AndroidTM, or BlackBerry StormTM touch mobile device.
How Does It Work?
It detects the user agents of these devices and serves up its custom theme to those visitors only. You can add additional user agents if you choose in the admin panel.
I thought the iPhone/iPod touch/Android shows my
website just fine the way it is now?Not all websites are created equal, with some sites failing to translate well in the viewport of a small mobile device. Sidebars, smaller text, and certain types of content won’t render or do so poorly.
Many WordPress sites today make heavy use of javascript files, image-heavy sidebars and so forth, which increase page load times, driving your visitors on 3G/EDGE batty.
So that’s why a solution like WPtouch makes sense— a lightweight, fast-loading, feature-rich and highly-customized “theme application” to deliver your content.
You can get it for yourself at Brave New Code.
