WPtouch 1.4 Released: Maintenance Tune-Up

by Dale Mugford ~ Oct 05 / 2008
5 Comments

WPtouch 1.4 has been released here on the website and on the official WordPress plugins repository, which means you can upgrade automatically through the WordPress 2.5+ admin panel if you’d like.

This update is meant as a maintenance update, targeting performance, stability, and fixing outstanding bugs with the WPtouch 1.x branch.

In addition, we’ve started assembling a page for everyone who has donated or supported WPtouch, and want to thank everybody for their ongoing support and commitment towards WPtouch.

Here’s a list of the updates/changes for 1.4:

  • More jQuery tune-ups, now loads through wp_enqueue_script() or Google to prevent collisions
  • Changed $J to $wptouch to prevent collisions using jQuery
  • Offloaded jQuery loading from our folder to Google instead for WP > 2.5 sites
  • Fixed a bug in wptouch.php on line 232, fixing drop-down menu display issue
  • Fixed a bug where blank admin options were allowed instead of refused
  • Fixed a bug with overriding the site title in the WPtouch admin
  • Fixed some instances where ajax comments would not work
  • Fixed a bug where the loading of javascript files would load in your site’s default theme
  • Enhanced drop-down menu appearance
  • More compatibility with other plugins
  • Code cleanups and optimizations

Stay tuned for more information about our exciting 2.0 release…

REMEMBER!
ANY modifications you have made to template files will be overwritten, this includes uploading your custom icons.

For this reason we recommend that if you have customized your WPtouch install that you download directly from our site and and make a backup of your server installation of WPtouch before applying the update. Then you can re-apply your customizations to WPtouch afterwards.

We are developing a much better method of updating for the 2.0 branch, which will get around these types of issues.

5 Comments

  1. Thank you. The upgrade worked flawlessly… I just moved my extra icons out to a temporary location, copied them back after doing the upgrade through the WP admin console, and everything is still working just fine :-)

    I’m slightly confused about how to make up the Links and Archives pages mentioned in the options panel, but I guess that’s a Wordpress thing I’ve not figured out just yet.

  2. Everything went OK… kinda. Didn’t like how it wiped out my base icon for the site and needed to be replaced. Hope that doesn’t happen with every upgrade… otherwise 1.4 will be it for me.

  3. Dale Mugford

    BNC Design Guru

    1 year, 11 months

    @ ROBERT: It’s the same with any plugin updated through the WordPress admin- the folder for WPtouch is moved, replaced, and the the older folder deleted. It’s not something we can control.

    You can upgrade manually, instead using FTP and the downloadable zip file.

    Not to be ostentatious, but we do include important reminders about this on the WPtouch homepage, and in posts like this.

  4. Thanks for the update. I am looking forward to 2.0. To solve the issue of WPtouch using pages specifically for the iPhone, and leaving an empty dummy page on my blog, I am going to edit my wp-theme to automatically remove links to these pages. :) Still in the need of a categories page guys!

  5. Chris

    1 year, 10 months

    I’m having an issue with the admin link. It is linking to the root rather than the proper directory… http://www.test.com/wp-admin rather than the way it should be… http://www.test.com/directory/wp-admin I know that there was an issue with this before and it was solved for many users. I checked the WPtouch.php and it does have the wpurl tag in there but it is still not working for me.

    Thanks for your help!


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