Comments on: WPtouch 1.5 Released

By: Abhinav

Abhinav — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:24:37 +0000

Thanks for WPTouch, it shows my blog on iPhone in a really nice way. My post on this.

By: BoostMyCode

BoostMyCode — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:50:21 +0000

I wrote a post about your great plugin. All the essential customization options are there to ease the deployment of an iPhone-compatible blog. I am now working on replacing the date next to the article with a thumbnail. Again: Great job!

By: Juan

Juan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:51:27 +0000

WPtouch: Could anyone find an option for “categories listed” ?

Like you use:
Automatic Archives page layout (if you have or create a page called ?Archives?)

Is a same function for Categories not implemented yet ?

By: Dale Mugford

Dale Mugford — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:13:09 +0000

@ Keil: it’s impossible to please all the requests that are made for us and WPtouch. We do our best to incorporate them though, in the order of which we feel will please the majority of users first, and then, if we feel it’s a fit, work to please the smaller voices of our user base.

In this case, I’d recommend just changing the style option for yourself. Edit the theme header.php file and make your necessary mod.

Regarding post images, they don’t scale to horizontal orientation of the phone/ipod, but vertical only.

If you rotate on a post image you’ll see what I mean. It’s a CSS limitation, and we didn’t feel like adding a whack of javascript just to auto-detect orientation at this time. That’s a bit of candy we’ll throw in later.

By: Keil Miller

Keil Miller — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:42:21 +0000

I also noticed that inserting images with large dimensions inserted into a post will cause the app to add padding to the background on the right side, though the image is scaled appropriately by the plugin.

Check it out. It is a possibility that it has to do with my theme. I am still new to wordpress… my theme is a “work in progress”.

By: Keil Miller

Keil Miller — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:30:33 +0000

Or you could just force us to pre-compose our images… that way you would have the same appearance in your apps header as the image saved when you click “add to home screen” in safari.

By: Keil Miller

Keil Miller — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:27:55 +0000

There is two different options for specifying an apple touch icon;
apple-touch-icon
apple-touch-icon-precomposed

The normal option rounds the corners of the specified image and adds the top gradient. No rendering will be done when the pre-composed option is specified. This is good for icons using white, as a gradient added will make the icon hard to see.

The WPtouch plugin does not allow us to specify which one we want… and automatically composes the image.

By: Dale Mugford

Dale Mugford — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:32:58 +0000

Do you mean the bookmark icon? If so, it’s set to be automatically the header icon. Not sure why you’d want two different logos…