WPtouch 1.6 Is Out! What You Need To Know
We’ve just released WPtouch 1.6, a long overdue upgrade on our most popular plugin. We need to detail some changes, as those of you who’ve been loyal users need to be in the know to make the most of the new features and changes.
1. Blank Page Issue Solved, New Re-Direction Option
One of the continued issues faced by some users had to do with seeing a blank page when the homepage was loaded on an iPhone/iPod touch. The issue had to do with a few different causes, one of which is a ‘too many re-directs’ error, and the other a problem with the way that WPtouch looks for your posts page choice in the WordPress -> Reading settings.
We’ve added a new feature to take care of this, and it works by reading your settings for homepage/postspage in the WordPress admin, and respecting those choices. If you choose to override them and choose instead to have another page (or your blog page) as the homepage shown with WPtouch, you can do so by selecting the page you’d like as your WPtouch homepage in the WPtouch admin panel.
2. WPtouch Admin
We’ve added more customized support for the WP 2.7 admin panel appearance, while also updating the pre-2.7 admin appearance as well.
3. Captions, Galleries & Images
We’ve resolved a bug where captions underneath photos/gallery items in a post would run beyond the edge of the screen, and not be wrapped. We’ve also added better styling & support for captions on images and gallery items. Lastly, images & galleries in posts automatically resize according to the orientation of the iPhone/iPod touch, making them fill the width of the post area. We think this is an awesome addition!
4. Inject Mint / Google Analytics & More JS Code In WPtouch
Though not an oft requested feature, we’ve added support for manually adding your Mint, Google Analytics, or other custom javascript code into WPtouch, without having to edit the php files yourself, and ensuring your additions survive future upgrades.
6. Errors & Bug Fixes
We continue to harden WPtouch, removing pesky, sometimes very unique bugs as they’re discovered. Notably in this release we’ve fixed an outstanding Call to a member function get() on a non-object error.
7. Header Login
Another frequent request we receive come from those of you who require login from your users to access premium content/comment on your site’s entries. So, we’ve added the ability to turn on login from the sub-header in WPtouch. Once turned on a new ‘login’ link with an image is placed beside the ’search’ and ‘menu’ buttons, and it opens a drop-down when activated which allows for an automated login which will login a user and automatically re-direct them back to the page they logged in from without having to be taken to the WordPress admin, or having to see the default WordPress login/register page. We’ll add WPtouch-styled registration in an upcoming update.
8. Header Categories
Also requested often was the ability to have Categories in the drop-down menu. We’ve taken it one step further and added it as an option to enable/disable from the WPtouch admin. When enabled, it’ll show a new ‘Categories’ header item which when clicked will drop down a list of your categories shown in alphabetical order.
Holy Jumpin! There’s more?
There’s even more to this release believe it or not! Here’s the full run down:
- Auto-resizing images in posts on orientation change!
- Auto-resizing Flickr images
- Auto-resizing WP image galleries
- Better support for captions on images, gallery items
- Added the ability to enable a quick login button w/ drop-down in the WPtouch header
- Added the ability to enable categories as a drop-down item in the WPtouch header
- Added the ability to disable WPtouch automatic homepage redirection (resolves white page issue)
- Added the ability to manually select a re-direct landing page
- Refinements in WPtouch admin
- Enhanced support for WordPress 2.7 + admin
- Re-designed post comment bubble icon
- Input box to inject custom code (Google Analytics, MINT, etc) into WPtouch
- Basic support for Incognito & WebMate browsers
- General code cleanups & optimizations
- General style cleanups and enhancements
Feel free to head on over to the WPtouch page to download the new version, or use the auto-update mechanism in your WordPress admin to install it. As always, we love to hear feedback from our users, and will continue to add new features and functionality going forward.
What’s Next?
So, what’s next for WPtouch? We’ve got a number of features planned, some of which include localization (for international users), adsense support, WordTwit & Twitter integration, support for excluding categories and much more.
26 Comments
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Love the update. However, I’m still having a problem with captions/images running beyond the edge of the screen. Here is an example;
http://www.theglitch.ws/2009/01/20/caleb/
Thanks!
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It took a while but it’s worth the wait!
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@Ramoonus: It’s working on my development environment running 2.7.1b1, I did some testing and didn’t notice anything strange. YMMV…
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Before I start off, I love this stuff. I just got into, didn’t take long to setup and everything seems to be working except for something that could be minor.
Here’s the scenario. Let say i configured everything correctly, adding WPtouch in the plugin section blog/wp-content/plugins and WordPress is located example.com/blog(i renamed wordpress), now when i goto my iphone, i comes up great, i tap the login, enter username and password, tap login to enter blog, it somehow redirects me up one directory level to example.com/wp-login.php instead of example.com/blog/wp-login.php
When that happens, it returns with “Can’t find that page”. i know i did everything according to all the instructions. Funny thing is, when I do select normal view in my iphone, it logs in like it’s supposed to. I need to mobile login to work.
Can someone please help me with this? I will highly appreciate it.
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Awesome!! If I wasn’t on the edge network I would update right now! I think most if not all of my “I wants” have been answered. Keep up the good work-
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The look and feel is just awesome! Great work!
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Hey guys, to start off I want to thank you for a fantastic plugin!
However, I have to second Obinna Otti’s request for help with the 404 error that comes up when I try to log in while in iPhone mode. My browser is also moved up one level to root.com/wp-login.php instead of root.com/blogs/wp-login.php
What can be done about this? I’m sure it’s something simple :)
Thanks in advance for your help!
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Not working, only giving me the full website as if not using a plugin. I guess I’ll go back to MobilePress for now.
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Same issue as Obinna and others. Login in iPhone view does not work. With a lot of messing around, myself and a colleague got that figured out – but still ‘Logout’ does not work, and commenting fails. I’ve also emailed you about this and a fix was promised in 1.6.1 – when is that due???
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BNC Design Guru
1 year, 1 month
@Patrick: Hold your horses, dude. Seriously, it’s a free plugin, and we work on it when we can. But we have to, in the immortal words of one George W. Bush “put food on our family” first.
We’ll actually be skipping 1.6.1 (maintenance release) in favour of a 1.7 release with a couple new features. Most of everything discussed recently in the comments, on Twitter and in the WP forums will be addressed when it comes to bug fixes.
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Dale – you’re right. This is a superb plugin overall. I’ve turned off my anti-spam plugin (one that was in addition to Akismet) to make comments work for now – and will look forward to seeing the 1.7 release.
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BNC Design Guru
1 year, 1 month
@Patrick: Thx dude. What’s the spam plugin causing the conflict?
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Dale – it was Peter’s Custom Anti-spam. It’s a cool plugin, but it didn’t like letting comments through on the iPhone view, though they would still work if I changed to Normal view. In iPhone view, it kept saying I had not even entered the captcha word.
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Login is messed up like others said. The categories menu is messed up as well. Arrows don’t match up with the words.
Looking toward to a fix :-)
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Great work, and well worth a PayPal donation (and yes, I put my money where your coder is!) Would grteatly appreciate some clues on how to modify the default theme’s style.css file to change the body text.
Been tinkering with the “body” entry but can’t seem to alter the pixel height above a certain size. Would love to make the text bigger. Help?
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Great plugin! One question. I’d really like the plugin to filter out the flash objects in my site. Is this possible?
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I’ve tried installing this with WPMU as a “normal” plug-in but for some reason the “Search” and “Menu” options wont let me select them on a Android G1 (although the rest of it seems to work quite well)
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I’m still having the caption problem where the caption doesn’t wrap and the photo and pose text don’t resize, resulting in the text going off the screen and being cut off. I’m running wordpress 2.8 with WPtouch 1.9 beta. The 1.8 has the same problem. How do I fix this? Thank you.
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BNC Design Guru
8 months, 3 weeks
@Allen yekikan: can you provide a link that shows the issues?
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If the first picture has a long caption it also fails to resize the text so you have huge text that runs off the screen.
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Hi! Love this plugin, but cannot seem to get comments to work. Wonder if I have a setting wrong (I have enable comments on pages checked) or a compatibility issue. Are you aware of any compatibility issues with WPtouch and any other plugins or settings in WP? Thanks for any help you can give. Again, love this plugin.
Martha
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BNC Design Guru
1 month, 1 week
Try checking the option to disable Ajax comments, that’ll likely fix your issue.
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Hello, sorry for my english,
but i have a question.If i have a plugin Analytics for my web version theme, if I install WPtouch i must add the code Analytics in WPtouch configuration or my plugin Analytics enough ?
