WPtouch 1.7.5: New Features & Fixes

by Dale Mugford ~ Feb 16 / 2009
16 Comments

If you’ve downloaded 1.7-1.7.4, please update to 1.7.5 to fix the issues identified post-release.

First of all, a big thanks to everyone who posted in the comments, left us tweets and mailed in to report on the state of WPtouch 1.6 and the kinds of bugs they experienced & features they’d like to see— your feedback is invaluable to us.

We’re driving hard toward the big 2.0 release, which will see some remarkable changes, including (finally) localization for international users and themes. WPtouch 2.0 will ship with 3 default themes to choose from, to further customize your site’s appearance on the iPhone, iPod touch, Android and soon, Blackberry Storm.

We’ll also be adding a small documentation guide for aspiring designers and developers to work on their own WPtouch themes, which we’ll index and provide for download for free on the website. To stimulate some growth here, we’ll be having a contest with some good prizes for those who create some stellar themes. It’ll be a great time for WPtouch users the world over.

WPtouch 1.7.5

We considered issuing a small maintenance release to fix a couple of missed bugs with 1.6, but instead decided to hold off as they weren’t widespread and turn our focus to continuing to add features alongside solving pesky issues.

Below is the complete changelog for 1.7.5:

  • Added option to do GZIP compression
  • Added ability to choose if WPtouch or regular version of your site is shown first
  • Fixed WP login/out button bugs
  • Added login/out auto-detect for WP 2.7 or pre-WP 2.7 sites
  • Fixed loading path issue that caused drop-down menu button to fail
  • Added choice between alphabetical or page order sorting of the drop down menu
  • Added clock icon
  • Minor admin fixes & changes (+ better Mozilla browser support)
  • Fixes for categories drop-down menu (now shows post #’s)
  • Automatic detection & support for Peter’s anti-spam plugin
  • Built-in support for Adsense in posts
  • Moved Stats tracking box beside Advertising Options
  • Better WordPress version support detection
  • More refined image auto-sizing with WP added images & galleries in posts / pages
  • Fix for WordPress shortcodes appearing in excerpts
  • Changed how WPtouch shows switch links
  • Auto-adjusting width/height for MobileSafari plugin objects (YouTube, Quicktime)
  • 1.7.1: Fixed re-direct bug when viewing default theme from mobile device
  • 1.7.2: Fixed missing Android support
  • 1.7.3: Fixed broken login link on some installations
  • 1.7.4: Fixed a warning that occurred when multiple gzip handlers were enabled

Download

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?

We’re working on better Android support, built-in tie-in with WordTwit & twitter, localization, themes & more. Stay tuned.

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16 Comments

  1. Thank you again for this wonderful app. Perhaps you should limit the signs in the header title text because the top menu will be invisible on the grey striped background.
    But – great work!!

  2. Just to mention that I would be happy to help with translation of WPtouch to Mandarin Chinese and French – setting up a WPtouch project on Launchpad would probably make things a lot easier for translators and would make the localization process a much smoother ride.

  3. Piggy and Tazzy

    1 year, 5 months

    This is just fabulous. It’s stuff like this that sets WordPress and it’s contributors/developers apart from the rest.

    Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

    I’ve already had some great feedback from readers of my blog that are using iPhone and Touch. Each and every one of them saying that it’s just fantastic.

    Great work guys!

  4. Dale Mugford

    BNC Design Guru

    1 year, 5 months

    @Petra: That’s one of the downsides of using the transparent images with the customizable bar- but it used to be static so I think it’s better than nothing :)

    @Jonathan: Thanks Jon! We’ll definitely set something up when the time comes so we can get everyone working together to get it done smoothly.

  5. C.M.

    1 year, 5 months

    Anything new about using it along with Wp-Super Cache?
    For some reason rewrite conditions stopped working with the 1.5 version…

    I’m going to upgrade and see if there’s some differences…

  6. There seems to be a limit of 15 “pages” in the pages list. More than that makes the pages at the top disappear from the list… True?

  7. What is my AdSense ID?

  8. Thank you, Dale!

  9. Dragon

    http://NetManiac.com

    1 year, 5 months

    I just wanted to thank you folks, not only for this wonderful theme, but also for constantly fixing, maintaining, and improving it. I just about plotzed when I saw the new AdSense code! Thanks so much!

  10. Awesome work again on a miracle plug-in: I can’t believe it actually works, and so well!

    And thanks for the heads-up on saving images and prefs.

    Would love dashboard control over typography. Studies show justified text is more difficult to read than flush left, and I’d like my text and line height closer to the New York Times and Fox News iPhone sites, two of the best-designed IMHO. Been experimenting with your style.css but have yet to figure it all out.

    Cheers from a fan!

  11. I’m still seeing shortcodes from the plugin Templatedia showing up in the excerpts on my WPtouch home page? Was this supposed to be corrected with:

    - Fix for WordPress shortcodes appearing in excerpts

    ??

  12. I love your plugin but need help with a bug i seem to be running into…..

    I go and configure my WPtouch setting and click save at the bottom…. i then get redirected to my general settings and when i return to WPtouch settings page… no change were saved. Great app but stuck on default settings since settings won’t save.

    Any ideas?

    thanks again

    Chad

  13. Matt Cheney

    http://alt-mba.com

    1 year, 5 months

    Wow, this is an amazing plugin, with an even smarter options page. I am blown away!

    Thanks for taking the time to develop this and distribute it for free.

  14. Dale Mugford

    BNC Design Guru

    1 year, 5 months

    @Pitchers Hit Eighth: It only fixes WordPress native shortcodes- there’s no way for us to cover all the shortcodes out there- but we’ll look into an easy way to add the ones you use to get filtered.

    @Chad: Check the WPtouch thread for information regarding your issue.

    @Matt Cheney: Thanks!

  15. LoupLoup

    1 year, 5 months

    I use PLUxml.org blog/CMS plateform and the excellent Mobile Plugin developped by http://www.aktiq.fr and let me tell you that everything is very fine with iPhone and Android phones. I can now blog on the way to work or vacation… This a 5 minutes totale installation (blog + plugin) and very custommizable.


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