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WPtouch 1.9 Beta 9 “Pushed Out”
Aug 5 2009 • Written By Dale Mugford • 18 Comments

Some pretty big additions have been added to the latest beta, and all around things are shaping up nicely, so this will be the last beta before the 1.9 release, which is imminent.

Please test the newest features (listed below), and provide some feedback in the Support Forums. No more features will be added for the 1.9 release (besides Skins being turned on).

Here’s the short list of notable changes for Beta 9:

Theme:

  • Style declaration for closed comments added
  • Filter for trackbacks and pingbacks from display in comment counts
  • Custom post page nav links now check if next/prev post exists before showing arrow
  • Added friendly ‘noscript’ display bezel for users with javascript Turned off
  • Fixed an issue where WP Spam Free users may have had new comments blocked
  • Added Prowl Push notifications direct messages submenu item (if enabled)


Admin:

  • Fully compatible with WordPress 2.8.2
  • Added ability to exclude categories
  • Added Prowl Push notifications for comments, user registrations, and direct messages
  • Turned on skin selection support, still no skins enabled yet
  • Plugin compatibility listing now loads from bravenewcode.com for an always
    up-to-date listing of plugin compatibility and conflicts


*NOTE
The beta requires WordPress 2.6 or newer.
We are ending support for older, insecure versions of WordPress. Please do not attempt to install or use this beta if you’re not 100% kosher with that : )

**DOWNLOAD:
As with all beta releases for WPtouch, you can download WPtouch beta 9 from the WPtouch admin, and are required to install it via FTP only.

If you’re not currently using any of the betas, you can download it form the link below:

DOWNLOAD WPtouch 1.9 Beta 9 (Latest)

This update (and all others in the betas) is smaller than the final release will be. I’ve temporarily removed non-plugin files (like all the screenshots) which the WordPress repository needs but are not needed to run the plugin. This should help with people upgrading throughout the beta series.

Cheers everyone, and thanks for being patient with us, and helping us improve on WPtouch!

18 Comments

  1. Pete

    August 6th, 2009

    I can’t wait for the final, good job!

    A little bug: If I post a comment the popup with ‘comment added’ cames but the number of the comments is the same as before but the new comment is included in the list.

  2. Dale Mugford

    BNC Design Guru

    August 6th, 2009

    It’s not a bug- when Ajax is used to post a comment, that number won’t be updated to reflect the addition until a refresh. The number is calculated in php on page load. It’s always been like that.

  3. Mark Wegner

    August 6th, 2009

    Is there a way to add new useragents that will trigger WPtouch from the admin interface?

  4. Dale Mugford

    BNC Design Guru

    August 6th, 2009

    @Mark: no. We control the user agents because the plugin is only designed for the iPhone, iPod touch, and Android devices, with limited support orm the blackberry storm.

  5. Mark Wegner

    August 6th, 2009

    @Dale Mugford: Ah, I see. I was thinking it would be helpful for displaying a simplified interface for non-touch browsers on older phones.

  6. Mercator

    August 6th, 2009

    Hello,

    Nice work! Push works really well. Two comments:
    - There seems to be no verification if an email address is valid, ie it is not checked if the string entered contains at least a “@”
    - I run more than one WP site. It would be great if the Message started with the name of the site the message is coming from instead of “WPtouch…”.
    - If I could choose, I would have liked to disable displaying the user’s IP in the Prowl message and add some more of the actual message instead.

    Again, great work – THANKS A LOT!

    Regards,
    Mercator

  7. Dale Mugford

    BNC Design Guru

    August 7th, 2009

    Thanks Mercator- we were trying to get the rudimentary aspects working with push, and we’ll most certainly polish and add to it over time.

  8. Boesky

    August 7th, 2009

    First of all
    great work. But would it be possible that the font size auto increase in landscape modus?
    I use an ipod touch and it’s quite difficult to read the blog entrys. At least one would expext that in landscape mode the font size would be bigger.

  9. Pete

    August 9th, 2009

    I found another. I deactivate the Push Noti. for comments and trackbacks. But I get Push Noti. still.

  10. Pete

    August 9th, 2009

    Sry, I forget it. Can you add the URL to the trackback/comment, for example at the end of the comment?

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