WPtouch 1.9.8 Released

by Dale Mugford ~ Feb 08 / 2010
43 Comments

We pumped out a bug fix and maintenance release this morning February 8th which aimed to fix a couple of nagging issues facing some of our users. Considering the breadth with which WPtouch is installed and used, it’s no wonder there’s a couple issues.

Even if you’re not having any trouble you should update anyways, no harm done in doing so.

Issues covered in this release are:

  • Fixed an undefined function error
  • Stopped GigPress CSS from loading in the header when it’s not enabled
  • Fixed error where Icon Upload would fail in admin
  • Updated Ajax Upload script to v3.9

43 Comments

  1. A nice plugin, but why didn’t you use a language file to change all words and comments in other foreign languages?
    When you have a separate language file, it is easy to update from one version to the next.

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      1 month Reply

      We’re currently rewriting the plugin top to bottom and didn’t want to bother translators with double duty.

  2. Hi, Just upgraded the plugin. I have an error on the iPhone Safari showing – Fatal error: Cannot create references to/from string offsets nor overloaded objects in/homepages/31/dxxxxxxxx/htdocs/bokeh/wp-content/plugins/WordTwit/xml.php on line 76

    • Just to clear up my first comment, BNC came out with a fix to my (and I’m sure a few others) problem within hours and all is working great! Love the WPtouch plugin.

  3. Hello,

    file: WPtouch.php
    function: bnc_WPtouch_get_user_agents()

    $useragents = array

    add “opera mobi” for opera mobile ;)

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      1 month Reply

      You can add whatever user agents you like in the custom user agents settings area. We only officially support the default ones.

  4. PLEASE!!!!! Can someone over here help me? I love WPtouch, but I cannot get comments to work. They are enabled in my dashboard for every page. There is a reference to “skip to comments” in the mobile theme on each post. But there is no way to access comments or make a comment in the mobile theme. What could be wrong? Has anyone else had this problem? I would put this in Support, but you don’t seem to have a support link.

    Martha

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      1 month Reply

      Are you using intense debate for comments? If so we have limited and in some cases no way to support it at this time.

  5. Is there a way to force the plugin to always use the default homepage for the plugin itself? We will sometimes switch between latest posts and a particular page on the homepage of Spacevidcast.com (for live video we’ll use a live page, for on-demand we’ll use the default wordpress).

    Is there any way to force WPtouch to ignore what page is used for the homepage and always show latest posts? Even a hack of sorts?

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      1 month Reply

      You can choose WPtouch’s homepage in the WPtouch settings. Simply choose the page your blog is assigned to and WPtouch will use that as its homepage instead of your WordPress settings.

      • Right, but I want to do the opposite of that. I am trying to get WPtouch to display all the latest posts while the Wordpress blog itself is displaying a specific page. When Wordpress is displaying all posts (not a specific page) WPtouch works as I want, but when we have a special event and put up a page as the index, WPtouch does the same thing and shows nothing rather than our latest posts.

        Is there a way to trick WPtouch in to always thinking it should just display the latest posts and ignoring what page is posted on my Wordpress blog?

  6. Hi
    For some reason my pages don’t appear – they seem to enabled in settings but don’t appear when viewed on an iPod Touch. Any suggestions as to why?
    Thanks
    Matt

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      1 month Reply

      What pages aren’t showing? I’m looking at your site right now and everything looks fine. You’ll have to explain further.

  7. I’m wondering if this is a known bug or if I’m doing something wrong myself.

    Try going to my site: http://www.manymanymoments.com and then click on the entry that says “Jaelin and Dave – South florida wedding in Aspen Colorado”

    Let the post load.

    Notice that quite a few photos are not loading and display a question mark instead.

    The images work just fine when browsing with a regular computer, and they even look fine when setting firefox’s user agent to Iphone 3.0 … but on the iphone (and ipod touch) some of the images don’t show.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks!

    BTW… not sure when this started… I noticed it with 1.9.7 and it persists with 1.9.8 … not sure if it was there before, though it could… some blog posts are totally unaffected.

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      1 month Reply

      It could just be that you’re hitting the memory limit for loading that page. iPhone OS has a limit, can’t remember off hand what it is though, for size and time with webpages.

      • Dale,

        thank you for your answer. I chatted about this with some other photographers and found out that you are most likely correct as this is NOT limited to your plugin. I simply never even tried browsing my blog without the plugin.

        Anyway… I found a solution which also improves performance (significantly) and reduce bandwidth for visitors and I was wondering if you would consider implementing this (or a better version of this) in a future release.

        I added the following code to the end of your functions.php in the themes/default folder:

        =====================================================
        function MobileImages($content) {
        $content=str_ireplace(‘/images/full/’,'/images/mobile/’,$content);
        return $content;
        }

        add_filter(‘the_content’,'MobileImages’);
        ======================================================

        I then put full size images in a bla/bla/bla/images/full/ folder
        and the smaller iphone sized ones in bla/bla/bla/images/mobile/ folder

        works like a charm and only affects posts where I’ve done the special /images/full/ folder thing.

  8. Love the plugin so far. I like the “Enable WPtouch exclusive mode” option but I wish I could choose which plugins to enable for the mobile users. This possible in a future update?

    Main reason, I enabled a spoiler plugin. Now mobile users can’t see the spoiler text/images at all. Unless they switch to the regular non-mobile view.

  9. Hi there,

    thanks for the nice plugin. Support forum is down, so I’d like to report a non-compatibility with the Polyglot Plugin for multilingual blogs (http://fredfred.net/skriker/index.php/polyglot/).

    Polyglot still is the #1 plugin for multilingual WPs…

    Could you maybe just add the Polyglot filters to be used by your plugin?

    Thanks,
    Torben

  10. How come my thumbnails won’t show up? I am using Wordpress 2.9.2 and I am using the “Post Thumbnils” option.

  11. I have 2 sites hosted by dreamhost each on the same server but installed to different locations. each has it’s own WP blog. I have installed WPtouch on both and for a short time they both worked now one works and the other doesn’t. (BTW these are new so they have no real content…)

    georgemadison.com
    scottgoldcity.com

    The first seems to work fine. but the second shows only the desktop site. It has the switch to mobile button at the bottom of the page but it doesn’t change it. Help…

  12. There is a little blue block in the footer to the left of the “Powered by” language as if a flash object is on the page? I don’t have flash on the site. Is this something that WPtouch is creating?

  13. Sure did NOT work for me. I get: “Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string…..” when browsing to site with my IPhone.

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      3 weeks, 2 days Reply

      The file causing the error is in wp-includes/general-template.php.

      That’s not our file. Try deactivating other plugins one by one and see if the error gets resolved. It could be another plugin.

  14. Could you maybe let the “Mail” field in the comments default to the Email keyboard layout on the iPhone? This is quite simple to do and would improve usability…

    Please see this post for details:
    http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1721-Default-To-The-Numeric-Email-And-URL-Keyboards-On-The-iPhone.htm

  15. I love your plugin WPtouch. However I was wondering if later you could make support for custom fields which hold videos. My site is a video site and the theme we use requires us to enter the embed code through the use of custom fields. on WPtouch they do not show up. I wanted to know if you could enable support for that.

  16. Thanks for the awesome app and upgrades. I tested my site against some other news sites. CNN is faster by about 2-4 seconds for 3G access. We’re averaging 7-10 seconds a page, using dates not thumbnails.

    We beat Washington Post, CBC, and CBS. Very impressive.

    Any chance you are working on larger fonts when the phone is turned horizontal. Age challenged people find the font small. CNN and Washington Post have that small/turn larger font feature.

    Thanks again.

  17. Hi, thanks for the plugin.
    I have main domain http://vencanice.eu
    and mobile domain http://vencanice.mobi
    Now I Like to always show the WPtouch theme regardless of the browser when someone use the url http://vencanice.mobi/

  18. Thanks

    But
    Bug with WPtouch with 1.9.x and 0.5.2 Php Speedy Wp: no access to menu (mail, search, rss ,…)

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      2 weeks, 5 days Reply

      Speedy probably intercepts the JavaScript and breaks it. Contact the developer of that plugin and let him know.

  19. John Taggart

    2 weeks, 6 days Reply

    Hey Guys, Great plugin!! I love it. I do have one question. I currently run with The “Fixed Social Buttons” plugin as well. Is there any way to disable the “fixed social buttons” in the WPtouch interface? I’d rather only see the buttons on the non-mobile theme. I know it’s not your responsibility to support other plugins, but I’ve got to try right?
    Plugin info: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fixed-social-buttons/

  20. Dave

    2 weeks, 3 days Reply

    I’m having issues uploading the custom-icons. It says that it will create the folder for me, but I get:
    There seems to have been an error.
    Please try your upload again.
    The text says “If an upload fails (usually it’s a permission problem) create the folder yourself using FTP and try again.”. Where does it WANT the folder to be, so I can create it myself and fix the permissions?

  21. Fantastic job on the plugin.
    Question about adsense. Iphone users see the google ad nicely. But even though I’ve added several series s60 compatabilities the Nokia E71 does not show adsense. It would be nice if all phones, such as E71, could show the ads just as the iphone does. Any suggestions?
    Any reason why other phones which you add to the list of supported devices would not show adsense? You can see where the space has been created for these ads, but no adds. Again, no such problem using the Iphone.

    Thanks,

    Best regards.

  22. WPtouch rocks! So nice, so easy.

    Is there a way to add a bit of text in the header area? Or have the menu/tags/categories drop down be automatically exposed when the page is loaded?

    Our site is based around pages, but we use posts for our blog, to discuss our products, and to format the home page. That said, when people visit our site using WPtouch it isn’t obvious that links to our pages are in the drop down.

    So, we would like to be able to make it obvious that the items in the drop down exists. We would be happy to have either text that we can edit to state something like ‘Blog Posts. Tap the Arrow for the Menu’ or have the menu exposed when the page is loaded.

    Thanks, Hal

  23. The site is not yet public.
    From my iPhone (3.1.2) all is working fine except a little thing.
    On the post list item, if you click on the “expand button” on the right, it shows snippets of include javascript code for sime object (for example the “share” button script).
    If you click on the post item title it shows the full posts and all javascripted object correctly rendered.
    Can be fixed ?

  24. Im using the WPtouch and wordpress 2.9 but the “post thumbnail” version wont work??? im getting the default camera icons on all the posts instead of the post image.

    take a look (via the iphone): http://dailyiphoneblog.com

    does anyone why this wont work?

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