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Register Today for the WPtouch 2.0 Pro Beta
May 21 2010 • Written By The BNC Team • 27 Comments

Updated: The beta registration is now closed.

After months of hard work WPtouch 2.0 Pro is ready for some beta testing love. We’re looking for a small group of dedicated testers to help make it as solid, safe and snappy as possible. If you’re interested in joining the beta program please read below on what we’re looking for before deciding to dive in.

General Information About The Beta Program

The WPtouch 2.0 Pro beta program is for the paid version of WPtouch. Beta testers participating in the program will receive a copy of the WPtouch 2.0 beta, and gain access to a private beta forum on our Support Forums to log issues and discuss the release.

Once installed, new versions of the beta will be released through the admin panel in WordPress. When the official 2.0 release is available, testers can upgrade to it through the admin from the beta as well.

Beta testers should be aware that WPtouch 2.0 Beta 1 is incomplete. We will issue updates to the beta over the coming weeks to improve stability and complete features, and we’ll ask for new rounds of review with a list of changes for testing.

As with any beta release, we expect to see bugs and issues which (though unlikely) may affect the stability of your WordPress environment. It is not recommended to join the beta program unless you are comfortable with beta releases and feel capable of restoring software and databases associated with your WordPress setup. That said, we don’t anticipate any serious issues or concerns with the betas.

Areas Of Focus

We ask that if you are interested in a beta of WPtouch Pro that you fall into at least 1 of 3 categories:

  1. You’re interested because of the many new features, and want to try and help improve the new theme(s) it offers
  2. You’re interested in designing/developing a custom theme with the new Skeleton
  3. You’re damn good at finding bugs and testing software, and think you can help us with your awesome bug squishing abilities

Requirements

To join the WPtouch 2.0 Pro beta program, we require the following:

  1. You have or create a BNCID* (to assign the license and forum access)
  2. You have a WordPress.org self-hosted website running WordPress 2.9.x
  3. The necessary admin credentials to upload and activate plugins on your WordPress installation
  4. That’s it!

*You can register for a BNCID by clicking the ‘Register’ link in the header of this website.

For beta 1 we will only be testing on 2.9.x. WPtouch 2.0 Pro will support WordPress 2.8, 2.9, and 3.0 officially, but our focus for beta 1 is on current versions of WordPress.

The purpose of the beta program is to harden and shore-up any issues related to the working functionality of the software, so we’d kindly ask that you do not publish reviews of the WPtouch 2.0 betas as product reviews at this time.

We’d also ask that you resign yourself to being a top-secret spy and not spreading information and details about the plugin before we do, if at all possible. We’re not crazy like Apple but do appreciate solidarity!

Enough Already! Gimme A Copy!

Hold your horses! First thing’s first: there are a limited number of spaces in the beta program.

We’ll contact those who want to join on a first-come, first-serve basis. We’ll send out a welcome mail and fill you in on the details if you’re in the group. If not, don’t worry: WPtouch 2.0 Pro will be released in June, and that’s not far off!

Register for the WPtouch 2.0 Beta

Updated: The beta registration is now closed.

27 Comments

  1. anieto

    May 21st, 2010

    looking forward to it!

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      May 21st, 2010

      Awesome! Glad to have you on board.

  2. lowlight

    May 21st, 2010

    Have been waiting anxiously for this! I hope I can help make it better :)

  3. PixelRockstar

    May 21st, 2010

    OK Registered for the Beta, please please please let me test it =)

    will do my best to create something beautiful!

  4. iPhoneclub

    May 21st, 2010

    Registered :) Can’t wait to test and debug it!

  5. Dale Mugford

    BNC Design Guru

    May 21st, 2010

    Thanks everyone! It’s a long weekend here in Canada, so we’ll be shoring up a few things and will put the list together for Beta testers.

  6. josh909

    May 21st, 2010

    Fingers crossed.

  7. joshreeder

    May 22nd, 2010

    i am ready to input — as a photographer im very interested in giving my 2 cents as there is no easy way to transition photo galleries to a perfect iphone experience outside of their photo viewer, hopefully this will rememdy that or at least allow you to use mobile theme only plugins… anyone know of a web based iphone friendly full screen “flick through” style photo viewer?

  8. amanzi

    May 22nd, 2010

    Just registered as well. Really looking forward to seeing what this can do!
    Thanks.

  9. macgeek

    May 22nd, 2010

    cannot wait to create themes for this :)

  10. kazu

    May 23rd, 2010

    Not Wait!
    I want to many themes