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WPtouch Pro 2.1 with iPad Support: Now Available!
Jan 4 2011 • Written By The BNC Team • 43 Comments

WPtouch Pro on iPad - Landscape View

Another Giant Leap Forward for WordPress

WPtouch ProTM has gained worldwide attention providing unique, rich and beautiful mobile experiences for website visitors on touch-based smart phones.

With WPtouch Pro 2.1, that great experience has been redefined and brought to the iPadTM, with a user-interface tailored for the iPad experience.

Nowhere else can you find the sophistication, tremendous usability and feature-set for working with iPad and WordPress websites.

Since WPtouch Pro on iPad is a part of WPtouch Pro 2.1 (starting at only $49), you get incredible value, great features, product support & future upgrades— all at an extremely competitive, affordable price.

WPtouch Pro on iPad - Portrait View

Native layout, effects & animations together with a familiar look and feel on iPad ensure visitors to your website instantly know how to navigate and access content and participate in discussions.

Tap, Touch & Slide

The first thing you’ll notice when using WPtouch on iPad is the incredible responsiveness, speed and native feel. It really does make your website feel like a native application on iPad. And because it does all this visitors feel instantly familiar, comfortable and pleased to browse and enjoy your website.

A Focus On What’s Important

We’ve looked at the things people want most out of an iPad browsing experience with a WordPress website, and worked for months to do our best and deliver them all:

  • Fast webpage load times
  • Browse and navigate things like blog content, pages, and menus quickly and easily
  • Have access to Search, Contact and Message features in convenient ways
  • Save and share content on popular social networking services
  • Be able to comment and reply quickly and easily in website discussions

Website Owners

And we’ve also looked at what website owners & administrators want and need out of iPad support.

Because WPtouch Pro on iPad works with the WPtouch Pro you know and love, it saves considerable time and worry in setting up and administrating its presentation.

With WPtouch Pro 2.1, you can serve a rich, powerful smartphone mobile experience plus a fantastic iPad experience at the same time, quickly, easily and efficiently.

Discussion Is A Joy

Comment discussion in WPtouch Pro 2.1 on iPad is simply a joy. It’s incredibly easy for visitors to leave comments and replies to other comments with our fly-in comment form. And since comments are posted and added in real-time, discussion is immediate, fast and simple for visitors.

We Belong Together

WPtouch Pro on iPad works seamlessly with your WPtouch Pro mobile theme. When you configure options for your mobile theme which make sense to share with your iPad theme, WPtouch Pro intelligently serves those same options on iPad.

Settings like: menus, pages, icons, backgrounds, font faces, thumbnails, advertising, Web-App Mode & more are all handled automatically on iPad effortlessly.

What a Good Child Theme!

WPtouch Pro 2.1 also supports child themes out-of-the-box.

It’s easy to customize your WPtouch Pro mobile and iPad experiences even further at the theme level, non-destructively. Whether you’re tweaking things on your site or producing a great experience for clients, WPtouch Pro 2.1 has you covered.

Copying as a child theme is just a click away in the admin panel, and you’re ready to starty customizing the look and feel of WPtouch Pro’s mobile and iPad themes easily.

The “One More Thing”:
Also with Web-App Mode Support

Use the new iPad support in our themes to offer a rich, friendly web experience for your iPad visitors, including harnessing our unique Web-App Mode feature which allows visitors to save your site to their iPad home screen and launch it in full-screen application mode, without mobile Safari.

And just like WPtouch Pro’s Web-App Mode on iPhone and iPod touch, you can choose a custom loading image in full 1024×768, set the status bar color and enable things like multitasking persistence (WPtouch Pro remembers what the visitor last viewed on your site).

Available Now

WPtouch Pro 2.1 is available now, and is acfree update for all existing customers.

Interview

Dale Mugford, co-founder of BraveNewCode recently sat down with Wayne MacPhail, Canadian journalist and professor to discuss the 2.1 update.

43 Comments

  1. maguay

    http://techinch.com/

    January 4th, 2011

    Awesome, congrats on shipping! My site’s already upgraded :)

  2. Ciro

    January 4th, 2011

    Cool, but we need to ads support like iPhone mode.

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      January 4th, 2011

      Both Adsense and Admob don’t currently work on iPad. We will add custom ads support in a future update. It was a massive effort to get things where they are.

      • Fausto

        http://www.feastoffun.com

        January 10th, 2011

        How is support for podcasting with podpress? Would be awesome to have it work like the NPR app! (Large play bar, playlists, etc.)

        Congratulations on the update! Is there a list somewhere for developers to help users configure the CSS and thumbnails(featured images)?

        Thanks!

  3. James

    http://chikorita157.com

    January 4th, 2011

    Finally updated to WPtouch 2.1 from the 2.1RC builds and it looks great on my iPhone 3GS and the iPad. However, Webapp mode slightly buggy when loading a post unless you load a different page (may be with a plugin conflict)… otherwise it works fine.

    Good work! :)

  4. Tomhodgins

    http://tommyhodgins.com

    January 4th, 2011

    This is pretty slick, posting this from the iPad right now
    and it’s pretty enjoyable to use. Cant wait to see more gesture
    support or what you guys have planned for the popovers in the
    future! Keep up the great work this has to be one of my favorite
    WordPress plugins and the moment I get my portfolio site up as
    WordPress I’m buying a license for pro!

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      January 4th, 2011

      Thanks! Lots of good things planned ;)

  5. Paul O'Brien

    http://seobrien.com

    January 5th, 2011

    Brilliant update! Thanks
    Not to be too pushy but… what’s next? :)

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      January 5th, 2011

      Haha! Thanks Brian! Well, 2.2 is a performance, maintenance release, and after that you’ll see some very cool new themes/child themes that have been in the works!

      • jesperhessius

        January 5th, 2011

        Do you have a timeframe for future releases? Just updated
        btw, works great!

        • Dale Mugford

          BNC Design Guru

          January 6th, 2011

          Throughout 2011 you’ll see updates for 2.2,2.3 etc.

  6. dertuxman

    January 5th, 2011

    Updating worked flawlessly. Now I wish I had some tablet PC
    to check what’s going on. :-) Looking forward to any further
    development, thank you for your work so far…

  7. Tony

    http://hacksocialmedia.com

    January 6th, 2011

    Child themes?! Since when was that feature available? Is it only for the paid version?

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      January 6th, 2011

      We’ve talked abut Child Themes support for 2.1 for a little while now, since the beta for 2.1 was released. Yes, it’s only in WPtouch Pro at the moment.

  8. iPhomania

    http://iphomania.de

    January 6th, 2011

    Great new features. I’m currently updating but it took
    already 5 minutes and still not finished. Normal? Thanks.

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      January 6th, 2011

      No- you should try the update again, but you’ll likely have to FTP to the upgrade dir inside wp-content and remove the unfinished update.

  9. Pfau

    http://www.tip4mac.com

    January 8th, 2011

    Hi there, I’ve got a problem here.

    I don’t know if the problem came from my settings so I need to ask. I enabled iPad support for the site on WP Touch Pro 2.1, the home seems fine, but nothing displayed when viewing posts/pages, only the header/background shows up. Is there anything wrong with my plugin? Or is there anything I should do to make it work?

    BTW, when clicking on ‘Blog’ and ‘Menu’ button on the iPad view, if you don’t close the previously clicked one, two lists will show at the same time, while ‘Blog’ is covered by ‘Menu’. Hope this is not my fault and will be fixed soon.

    Thx

    • Duane Storey

      BNC Development Guru

      January 8th, 2011

      Hi, sorry you’re having problems. If you post in the WPtouch Pro support forums we’d be happy to assist you there – http://www.BraveNewCode.com/support.

      • Pfau

        http://www.tip4mac.com

        January 8th, 2011

        Hi, I’m sorry that I’m not the person who bought WP Touch Pro. I’m just one of the site admins. So if posting in the support forum is the only way, I’ll ask the purchaser to get the post done ASAP.

        On the other hand, I also wish to have the problem solved as quickly as possible. So is there an alternative solution? #Update 1: I checked sites made by users who commented on this post, found that their site is at good condition. One guess: is it because our site uses Chinese as primary language? The title, header, menus are displayed in the same way, only without content.

        Thank you.

        • Duane Storey

          BNC Development Guru

          January 8th, 2011

          Yes, please post in the forums and our support team will be happy to help you out there in a timely manner. We ask people to use the forums so we can associate all requests with actual WPtouch Pro user accounts and also have a system in place where we can make sure people’s issues get tracked properly. Thanks.

          • Mike

            January 9th, 2011

            Keep in mind that it is still the weekend, and so you may not see any movement on support until Monday. Just a thought.

            • Duane Storey

              BNC Development Guru

              January 9th, 2011

              Yes, the support forums are open Monday to Friday during regular business hours. So any issues on the weekend are typically addressed on Monday.

  10. jameswoodcock

    http://www.jameswoodcock.co.uk

    January 11th, 2011

    I am really enjoying the features of WPtouch Pro 2.1 and the support is fantastic.

    • Duane Storey

      BNC Development Guru

      January 11th, 2011

      Great, thanks James!

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