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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. Woody Carr

    http://woodycarr.com

    January 29th, 2011

    Your WordPress Plugins are first class. I’ll be adding the newest version to my sites next week. One thing I noticed on the iPad version of your site is the “About Us” link only opens or closes the accordion. I can’t get to your “About Us” page. Is that bug or user error?

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      February 1st, 2011

      Thanks!

      That’s a setting in WPtouch Pro- you can have parent pages show as links or not— that’s just what we setup for the site, but it’s customizable.

  2. larrydickinson

    January 30th, 2011

    I’d like to update to the latest version but for some reason then I try to upgrade WordPress gives me an error saying it can’t create public_html. I went in and created one myself but that still didn’t work. I even downloaded the new version from your site and uploaded it by ftp to my site. It still shows up as version 2.08. I thought if I overwrote the old version it would show up as the new one but I guess not. How the heck can I upgrade to the new version? Any help would be appreciated. Please reply to lairbear@gmail.com
    Thanks

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      February 1st, 2011

      Hi, can you post this support request in our forums? That way everyone can benefit from the discussion.

  3. Glenn

    http://om4.com.au

    February 7th, 2011

    Seriously smooth iPad interface guys, congratulations.

    • Duane Storey

      BNC Development Guru

      February 7th, 2011

      Thanks Glenn! Enjoy!

  4. Match Rate Plus

    http://www.mrpaffiliates.com

    February 13th, 2011

    I read about WPtouch and did not see how the mobile sitemap is being created. Is a mobile sitemap created by WPtouch?

    How is Googlebot-mobile managed with the varying themes that get presented based on the vaious user mobile device?

    How well are WPtouch templates designed related to on-site SEO?

    Also, how does WPtouch manage WAP mobile phones versus smartphones? Do WAP devices receive a different theme that is simple as compared to the Ipad theme?

    I am not sure if WPtouch addresses all mobile devices from WAP devices to the Ipad and would appreciate a more detailed response.

    Thanks,
    Brian

    • Duane Storey

      BNC Development Guru

      February 13th, 2011

      1) No, WPtouch Pro doesn’t create a mobile sitemap.
      2) While WPtouch Pro has a lot of bells and whistles, fundamentally it’s a series of WordPress themes that are geared towards higher-end mobile devices. It uses the same title tags as the normal WordPress installation, and the same content. So other than a well designed theme, there is nothing special WPtouch Pro does for SEO.
      3) WPtouch Pro isn’t targeted towards WAP devices – they will see what they normally see when a visitor visits the site. It’s targeted towards higher end smartphones such as the iPod, iPhone, Blackberry Storm, Android and the iPad.

      • Brian

        http://YourWebsiteURL

        February 17th, 2011

        Are the different mobile pages that are served to each mobile device STATIC pages on the server, or are they dynamic pages from the original wp site pages?

        I am trying to determine if WPtouch creates MOBILE COMPLIANT pages that the mobile bots will crawl and index.

        • Dale Mugford

          BNC Design Guru

          February 17th, 2011

          WPtouch creates dynamic pages, just like regular WordPress pages. It essentially “takes over” and shows its theme when a supported mobile device makes a request for a page or post.

  5. Ken Schultz

    http://digitalphotocentral.com/

    February 28th, 2011

    Hi Guys

    I tried your free version and found that videos on my posts did not play (payed badly on Android and Not at all on iTouch). i’m using Easyvideo Player 2 to embed videos – maybe that’s the problem.

    I’m interested in buying the WPtouch Pro if that fixes the issues. Or do you have another suggestion for video post on a mobile platform?

    Looks great otherwise.
    Thanks
    ken

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      March 8th, 2011

      If the player is flash based then it won’t work because the devices themselves won’t support it. Most mobile devices support h.264 video, and video served through the html5 video tag.

  6. Hari

    http://itsmehari.com

    March 1st, 2011

    I have a quick question. Is it possible to have the mobile theme just for one category in a blog ??

    Ex. The main site will remain the same as it is, without WPtouch pro working on it.
    but, it will work when someone clicks on the Blog which is a category in the site.

    If that feature is not out of the box, will i be able to modify any code to make it work that way ?

    Thanks in advance.

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      March 8th, 2011

      It’s possible I guess, but not a feature currently out of the box on WPtouch or WPtouch Pro.

  7. Jason

    http://www.wpinsite.com

    March 18th, 2011

    What a fantastic app, integrates into WordPress so easily, well done.

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      March 22nd, 2011

      Thanks Jason!!

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