WPtouch 1.9.23 has been released, and it includes an important security update, 1 new feature and some fixes.
Here’s the changelog:

• Fixed: IMPORTANT security issue with AJAX icon upload
• Fixed: Issue with excluded categories not working
• Added: Ability to exclude tags by ID from blog (experimental)
• Added: Now filter the excluded categories and tags from the header listings
• Changed: Now removing the admin bar when logged in and looking at WPtouch (will still show for regular theme)

*Translators: please re-submit translations with updated strings (esp. for excluded tags area).

Earth Hour Plugin Update

Earth Hour 1.5 has also been released, it includes:

• New option to disable the banner bar
• Reduces the server check we do from every hour to once per day

• Fixed: Issue which could cause the loading image not to show
• Fixed: Various items in manage licenses area
• Added: Piggy Twitter link in admin
• Added: Swedish translation
• Removed: DEBUG statements from BNC API

Piggy 1.0.1 is a recommended update for all customers.

• An issue with page menus on some installations
• An issue with WordPress 3.1 that prevents the admin bar from showing on desktop themes.

WPtouch Pro 2.1.4 is a recommended update for all customers.

This is update is recommended for all users.

Changelog

• Fixes admin panel not working or broken for some users
• Changed admin panel RSS feeds to use AJAX
• Added function_exists and object checks to admin RSS
• Changed Tweet RSS Feed to Support Forum Topics
• Fixed minor page menu CSS issue
• Included 40% reduction in PNG sizes thanks to BNCID user 13xforever

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

Version 1.9.4.1

Version 1.9.4

• Fix for re-direct issues introduced with 1.9.3.4
• Fixes and changes for Adsense appearance
• Fix for direct messages not working with WPtouch exclusive mode
• Added spam check for Push direct messages via a nonce
• Added verification for Prowl API key
• Added ability to define custom user agents in the admin (go nuts!)
• Minor admin styling changes
• Dropped official support for WP 2.6 (sorry folks, you should update!)
• Dropped ‘skins’ references, they’ll be a part of WPtouch 2.0
• Compressed style.css in theme for faster load times
• Removed unused files

The update is available for download or from within the WordPress admin.

WPtouch 1.9.3 was also released, and brings with it a new feature and several bug fixes as well.

In 1.9.3 you can now choose to disable Ajax comments as the default method for commenting. We think Ajax comments are great (especially on a mobile device), but they bring with them some issues, and don’t always work right on every install or with every other plugin, so we’ve added this feature as a failsafe for those who’ve been reporting issues.

Other bugs were fixed pertaining to stability and javascript, the admin, and more.

We wanted to get some of the lingering issues resolved before completing and releasing the Skins features, as well as languages support, both of which we feel we’re in the clear to add so look for those to come over the next little while.

As always you can leave feedback about any of our free, open-source WordPress plugins in our Support Forums.

Below is a list of issued resolved in the last few updates, so if you’ve been having any of the below issues please upgrade and test again, then report lingering issues or new concerns in our Support Forums.

• Fixed issue where mobile switch to regular theme was always zoomed in and required refresh
• Fixed issue where pages changed from published to unpublished still showed in the WPtouch menu
• Fixed issue where ‘Load More Entries’ caused blank page or other issues. WPtouch now detect possible issues and defaults to pagination
• WPtouch now loads minified versions of its CSS and JS for the theme, speeding up load times
• Added check for wp-load.php before attempting ajax comments. Should fix WP comment posting issues. Working on better Disqus and Intense Debate support as well
• Removed ‘Find in this page’ button, until bugs are resolved
• Now WPtouch will not hide mobileSafari addressbar on single post pages, for readers on slower connections (page won’t awkwardly bump them to the top when reading an article)
• Fixed bug where WPtouch admin would report that CURL wasn’t installed even if it was
• Fixed bug for admin panel Ajax not working in some situations
• Adsense re-enabled
• Fixed bug where SPAM comments were pushed via Prowl
• Push Notification options now announces if Curl is not available, instead of not appearing at all
• Removed text-size adjust option, now replaced with user-adjustable font size on post page
• Minor code corrections

The update is recommended for all users. Please visit the WPtouch homepage for install and setup instructions, or visit the Support Forums for tips, tricks, and support from fellow WPtouch users and BraveNewCode staff.

Below is the complete changelog for 1.8.8 1.8.9 1.8.9.1:

• Fixed refresh issue (some pages keep re-loading)
• Fixed mkdir issue on PHP4 installations
• Set viewport to fixed width for device to prevent some sites from loading wide
• Minor revisions to new CSS calendar icon styling
• Added exclusive mode feature to help in situations where other plugins are incompatible, load too many scripts/css files and both break and slow down WPtouch
• Added Fancybox for some feature descriptions in the admin

As always you can upgrade through the WordPress admin if you’re running a current version of WordPress, or download and install the update via FTP otherwise. In either case, your settings & custom icons will remain the same.

Here’s a rundown of the final changelog:

• Changed calendar icons from images to CSS-based only (they look sexay!)
• Refined styling of header logo, text shadow, general appearance
• Removed unneeded declarations from the WPtouch stylesheet
• Tested and works efficiently with WordPress MU when installed site-wide (Finally!)
• Please read the details in this readme regarding use on WordPress MU
• Changed post nav on the single post page to prev/next post, instead of entry titles for length’s sake
• Disqus commenting plugins out-of-the-box styling enhancements
• We’re working on IntenseDebate plugin support, should be out with the next revision
• Added javascript to support framesets and screen size detection
• Fixed bug related to RSS feeds being broken in some situations
• Fixed issue with re-directs on some WP 2.5+ sites

Thanks to everyone who’s visited the BraveNewCode Support Forums and either posted about a plugin issue, or helped someone else who did- this is the kind of community we know exists around our plugins, and the kind of community we want to support. We browse the forums every couple days, and try to respond in a timely manner- but like everyone, we’re busy cats and sometimes it might take a little while before we get back to you, so please be patient if we haven’t responded to you yet.

The update is recommended for all users.

Here’s the short list of the updates/changes for 1.8.5:

• Fixed new switch link to work under different WordPress install scenarios
• Fixed switch link CSS style-sheet loading issues in some situations
• Added screenshot of new switch link appearance

Support

If you have an issue with WPtouch (or any of our plugins) please visit our new Support Forums. Search for your issue, and if there’s nothing currently being discussed about the problem, start a thread and we’ll try and address it.

That said, WPtouch 1.8.1 is out, and should be perfectly lovely for the vast majority of users.

For more details read the WPtouch 1.8 Post.

There’s been a considerable number of changes that are detailed in the readme.txt file, but we’re including most of them here with some extra notes.

Under The Hood The Engine Got A Scrub Down

Duane spent considerable time re-writing the core admin code, optimizing and restructuring the way WPtouch works its magic. Over and above the obvious reasons for doing this, we’re preparing for full tilt-a-whirl action with the release of WPtouch 2.0, a significant upgrade which will deliver the long-awaited internationalization and theme features.

As with any major change, we’ve done the best we could to test under a variety of conditions, but hope that feedback from you, our user, will help us weed out any additional hiccups as a result.

Manual Icons Are Bygone

Finally we’ve delivered a proper mechanism for the management of your custom icons through WPtouch. The upgrade to WPtouch is the last time you’ll have to say good bye to your custom icons with an upgrade, and have to manually replace them. With WPtouch 1.8 you can upload and delete your custom icons from the WPtouch admin panel, and future upgrades to both WPtouch and WordPress won’t affect your custom selections.

You’ve Got Style! More Options, Background Choices

We’ve has several requests to open up our rigid ways and allow for more customization of style options. While we do see the merit in this, part of our rigidity has to do with plans to allow for custom themes with WPtouch 2.0, thereby creating the ability for everyone to create tweaked versions of WPtouch or really unique, totally customized themes.

But WPtouch 2.0 is stilla few months away, so in the mean time we’ve added a few more style options.

So, added in this update is:

• The abilty to decide if paragraphs should be full width (default) or left-aligned
• The ability to choose between three different scales of font sizes
  (Regular, Medium & Large)
• The ability to choose between 3 different pinstripe background images
  (Classic, Horizontal, Diagonal)

Finding The Path To Home: Bug Fixes

We’ve fixed a number of path issues with WPtouch 1.8. As WPtouch is a complex plugin with features and functions that far surpass the average plugin its more difficult than it seems to bring all these great and advanced features to all kinds of WordPress users, hosting WordPress in unique ways. So we do our best with each successive update to make sure WPtouch looks in all the right places to find the things it needs to know about your WordPress install to work for you.

You Say Login, I Say Logout

There have been a few bugs related to login/out features working on some versions of WordPress, and we think we’ve solved them all. If you’ve had an issue related to this, please update and check to see if we’ve resolved it and report back.

We’ve also fixed a number of other minor issues, all of which are listed in the readme.txt file that accompanies the plugin .zip file.

Salam! Kaixo! Hej! Aloha! Salut! Hello!

WPtouch 1.8 has been prepared for internationalization. Over the coming weeks we’ll be working with some great volunteers to deliver WPtouch 1.9 in at least 5 languages, and we’ll work to try and at least double that for WPtouch 2.0. If you think you can help us accomplish this, please drop an e-mail to wptouch@bravenewcode.com and let us know what lingo you’re fluent in. If it’s a language not yet added, we’ll send the project details for you to help us out on Launchpad.

Coming Soon… And Then There Were Themes

With WPtouch 2.0, you’ll be able to do the same with themes. Custom style sheets, and even entire themes built off of the new core theme capabilities will bring the same great theming possibilities of WordPress itself to WPtouch. Stay tuned for information on our theme contest.

There’s a batch more things in this update, if you’re interested checkout the full list of changes here.

The way WordPress upgrades plugins is out of our control- so when you upgrade through the admin each time a plugin is moved out of the plugin folder, and the new one unzipped into it while the old is deleted.

What we can control is the creation of a folder for WPtouch in the WordPress uploads folder, which won’t be touched by WordPress, even when you upgrade WordPress itself.

With WPtouch 1.8 you’ll be able to upload your custom icons (securely) and select & activate them- and even delete them! And each time we release a new update you’ll never have to worry about your custom icons disappearing again.

We’ve also worked on hardening WPtouch a little and fixing some more bugs, so we think it’s a great update for everyone.

Look for it soon.

If you’ve downloaded 1.7-1.7.4, please update to 1.7.5 to fix the issues identified post-release.

First of all, a big thanks to everyone who posted in the comments, left us tweets and mailed in to report on the state of WPtouch 1.6 and the kinds of bugs they experienced & features they’d like to see— your feedback is invaluable to us.

We’re driving hard toward the big 2.0 release, which will see some remarkable changes, including (finally) localization for international users and themes. WPtouch 2.0 will ship with 3 default themes to choose from, to further customize your site’s appearance on the iPhone, iPod touch, Android and soon, Blackberry Storm.

We’ll also be adding a small documentation guide for aspiring designers and developers to work on their own WPtouch themes, which we’ll index and provide for download for free on the website. To stimulate some growth here, we’ll be having a contest with some good prizes for those who create some stellar themes. It’ll be a great time for WPtouch users the world over.

WPtouch 1.7.5

We considered issuing a small maintenance release to fix a couple of missed bugs with 1.6, but instead decided to hold off as they weren’t widespread and turn our focus to continuing to add features alongside solving pesky issues.

Below is the complete changelog for 1.7.5:

• Added option to do GZIP compression
• Added ability to choose if WPtouch or regular version of your site is shown first
• Fixed WP login/out button bugs
• Added login/out auto-detect for WP 2.7 or pre-WP 2.7 sites
• Fixed loading path issue that caused drop-down menu button to fail
• Added choice between alphabetical or page order sorting of the drop down menu
• Added clock icon
• Minor admin fixes & changes (+ better Mozilla browser support)
• Fixes for categories drop-down menu (now shows post #’s)
• Automatic detection & support for Peter’s anti-spam plugin
• Built-in support for Adsense in posts
• Moved Stats tracking box beside Advertising Options
• Better WordPress version support detection
• More refined image auto-sizing with WP added images & galleries in posts / pages
• Fix for WordPress shortcodes appearing in excerpts
• Changed how WPtouch shows switch links
• Auto-adjusting width/height for MobileSafari plugin objects (YouTube, Quicktime)
• 1.7.1: Fixed re-direct bug when viewing default theme from mobile device
• 1.7.2: Fixed missing Android support
• 1.7.3: Fixed broken login link on some installations
• 1.7.4: Fixed a warning that occurred when multiple gzip handlers were enabled

Download

Feel free to head on over to the WPtouch page to download the new version, or use the auto-update mechanism in your WordPress admin to install it. As always, we love to hear feedback from our users, and will continue to add new features and functionality going forward.

What’s Next?

We’re working on better Android support, built-in tie-in with WordTwit & twitter, localization, themes & more. Stay tuned.

We originally planned to release the update today, but have not as of yet found the solution to the issue. As soon as we do we’ll release the update, which also bundles other refinements, and the addition of enabling login from the header (offers a new dropdown).

Stay tuned.

While much faster and a better platform overall for WPtouch, it is currently causing problems for some users.

The issue lies in having other plugins on our site activated that are loading conflicting scripts. This causes jQuery to fail in loading properly, and renders the effects we use with it inoperable.

At current there is no way to check for others’ scripts, so we as plugin developers are stuck with this issue.

For the time being, please ‘disable advanced javascript’ in the WPtouch admin panel to resolve the issue. We will investigate a solution to fix this problem in an upcoming update.

Thanks for your comments and support, together we’re building a community of development for WPtouch that helps it get better and better!

The latest addition has the following notable fixes/changes:

• Ability to manually change the header bottom border color
• More admin styling enhancements, wording changes
• Fix for slashes appearing in the header title
• Fix for drop-down menu not working on some installations

As of the 1.3 release we’re automatically injecting the switch code into your regular theme’s template. This means that if you have manually placed the code in your template previously, you’ll have a duplicate pair of links. Please remove the manually added one, it’s no longer needed.

Remember to backup any custom files you have modified or added to WPtouch before upgrading. The 2.0 release will both include localization and a configuration which will avoid this upgrade issue entirely. We’re on track for a september release for WPtouch 2.0.

We hope that everything is shored up now with 1.3.2, so please upgrade and let us know. Most of the issues discussed in e-mails and on the WPtouch homepage seem to have been resolved from our end of testing.

We’ll be releasing a fixed package tonight, but if you want to correct the issue yourself you can make the above amendement and all will be fine. Other browsers are not affected.