Another Giant Leap Forward for WordPress

WPtouch Pro^TM 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 iPad^TM, 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.

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.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Below are the winners of our free iPad^TM + WPtouch Pro^TM Licenses Giveaway Contest!

1st Draw:

iPad 64GB + 3G and a WPtouch Pro Developer/Unlimited License:
@maguay

2nd Draw:

A WPtouch Pro 5-Pack License:
@suggymoto

3rd, 4th and 5th Draws:

WPtouch Pro Single Licenses:
@rumple, @cidodd, and @benny8484

We’ll be sending direct messages to the winners on Twitter to let them know that they’ve won. To claim your prize, please contact us and we’ll finish setting up your WPtouch Pro account.

Thank you to everyone who entered the contest, and a big congratulations to the winners! We’ll have a few more contests in the future, so keep checking our Twitter feed for details in the future.

On behalf of everyone here at BraveNewCode, we want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year!

The contest is now closed, thanks to everyone who participated!
We’ll be announcing the winners shortly.
*Some conditions apply

Over $1250 CAD Value in Prizes!

To celebrate the forthcoming release of our 2.1 update for WPtouch Pro (which includes amazing iPad support) we’re giving away a top-of-the-line iPad, together with a WPtouch Pro developer license.

There are also runner-up WPtouch Pro licenses, too.

The 5 Prizes available to be won are:
- An Apple iPad, 64GB with 3G/WiFi, along with a WPtouch Pro Developer License
- One WPtouch Pro 5-Pack License
- 3 separate WPtouch Pro Single Licenses

All you need to do to enter is click the “Tweet Now” button above + tweet the entry message and follow us on Twitter!

The contest runs until this Friday December 17th 2010 at 12pm noon EST.

We’ll draw the winners then and announce them on twitter and our blog. If you’re a selected winner, we’ll contact you on Twitter.

*iPad prize is available to North American and EU residents only.

The iPad, complete with Apple Gift Box!

WPtouch Pro 2.1: Available Soon

Very soon we’ll be releasing the 2.1 update for WPtouch Pro, a free update for all existing customers.

WPtouch and WPtouch Pro^TM have 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 iPad^TM, 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 unbelievable price.

Today we’re happy to announce the availability of a beta release for the next major update to WPtouch Pro, version 2.1.

What’s New

Along with bug fixes and admin enhancements, 2.1 brings 3 major additions: Child Theme Support, Custom Menus, and the long awaited addition of iPad support.

Video Overview

Purpose Of The Beta

This beta release is only for evaluation and interest in improving WPtouch Pro by helping us resolve issues.

We know that many of you want to try out iPad support, so we’re pleased to make this beta available for testing.

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 happy to browse and enjoy the website content you present to them.

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 delivered
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.

Installation & Details

Existing customers of WPtouch Pro should download and install the beta separately from their existing installations.

Because of the nature of beta software, aspects of the code are subject to change. As a result theme development is not recommended nor supported.

A new beta support forum & thread have been added in which you can post questions and let us know about any issues you might have.

We hope you enjoy the beta!
~ The BraveNewCode Team

Its been a busy summer for BraveNewCode! Launching WPtouch Pro was an intense project, and we’ve been proud of the response so far. We keep improving WPtouch Pro, too, and have lots of great features, new themes and some surprises planned going forward.

Every once in awhile we like to share an overview of what’s been happening and what we’re up to— affectionately, our “state of the code” address of sorts.

WPtouch 1.9.19

While WPtouch Pro is our main focus, we still give love and attention to WPtouch 1.9, servicing it for bug fixes and feature additions to make it even better.

We just released version 1.9.19, and with it we’ve finally delivered true localization. We’ve included the .pot file in the new /lang folder, which can be used to create language .mo files to translate both the theme and the admin panel.

Submit your translation today to translation@wptouch.com, and we’ll review it for inclusion in a future release.

WPtouch Pro v2.0.9

We’ve been chipping away at point releases for WPtouch Pro, now reaching 2.0.9 and delivering with it fixes, enhancements, compatibility and stability improvements.

Notable new additions include better custom language translation handling, improvements in WordPress Multisite compatibility, and a new feature allowing WPtouch Pro to be disabled for selected URLs and pages.

We strongly recommend upgrading if you’re running any previous version of WPtouch Pro.
WPtouch Pro 2.0.9 will be available later today.

Upcoming: WPtouch Pro v2.1

We’ve begun work on the next major version of WPtouch Pro, which will deliver iPad support, child themes, and support for WordPress 3.0′s custom menus.

Many people have inquired as to what iPad support will be in 2.1, and we’d like to share a couple of thoughts about it.

First of all, iPad support will be opt-in. When you update to 2.1 you’ll be able to decide whether you want to enable iPad support or not. Some are happy with the way their sites look and work on iPad already, and for those people they won’t have to do anything.

For those who do want iPad support, they have a number of options related to what happens with iPad support, and we’ll undoubtedly add to those options over time.

There are already some solutions available for iPad theme stuff with WordPress. We could have shipped “support” for iPad very early on, by simply enabling the user agent and letting WPtouch be WPtouch on iPad. We didn’t for several reasons, but the most important is that we don’t think WPtouch as a theme concept is appropriate on a device like iPad.

Small, hand-held mobile devices are very different from tablet devices such as the iPad. And the iPad user interface, (while borrowing from the iPhone) has some dramatic differences, most notably the way in which vertical and horizontal views are handled in most apps.

So we’re hoping our solutions feel as natural, intuitive and enjoyable for users as possible. And because we don’t have to make the same kinds of compromises as we do with WPtouch (for device compatibility), we can do a few things that should enhance the web experience of a site using WPtouch Pro on iPad.

WPtouch Pro Affiliate Program

We recently launched a new Affiliate Program for customers of WPtouch Pro. Earn 20% on purchases of WPtouch Pro made through text or image advertisements on your website. Find out more ->

WordTwit

We’ve received lots of feedback over the past few months on our WordPress Twitter plugin, WordTwit. Ideas on how to make it better, and what people would like to see added to it have trickled in on our Forums, over Twitter, and here on the blog.

Though we haven’t said much publicly, we’ve been listening to everyone and have been working on adding several enhancements and new features to bring WordTwit up to version 3.0 with some powerful new additions. Stay tuned on the progress towards its 3.0 release, we’ll have new details available soon.

Site Revamp

We’re also chipping away at an overhaul of the entire BNC site, including the forums. We’re re-designing and tweaking the whole experience, focusing on account access and easier support assistance for our customers.

We hope everyone will enjoy the new site when we unveil the new digs. We’ll post some screenshots for feedback a little further down the road.

Thanks

We want to say thanks to all our WPtouch Pro customers, our users, friends, family and followers. It’s your support and interest in what we’re doing that keeps us motivated to do more.

Best,
The BraveNewCode Team