WPtouch Pro 2.2 Now Available

We’re always looking at ways we can improve, optimize and streamline our work, especially for our mobile plugins WPtouch, WPtouch Pro and Piggy. On mobile, every split second counts, and we work hard to improve the speed of our products while maintaining ease of use and clean under-the-hood code.

In the WPtouch Pro 2.2 update (now available) we’ve packed more improvements, fixes, tweaks & refinements than ever before in anything we’ve done. After a solid four weeks of work, every corner of our premium mobile plugin offering was given a good wash and made even better for our customers.

WPtouch Pro 2.2 is a free update for all existing customers.

Highlights

With WPtouch Pro we revolutionized mobile WordPress plugins bringing our one-of-a-kind Web-App Mode feature to WordPress self-hosted sites everywhere.

With Web-App Mode you can effortlessly offer a fullscreen web application version of you website for visitors on iOS devices, out-of-the-box.

In WPtouch Pro 2.2, the technology unpinning Web-App Mode has been re-written for even better performance and reliability, on both mobile and iPad.

We’ve also improved compatibility with other WordPress plugins that require AJAX like Google Translate. For these plugins, a single click disables WPtouch Pro’s AJAX in web-app mode to ensure compatibility. WPtouch Pro then intelligently uses a new method for loading your site pages without AJAX, all while maintaining a smooth, fast mobile web application experience.

Squish!

We also took the time needed to eliminate a variety of smaller issues that crept up after the 2.1 release. In total, we’ve fixed dozens of issues found by team staff and customers, totalling 300 new code changes.

Swoosh!

Despite WPtouch Pro being a much larger plugin than its free companion, it still loads faster on mobile devices than WPtouch 1.9.x. That said, there’s lot of new features, settings and options, so when loading the WPtouch Pro admin on some servers it resulted in less optimal performance.

So we wanted to do better. We’ve re-factored code and reduced memory usage. We also made a variety of changes to many smaller aspects of the way our revolutionary admin panel works to slim and shave load times and improve usability.

Our admin panel is truly awesome, offering all settings for WPtouch Pro in one place— all in a clean, easy to use layout.

On the theme side WPtouch on mobile and iPad runs smoother than ever, up to 1.5x times faster* with its re-factored code. For example the 2.1.5 theme.js file for mobile was over 900 lines. In 2.2, it’s 453, and does even more!

What’s Next

With these major improvements completed, the focus for WPtouch Pro turns back to themes, so look for new theme additions in the coming releases ahead.

*Based on tests conducted on BraveNewCode.com running WPtouch Pro 2.2

WPtouch Plugin Update

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

Today we issued an update for WPtouch 1.9, and also posted another beta release of WPtouch Pro 2.1 (RC1) for WPtouch Pro customers.

1.9.21

WPtouch 1.9.21 (free) includes a few performance and maintenance improvements which improve interface responsiveness on iOS devices, and fix a number of reported bugs over the past few weeks.

WPtouch Pro 2.1 RC1

We’re finally here! It’s been awhile since we posted a new beta update. We’ve had lots of things going on over the past number of weeks, and have been able to get back on track and move towards completing 2.1.

Lots of fixes, changes, improvements and additions have been made, and this release is now at Release Candidate status, as its viewed by us as feature complete.

Changes for this release include both the iPad theme and the mobile versions of the Classic theme.

Here’s some highlights from the changelog for the release:

* Added: Web-App Mode supported on iPad
* Added: Deep Blue UI theme on iPad
* Added: Compatibility setting to remove short-code content in WPtouch Pro
* Added: Ability to select between mobile and iPad devices for developer mode
* Added: New icon set of Android Icons courtesy of androidicons.com

* Changed: Significant speed and load-time improvements in Classic theme
* Changed: Comment fly-in form on iPad: better handling of 3rd-party comment plugins
* Changed: Improved Web-App Mode persistence setting load time dramatically

* Fixed: Issues related to login, forms & search in themes
* Fixed: An issue which could cause the switch link to fail
* Fixed: Incorrect detection of BlackBerry Torch
* Fixed: An issue which could cause a blank space in the header area of themes
* FIxed: Issues related to the use of transparent light/white icons on iPad
* Fixed: An issue which caused scrolling to top after posts have loaded in mobile theme
* Fixed: Issue with missing pages in menu setup when two or more pages have the same name
* Fixed: An issue with the thumbnail mask appearance on mobile WebOS devices

Today we’ve pushed out a maintenance and enhancement release for WPtouch, our popular mobile plugin for WordPress. In the updates (1.9.4 & 1.9.4.1) you’ll find the following fixes and changes:

Version 1.9.4.1

Fixed space appearing below title on single post pages

Added compressed js for the admin

Updated Fancybox script & files to v1.2.5

Updated Ajax Upload script to v3.6

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.

Ugly, ugly, ugly. Maybe it’s the way Apple’s been doing things lately that’s infected us, or the fact that sleep has been in short supply, but we released the 1.3 branch of WPtouch with some missing screws and bolts.

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.