Appstores and WPtouch

Unlike many advertising options that typically advertise websites, products or services, Appstores allows publishers to advertise mobile-specific applications which can be downloaded onto an end-user’s phone. Here’s a description of how it works from Appstore’s site:

Is your website optimized for mobile? Yes? Great, you can make more money by recommending apps. Here’s how it works: we look at the content of your mobile site, and we surface the most relevant apps. Users love it because they get highly relevant apps. You’ll love it, because the engagement will be higher than vanilla mobile banners. Developers will love it because for once, they are getting relevant app downloads. Everyone wins.

This is an exciting new area for mobile advertising, and BraveNewCode is proud to be a launching partner with the Appstores team.

The changes have already been incorporated into the WPtouch 1.9.x codebase, so you can update to it immediately and try out the new Appstores advertising option. We’ll also be incorporating this new advertising option in WPtouch Pro soon, so look for that in the near future.

Soon we’ll pass 3 million downloads of WPtouch, the most popular and easy-to-use mobile plugin for WordPress. We expect to cross the mark sometime in the next few weeks!

To celebrate we’re giving away a 32GB iPhone 4S in your choice of white or black!

We’ll draw a winner and make an announcement on Twitter and our blog. If you’re the selected winner, we’ll contact you on Twitter.

Good luck to all entrants!

The contest is now closed. We’ll draw the winner soon.

*Prize is available to North American and EU residents only.

Recently Google began the GoMo initiative, an online campaign to increase awareness of the importance of having a mobile-specific version of your website for your visitors.

WHAT IS A MOBILE SITE AND WHY DO YOU NEED ONE?
Just because you can see your desktop site on a mobile phone doesn’t mean it’s mobile-friendly. Mobile sites are designed for the small screen, with the needs of mobile users in mind. A mobile-friendly site can help your business connect with customers and drive conversions.

The GoMo website includes useful information and powerful statistics to show you why going mobile should be an important part of your online business plan & future.

It will also allow you to test your website, and will give you a ranking of 1-4 in terms of the quality of the mobile experience you’re offering visitors.

Lastly it provides a small, non-WordPress list of vendors that assist in building mobile sites. We’re not yet listed, but that will likely change, and folks like us will be included.

Adwords Quality Score Now Affected by Mobile Sites

Google also recently announced that mobile site optimization now affects your AdWords Quality Score. This means that serving ads to mobile visitors with a mobile-optimized website will earn you a higher rank.

The AdWords system will automatically visit your landing page, and evaluate your site as viewed by smartphones. However, if you already have a mobile site, we recommend confirming with your webmaster that you’ve configured your server to show the mobile-optimized site when the AdWords mobile User-Agent is detected.

So in both cases, WPtouch & WPtouch Pro powered WordPress websites score perfect and will help you both with your business presence online in an increasingly mobile ‘webscape’, while also improving your Adwords quality & revenue.

The vulnerability declared at packetstormsecurity.org and other security alert-type sites is impossible.

There is no ajax.php file in the root of WPtouch, therefore this vulnerability is flat-out impossible.

We take WordPress security seriously at BraveNewCode, having previously issued updates for security exploits in our plugins that we’ve found before they’re in the wild.

We know WPtouch is a popular plugin and one that can be targeted because of it’s popularity and wide install base. We work hard to ensure the safety of our plugins on your WordPress installations.

Retina Startup + Landscape Startup on iPad

Default Startup Screen in WPtouch Pro 2.4

Additionally, it’s now possible with iOS 5 to add a Landscape version of the startup image for iPad. effectively now you can offer startup screens in your WPtouch Pro Web-App in exactly the same way that native apps can.

FitVid.js

In WPtouch Pro 2.4 we’ve added the fitvids.js jQuery plugin, which takes your object, embed, iframe and html5 videos in posts and pages and automatically scales them based on orientation, and screen size. In WPtouch Pro 2.4 your videos will always look great.

Aloha! iOS 5 Native Scrolling

As if the above wasn’t enough, we’ve also added iOS 5 native scrolling for Web-App Mode on mobile, and replaced the javascript scrolling we used on iPad with iOS 5 native scrolling.

iOS 5 on iPhone & iPod touch

Now in Web-App mode the header remains fixed like native apps, while the body content scrolls in native speed and momentum.

iOS 5 on iPad

The result is a smooth scrolling experience, coupled with access to features in mobileSafari which were previously impossible on iPad like text selection. For previous iOS versions on iPad, the scrolling method will gracefully degrade.

♥ Android

Along with several styling and appearance improvements for Android devices, we’ve also added support for ontouchstart and ontouchend to Android. This speeds up interacting with the UI and makes for a more native experience.

The Whole Story

For a complete list of changes for 2.4 you can visit the support posting about the new release (you need to be logged in with a pro account), or view the change log in the read me accompanying the update.

“What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts.”
~ RAY EAMES

It’s almost September, and here at BraveNewCode the fall is always a productive time. Last year we were hard at work in the fall delivering the 2.1 update for WPtouch Pro which brought child themes, iPad support, and a slew of new capabilities. We were also busy launching Piggy, our mobile web-app for WordPress e-Commerce sales stats, and also began work on WordTwit Pro, the premium version of our popular WordPress to Twitter publishing tool.

Today

We’ve been humbled by the success of WPtouch and WPtouch Pro. To date, WPtouch (+ Pro) runs on over 25 million WordPress websites worldwide, encompassing both self-hosted WordPress.org websites and WordPress.com hosted websites. The simple, elegant and easy-to-use nature of our plugins coupled with our attention to detail and customer care have made us the #1 choice for mobile presentation of a WordPress website, and for this we have to thank our users and customers.

WPtouch (free version)

The free version of WPtouch is regularly maintained, and in recent updates we’ve added some small features, expanded 3rd party plugin support and increased security. We’ll continue to do so going forward, and at some point in the not too distant future we’ll hand-down some of the Pro features to WPtouch.

WPtouch Pro 2.x

There are a few milestones we’d like to reach with the 2.x series of WPtouch Pro. Specifically, more performance and speed improvements both to its themes and the admin panel. Improvements and enhancements in media handling to make it easier to publish audio, video and photos with WPtouch Pro are also planned for the 2.x release series. Improvements and enhancements on iPad are also coming alongside the release of Apple’s iOS 5 software update, due this fall.

The Marketplace

Inevitably, more competitors are entering the mobile market with WordPress and trying to cash in on our success and the popularity that mobile + tablet devices are enjoying worldwide. There’s certainly room for competition and we’re inspired by the WordPress development communities’ creativity.

It seems that WPtouch Pro is the gold standard in mobile plugins; competing products are only now adding some comparable features that WPtouch Pro users have enjoyed for over a year now. It’s exciting to see that our innovations have made an impression, and mobile plugins are expected to offer a baseline of features that we pioneered with WPtouch.

Even Further

We’d like to revolutionize the way mobile themes are made once again. We’ve examined usage and feedback we’ve received and are inventing new ways to approach mobile theme creation and curation. We’re also looking at improving theming options and the extensibility of WPtouch Pro.

We hope customers are going to love what we’ll be delivering with WPtouch Pro down the road.

~The BraveNewCode Team

As of September 1st, 2011 The Community Forums on our Support site are being discontinued in favour of community support for our free products through the WordPress.org support forums.

All Community Forums will be removed and become inaccessible via bravenewcode.com/support.

You will still be able to access community support for our free products via WordPress’ forums.

Customers with Licenses for any of our premium plugins will not be affected by this change.

If you haven’t updated WPtouch in the last few days, then this issue will not have affected you. But we encourage anyone that is running WPtouch version 1.9.27 or 1.9.28 to update to version 1.9.29 immediately.

We apologize to anyone affected by this issue, and thank the WordPress team for contacting us about it and working diligently today to remove any suspicious code.

As a plugin developer, PHP 4 definitely makes life more complicated. Plugins end up becoming bloated when you need to have separate code for both PHP 4 and PHP 5. Removing the dependency on PHP 4 allows WordPress to remove old code and help streamline the entire codebase.

What does that mean for the users of our products?

Both WPtouch Pro and Piggy currently work with later versions of PHP 4 currently. Some time after WordPress 3.2 comes out, we will deprecate support for PHP 4.

Internally our policy has always been to try (when possible) to support the last two major versions, so when 3.2 comes out we’ll be supporting it and 3.1. But as development proceeds on the next version of WordPress, we’ll remove the PHP 4 aspects from our code and start using PHP 5 exclusively. That allows the code to be smaller, newer (usually more efficient) and we can use PHP 5 functions only, which in general results in a faster development cycle.

WordTwit Pro, which has just been released requires PHP 5 already.

So if you’re a WordPress user you should start looking at what your host provides in PHP support to make sure you’re ready when 3.2 is released. On many hosts switching to PHP 5 is as simple as clicking a button in the hosting control panel, and on others you can usually add a small snippet to your .htaccess file. Unfortunately there are still some hosts that do not provide PHP 5 at all, and for those you will probably have to find an alternate host, or explain to them why they should add support immediately to allow their customers to upgrade their WordPress installations.

WordPress, Meet Twitter

Today we’re excited to reveal what we’ve been working on for the past few months: WordTwit Pro, our premium version of WordTwit, the best WordPress to Twitter publishing plugin.

In WordTwit Pro you have complete publishing control over the tweets you send out using its sleek new publishing widget. Set schedule, repeat & delay options for a new status update; select and publish to multiple Twitter accounts; Authorize those account for shared use among other WordPress authors on your site; easily add custom hashtags and more— all on-the-fly in a few clicks with the new WordTwit Pro publishing widget.

Multiple Accounts

Multiple Account Bliss

In WordTwit Pro you can easily setup multiple Twitter accounts for publishing. And it’s easy to decide which accounts WordTwit Pro will publish to, on a completely per-post basis.

WordTwit Pro also supports setting accounts as shared or private— perfect for multi-author websites to control the publishing options available for each contributor, author or editor.

And you can even authorize other authors to add their own Twitter accounts securely.

Tweet Scheduling

Scheduling Galore

As with the free version, WordTwit Pro can immediately publish a tweet about your new post to Twitter. Now with WordTwit Pro we’ve added easy to use scheduling, which allows for multiple tweets to be published to Twitter separated by the time you specify, on a per-post basis.

For example, you can now:

• Delay the first tweet from publishing right away for a certain amount of time
• Specify that a tweet be published multiple times, at the interval you choose
• And do both!

Custom #Hashtags

Hashtag Support

We’ve also added another often-requested feature, but went over-the-top in our implementation: totally custom hashtag support.

Instead of just accessing WordPress’ categories or tags to use as hashtags, we’ve built our own hash-tagging system which allows you to quickly and easily add hashtags to your tweets.

It also smart— the new publishing widget provides you with a list of your popular/recently used hashtags and in a few clicks you can add the ones you want to a tweet.

So whether you’re adding a hashtag that’s totally new or those you use often— it’s a breeze to add hashtags to your WordTwit Pro tweets.

Click To Edit

We’ve also added a new Manual Mode for the publishing widget. Simply click to edit-in-place your tweet’s text, title, tags and link. It’s 100% control over the tweets you’ll send out if you need it.

Per Post/Page

It’s also one click easy to decide whether a new post you’re publishing will have a Twitter update published with it. No more excluding by category— just simply flip the widget off with its publish toggle… that’s it.

Tweet Log

Tweet Log

With the new Tweet Log you can see past tweets, upcoming tweets, and any errors that occurred, and what the error message was from Twitter.

Manage, control and delete right from the Tweet Log— you now have more control after you click the ‘Publish’ button.

Admin Panel

Awesome Admin Panel

 
To top it all off, WordTwit Pro features the same intuitive, easy-to-use admin panel that we designed for our WPtouch Pro and Piggy plugins.

With its BraveNewCode admin panel, you can change settings, control your WordTwit Pro setup effortlessly, and do it all in style.

Licenses & Pricing

Licenses for WordTwit Pro include timely, professional customer support in our Support Forums, free upgrades through all 3.x releases, and automatic-upgrades in the admin panel, just like you enjoy with WordPress’ regular plugins.

License types:

$39 — Single license:
Includes support and auto-upgrades for one WordPress website

$79 — 5-Pack license:
Includes support and auto-upgrades for up to 5 WordPress websites

$139 — Unlimited/MU license:
Includes support and auto-upgrades on an unlimited number of WordPress websites, including WordPress MU/Multisite implementations

Available June 10th, 2011

WordTwit Pro will be available for purchase on Friday, June 10th, 2011. Click here to view the product page with even more detail about its features and capabilities.

One More Thing… Private Beta!

There is also a private beta available to all WPtouch Pro and Piggy customers, available today in the pro support forums. You’ll need to be logged in with your WPtouch Pro and/or Piggy account to view the post and access the download for the beta.

2 Million Served

Wow! Today we’re excited to report that we’ve crossed the 2,000,000 downloads mark on the counter present on the official wordpress.org WPtouch plugin page.

It Started in 2008

Most people might not know this, but WPtouch 1.0 was officially released over 3 years ago in April of 2008. Since that time it’s seen massive success— some of it beyond its 2 million downloads via wordpress.org. WPtouch is also used on WordPress.com, powering millions and millions of WordPress websites everywhere.

Becoming The Standard

With it’s pairing of ease of use and great features, WPtouch has become the standard mobile plugin for WordPress websites. Users the world over enjoy it’s uncompromising support for standard WordPress features while providing fast, efficient mobile presentation of content.

Going Pro

In the summer of last year we released the premium successor to WPtouch, WPtouch Pro. With the Pro version we added over 200 new features and capabilities, and improved every aspect of the product delivering an extremely high-quality plugin that offers incredible value— something competing products have yet to beat.

In January of this year we shipped a major update to WPtouch Pro, 2.1. In that update we delivered amazing iPad support, integrated in an easy to use way that shared many common settings with the mobile theme. Other products simply can’t offer the depth of features, capability, quality and ease of use that WPtouch Pro customers enjoy.

The Future

Going forward, we hope to hand-down some the advancements made in WPtouch Pro to our freely available version. And more updates and new features, themes and more are planned for WPtouch Pro releases throughout the next 15 months.

Thanks To You

All of the attention, success and love for WPtouch and BraveNewCode as a company is thanks solely to our users and customers.

We’re a small company, and our business is built on great user experiences and word-of-mouth reviews and recommendations— so thank you to everyone who’s been behind us and our work.

See you at 3,000,000!

We wanted to write a follow-up to this article as many followers on Twitter found the post by Jakob and asked us about it, plus— we’re big fans of Jakob, too!

First off, it has to be stated that it seems Jakob didn’t know that this is a free plugin for WordPress, and was mostly in its basic, default settings. As a result, his review is skewed towards thinking allkpop.com made all the decisions in the design appearance for the mobile version.

WPtouch’s default settings are mostly aimed at exposing its most commonly used features, making it simpler for a user to setup (or in some cases, they don’t even have to set anything up, you just activate it and go!).

While Jakob had some great things to say about WPtouch, he recommeded a few design changes which, unbeknownst to him are either configurable options in the WPtouch plugin, or options in our newer WPtouch Pro plugin.

The site he reviewed is allkpop.com, a celebrity news and gossip site.

Here’s the site he saw:

And here’s his re-desgined version:

We’ll respond to his list of design changes one by one here:

1. Fewer features, which we achieved by removing three elements:
bylines, because they aren’t needed to choose an article (which is the only point of listing headlines on the front page); selectable categories and tags, which were too small to hit reliably anyway (and categories like “music” seem worthless on a pop site); and the triangle-button that displays a summary in place (instead, we always show a summary).

Bylines, categories and tags are options in the WPtouch settings, and can be turned off easily. The drop-arrow that reveals the excerpt is also a configuration option (excerpts shown) in the admin settings.

2. Bigger touch targets. The entire story tile can now be tapped, and users no longer need the added precision of tapping the headline itself…

We agree that the full tile as a clickable link is a good thing— but hard to implement given our options for this area. We chose instead to add a “read this article” link in addition to being able to tap on a title.

3. Full headlines instead of truncated headlines. This is probably the biggest redesign…

Full headlines or truncated headlines is also an option in the WPtouch settings.

4. Enhanced scannability by highlighting each pop star’s name in the headlines.

This we can’t really do anything about, nor WordPress itself without some custom hacking around.

5. Even more information scent by showing a short story summary (a “deck”) under each headline.

Let’s be honest, the term “information scent” is kind of creepy, no? (jk, Jakob).

Here Jakob doesn’t know that we are simply creating excerpts automatically from post content, and thus need to truncate. WPtouch will show the custom excerpt set for a post if it’s used.

6. Using pop star photos instead of date icons. Not only does this add some visual interest, it further enhances scannability and information scent as many users will recognize their favorite star’s face faster than they can read a headline.

WPtouch supports using thumbnails instead of the calendar icons as an admin option.

7. Room for 4 full story tiles without scrolling. The slightly tighter spacing lets users view the entire 4th story summary in their first scan of the page. If users do scroll down, the ability to view more tiles in less space also means that they work a bit less for each new story, and so they’re likely to want more of them. Because this second benefit is relatively small, we considered making the tiles smaller to display more stories on the first screen. On balance, the added information scent from the story summaries and pop star photos seemed a better use of the space — but testing an alternative would be worthwhile.

We disagree with this one— it’s a common practice on the web to “cut the fold”, meaning that content is cut-off at the bottom of the viewport to reveal to a user that scrolling will shown more content. If everything is neatly shown above the bottom of the viewport, it might appear that that’s all there is.

Additionally, because WPtouch dynamically truncates excerpts, some tiles are taller vertically than others. We spent a considerable amount of time trying all the variations in the settings to find a happy place where the appearance of a tile was decent no matter what the options were.

8. Showing the publication date only as a divider between stories published on different dates. Because so many stories are published each day, users typically see only the current day’s date when they access the site, unless they scroll down far enough to reach yesterday’s news. Thus, the story date is not worth the substantial screen real estate it occupies in the live design. In general, it’s good to question any mobile design that repeats the same information multiple times; such redundancy is probably a poor use of highly limited screen space.

Jakob doesn’t know that when thumbnails are used in WPtouch, the date is shown below the title of the post instead. We did look at designs where we only showed the date as a divider between posts, but it didn’t quite look/work right with the “Load More Entries” feature, so we canned it because it seemed confusing.

9. Adding more space between the navigation bar’s two options so users are less likely to touch the wrong one.

This one makes sense, though we don’t often find that users struggle with the WPtouch header links, we decided in WPtouch Pro to get rid of the thin bar below the header bar altogether in favour of the drop-down menu.

10. Labeling the drop-down menu instead of simply denoting it by a triangle. (It’s just above search in the original design — a subtle presentation that’s mostly overlooked by users.) Depending on which commands are actually in the menu, a different name might be better. We didn’t redesign the entire navigation system, but we assumed that a revised categorization system would be the most valuable and usable way to navigate the site, after headline-tapping and search. (See our seminar on IA structuring for more information on how to determine the best access schemes.)

In WPtouch Pro we moved all links on the thin bar within a menu toggle button which has the text “Menu”, precisely because we agree with this thinking. In all honesty we haven’t gotten around to doing the changes in WPtouch 1.9.x, but plan to.

Not Too Shabby

So there you have it! I think Jakob would be impressed to see most of the things he critiqued are included as options in WPtouch, our free mobile plugin offering for WordPress.

WPtouch Pro 2.2 Admin Panel Snap

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

2.2 Web-App Mode Notice Bubble

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.

2.2— optimized JavaScript

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

As it turns out, it’s a bit of both.

There’s a post here describing the nature of the category exclusion bug plaguing queries in 3.1. This has been fixed and in the next release the fix will solve problems for those who have not been up to date on WPtouch’s releases (currently 1.9.24 as of this post).

Though there’s a genuine bug in 3.1 and category exclusion, the method we were using to exclude categories in WPtouch was a little antiquated and backwards.

We’ve since cleaned things up and are using much better (and still backwards compatible) code to exclude categories, and while we did that we also added a few more aspects to the exclusion routine that improve and extend it.

Now, category exclusion will truly exclude that category everywhere. Searches, archive results, and of course the category drop-down list all respect the excluded categories defined in WPtouch.

Exclude by Tag

In the process, we’ve added the same control and power to exclude by tag, and you can even combine the two and WPouch will take care of it, without affecting whatever you’re doing on your desktop theme.

Other Bugs

We also cleaned up some more code and went through debug logs to make sure WPtouch runs error, warning, and php notice free on your server.

Coming Up

The next release (1.9.25) will be available soon and lays the troubles to rest, along with adding new filters to make sure WPtouch doesn’t load on the Samsung Galaxy Tab or Motorola Xoom tablets.

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

• 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.

1.9.22.1 includes:

This update is recommended for all users.

Since then we’ve accomplished a fair bit. In terms of free plugins that we actively develop, we have released WPtouch 1.9.x (which just passed 1.5 million downloads), WordTwit, and Earth Hour (which we will be updating shortly). We have also had the pleasure of helping develop websites for many great clients, including Courtney Summers, Rogers Communications, musician Matthew Good, and many more. We also released a professional version of WPtouch in June of 2010, and recently released an update to it that added full iPad support.

As many people know, Dale and I don’t live in the same city. In fact, prior to forming BraveNewCode, we had probably only seen each other in the “real world” two or three times, but had enough faith in our vision and our friendship to turn our passions into products, and set off on the adventure that we now call BraveNewCode.

Right now Dale is in Hamilton, Ontario, and I’m down in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I used to live near Vancouver, Canada, but since I can effectively work on BraveNewCode products and services from anywhere with an internet connection, I’ve decided to change the scenery a bit. But despite our distance, we still manage to help our customers achieve success and to push the boundaries with all of our plugins.

This year we have a lot of big plans in store for BraveNewCode, so we want to take this opportunity to thank our fans, our followers, our friends and all of our existing customers who have supported us over the years. Stay tuned for an announcement regarding a new product of ours, and look for more exciting things to come in the not too distance future.

Topics Include: (from his show notes):

• Who is Dale Mugford and how did BraveNewCode begin?
• Why did you specifically choose to support WordPress?
• Why would someone who has a website or blog powered by WordPress need WPtouch?
• WPtouch install process
• Free versus purchasable versions available
• WPtouch celebrity endorsement from Stephen Fry
• WPtouch Web-App mode
• The opportunities with HTML5
• WPtouch Apple iPad support
• Supporting other tablet devices
• Considering interface and screen sizes on a tablet
• Options within WPtouch
• Disabling plugins specifically for mobile themes
• Prioritising content
• Possible future developments for WPtouch
• Dale reverses roles and interviews James on his experience of WPtouch onJames Woodcock’s blog

You can listen to the podcast here.

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!