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WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application experience when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch or Android touch mobile device. It comes complete with all the standard WordPress blog features: search, login, categories, tags, archives, photos & more. WPtouch also offers many customization features through a beautifully designed WordPress admin panel.

I thought the iPhone/iPod touch/Android shows my
website just fine the way it is now?

Not all websites are created equal, with some sites failing to translate well in the viewport of a small mobile device. Many WordPress sites today make heavy use of different javascripts which significantly increase the load time of pages, and drive your visitors on 3G/EDGE batty. So we’ve come up with WPtouch, a lightweight, fast-loading, feature-rich and highly-customized “theme application” which includes an admin interface to let you customize many aspects of your site’s presentation.

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a. Each load was done with an iPhone running 3.0 software
b. Full signal bars for each network
c. mobileSafari’s cache and history were dumped for each load
d. Reflects load-time average of 3 consecutive loads for each network speed
e. BraveNewCode.com is a well-optimized site (minified javascript & css), most sites are not as optimized

Well, what if my users don’t like it & want to see my regular site?

There’s an option in the footer with WPtouch for your users to easily switch between the WPtouch view and your site’s regular appearance, with the choice saving a cookie for future visits— it’s that easy. We even automatically put a little snippet of code for the switch link into your current theme which will be shown only to mobile visitors, giving them control to choose between the two site views easily.

Will it slow down my blog?

Not bloody likely! Unless of course you’re getting slammed with all sorts of traffic because you’ve installed this sexy thang. The theme package for WPtouch is small (200KB or so). It was designed to be as lightweight and speedy as possible, while still serving your site’s content in a richly presented way sparing no essential features like search, login, categories, tags and comments.

Donations

Several people have asked us if we accept donations for our work on WPtouch. We sure do! This plugin represents hundreds of hours of work, both in development and testing. We do our best to add new features weekly so that it stays at the cutting edge. We are thrilled with the response it has received, and are committed to providing new features and bug fixes in a timely manner. All donations received will help us achieve that and ensure that WPtouch continues to enhance the experience of WordPress on the iPhone.

If you’d like to donate (even a little’s a lot!), please visit our paypal page. Also, to show our thanks to our supporters, we’ve added an all-time WPtouch friends and family listing in the sidebar, so check it out.

So if you donate and would like to be a part of that, please let us know and we’ll make sure your personal or company name(s) & links is shown.

Latest Release Information

For the revision history on the latest release, checkout the Updates & Revision History Table Of Contents item.

IMPORTANT!
As of WPtouch 1.8 you no longer have to worry about losing your custom icons! Okay, you’ll lose them when you upgrade to WPtouch 1.8, but forever and ever amen you’ll never have to worry about it again! Simply use the new uploader tool in the WPtouch admin to upload your custom icons. You can even delete the ones you’ve added from the admin, too!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Upgrading
  • Getting Started
  • Requirements
  • Built-in Feature Set
  • Download, Installation, & Plugin Activation
  • Admin Options
  • Template Switch Code
  • Solving WP-Cache Incompatibility
  • Updates & Revision History
  • Initial release