How Do I Make My WordPres site More Mobile Friendly?

Dreams · 9th Nov 2011, 10:34 PM

Hi,

Right now I'm using a free WordPress plugin called, "WP Mobile Detector." How do I get my mobile site to look exactly like my original site (with all its posts) without it costing too much? Preferably a free way.

Can you recommend some free ways of making my WordPress site more mobile friendly? Like does all my meta data info get automatically put into the mobile version etc...?

How do I optimize my mobile site? SEO etc...

Thanks!

dshipman · 9th Nov 2011, 11:21 PM

If your site is just a blog, you could just install the free wptouch plugin.

WillR · 9th Nov 2011, 11:45 PM

Originally Posted by emergemma

If your site is just a blog, you could just install the free wptouch plugin.

Exactly. If it is a blog just use WP Touch if you want a cheap and easy solution.

kayetaylor · 10th Nov 2011, 05:23 AM

WillR is right.... Use mobile friendly wordpress themes and do not use heavy image/s.

StepAhead · 10th Nov 2011, 06:06 AM

Use wp touch plugin, it is totally free. It is simple and mobile friendly.

AdamRoberts · 11th Nov 2011, 11:27 PM

MobilePress is a free WordPress plugin which turns your WordPress blog into a mobile friendly blog. It also allows you to create custom mobile themes for different hand held devices and mobile browsers such as iPhone, Opera Mini and Windows Mobile.

sylarrr · 13th Nov 2011, 05:51 PM

installin plugin which turns your wordpress into mobilw website should do it, as it has been stated previously...

john pearson · 14th Nov 2011, 01:48 PM

Download WPtouch plugin and you're ready to go!

Jason X · 14th Nov 2011, 01:56 PM

I heard that WPtouch was pretty good and simple to use, I have not tried it out, I think I am going to go ahead and try it, I wonder if you have control to
customize the layout and content etc

TycoonRob · 14th Nov 2011, 02:07 PM

There are plenty of mobile templates out there, and some WP themes have a mobile option built in. The ones I've seen you need to build the mobile site instead of anything automatic, but they look pretty good.

scarab · 15th Nov 2011, 08:51 AM

Why are you wanting your mobile website to be a copy of your browser based website? I remember when the mobile website craze started on this forum awhile back. At that time the general consensus was a mobile website was not intended to be a full blown copy of your browser based website.

If you read the marketing reports and case studies they definitely show that mobile consumers are not searching for nor reading complete websites. They are looking for specific and detailed information about a business,event,services and products.

I take a different approach and use the mobile site as an exention of my clients main websites. I code them in HTML 5 which happens to be where this technology is headed. I tried several plugins that supposedly turned a WP site into a mobile site more than a year ago. Yes they can make a website mobile optimized but they were not robust enough and always lacked some functionality.

Plugins by and large are good things for wordpress because they let anyone that can click the install link add functionality to their WordPress site quickly. But I have also found them to do a lot of things very poorly. If a person can't or won't program a site then a plugin is the way to do it, but a custom developed HTML5 is much better in my opinion.

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