Released: Mobile Smart Plugin for Wordpress v0.2

Released: Mobile Smart Plugin for WordPress v0.2

March 22nd, 2010

Version 0.2 has just been released of the Mobile Smart plugin, which is a plugin to help mobile site development in WordPress.

Download through the WordPress.org plugin repository: http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mobile-smart/ (note: link will open in new window/tab).

Mobile Smart currently contains the following functionality:

Switch your theme to a mobile-ready theme if a mobile device is detected
New: Manual Switcher – to allow your user to manually switch between desktop and mobile versions. Available in 3 versions: widget, option to automatically insert into footer, or template tag.
Template functions to help determine which tier of mobile device (touch/smartphone/other) is viewing your site, to allow conditional content inclusion.
Adds device and tier specific CSS selectors to the body_class, to allow conditional CSS (e.g. so in the same way you have “.single” that you can target “.iphone” or “.mobile-tier-touch”.)

Any feedback gladly welcomed.

Tags: iPhone, mobile smart, theme switcher, Wordpress

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Istvan says:

15 April 2010 at 14:02

Hi, I have found an error in vers. 2.1.25 at line 297 in mobile-smart.php
“__e” should be replaced with “__” or the plugin won’t save the options.

Anyway I have fixed that error but accessing my website from Safari (with iPhone user agent) it shows me the default theme. Any idea?

Dan says:

15 April 2010 at 15:24

Thanks Istvan, your debugging is much appreciated. I’ll incorporate this in a fix release shortly.

Accessing the website from Safari was having problems as the switcher had missed a case and assumed you were also using the footer switcher. I’ve added a fix for that too, and will release this updated version shortly.

Many thanks for your feedback,

Dan

18 April 2010 at 17:19

Hi! I have tested the new version but I’m unable to see the switcher. I have tried it both from the option in the admin panel and inserting the php code in my theme but none showed the link to the mobile version.

To be honest, I have tried it on a site with Cache enabled but also after many minutes (when cache should have expired) it doesn’t show the link.

You can maybe install here on you site so we can see how it works… a sort of live demo.

P.S. in the readme file the is a ‘?’ missing at the end of the php code.

5 May 2010 at 14:20

Thanks again Istvan for your active feedback and participation in this plugin.

Can you let me know which options you enabled to add the switcher?

I’ve now got the plugin installed on this site – you can see that currently I have a small bug on the site (rather than with the plugin) when it comes to the blog (I’ve left this bug in deliberately for the moment) – this bug shows that the “Switch to mobile version” link usually appears in the footer, but because of a lack of a cleared div, it pops up at the bottom of the right sidebar – this is sometimes the cause of the problem.

You can also see that it is implemented inside a div with the id of “mobilesmart_switcher” – you can view the source of your page to show whether it is appearing in there.

Otherwise, I’m guessing it may be related to the cache.

Hope this helps – feel free to come back with any responses,

5 May 2010 at 14:23

PS I’ve fixed the readme file also, should appear soon in the 0.2.1 version.

Dan Smart - Web Developer