How To: Mobile-ize Your WordPress Site

[djbaxter]

How To: Mobile-ize Your WordPress Site
May 7th, 2011 by Wilder

I recently set-up a mobile version of my WordPress driven blog, located at Professional Web Developer, Designer - Wordpress Theme Design - Ottawa, Canada - Wilder Tweedale Web Design - Blog. I currently have it set up so that my blog detects whether or not a user is visiting the page on a mobile device, and if it is, it loads a mobile-friendly theme rather than the default one. The process of setting this up was very easy and painless, as you?ll read about in a second.

First off, I downloaded and installed a great WordPress plugin called BAAP Mobile Version which allows you to both a) load a different theme for users browsing on mobile devices or b) Redirect mobile device users to another URL using domain mapping. Or so it says; I didn?t actually try that domain mapping out.

Then I downloaded the open source WordPress theme Carrington Mobile and proceeded to create a simple child theme for it (For an explanation of what Child themes are and how they work, see my other post).

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[Linda Buquet]

FYI I've been doing a ton of research on this WP theme, which auto senses mobile devices and switches to mobile.

But the MAIN reason I've been researching is I've been seeing some sites that get crazy high rankings with this theme.

WordPress Theme for Small Business Websites – The Expand2Web SmallBiz WordPress Theme | The Expand2Web Blog

Plus I know the owner, plus they have an aff prog.
So just passing it on in case it's of interest to you or your son.