Marco Ryan – Travel and Landscape photography
Your proud of your blog – and justly so. You have invested time in the look and feel, the selection of and customisation of the theme and you work hard to ensure that you write engaging and frequent posts that keep the subscribers levels increasing. The theme you have chosen provides, you hope the best customer experience, and reflects to a large degree who you are and what you stand for, right?
Yet most of us are missing a trick. The standard wordpress themes are optimised to be read on the web. We provide RSS feeds so that people can read on the go, but often those feeds struggle to cope with image sizes or layout issues. So for a large percentage of our audience all that hard work around the customer experience is being squandered.
As people do more and expect more on their smartphones, so we need to find a way to provide a great customer experience on these devices.
Step forward WPtouch
WPTouch is a free plugin for wordpress that automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Opera Mini, Palm Pre and BlackBerry Storm mobile devices.
The admin panel allows you to customize many aspects of its appearance, and deliver a fast, user-friendly and stylish version of your site to your iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Opera Mini mobile, Palm Pre and BlackBerry Storm visitors without modifying a single bit of code (or affecting) your regular desktop theme.
Critically, it also includes the ability for your visitors to easily switch between the *WPtouch* view and your site’s regular theme – putting control of the customer experience back in the hands of the user.
Quite simply it is awesome. Doubly so when you consider it is free and triply so when you find out just how easy it is to configure.
You can download the plug-in from the Wordpress Codex here.
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