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Mobile Theme V1 Device Display

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EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
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I made a new Artisteer V4 responsive theme for the site. And made this quick video to show y’all what I’m seeing on my Samsung Galaxy S3.

http://youtu.be/CID-Al8epMM

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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Those issues you showed are all with your wp theme… I would hesitate to call that a responsive theme…  its the wp theme choice to load your wp widgets like that…  its the wp theme that controls the entire page layout before the forum and after the forum (this includes headers, footers and sidebars)… we dont interact with that…  what you can try to do though is load a different page template… see the option on forum – themes – mobile phone theme…  you can tell us to load a different page template that might not have any sidebars… this would only be for mobile phone…  you might have to create this alternate wp page template if you wp theme does not provide one..

that reloading stuff has nothing to do with sp…   there is no determine what device and reload that occurs in sp…  its just a different sp theme loaded…  this occurs within wp as the forum page is loaded…  we just load our theme… no reloading needed or done…

why firefox beta?  better to use the stable release…

oh, the one thing  you mentioned that we are involved in is that bit of white space you referenced…  its not really white space per se… see that icon to the far right?  couldnt tell what it was, but you have a plugin adding some content at the bottom of the post it appears…  its right aligned, so the far left looks empty, but its really a whole row…  and as always you could tweak the sp theme css to add/remove/change styling as desired…

thanks for the feedback!

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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I am curious about the WP theme loading as desktop and then switching – which IS what it looks like. This is an oddity indeed. WP has determined (as much as it is possible) what sort of device is making the request prior to loading the theme files which suggests that it is something within the way the theme works. Not good. It will also add loading time if it has to go back and make a redirected http request.

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
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Hi guys, I gave up going mobile for the time being.

Artisteer just started responsive theme design in their V4 version, and obviously they have a ways to go. I like the program for building desktop themes. I’m using menu urls to link to the various sp forums I have installed. That explains the switching when selecting a forum from the header menu. Your site is working perfect, i’m on the S3 now. Going to contact artisteer tomorrow about the problem with their theme generator. Will let y’all know what I find out. Once again thanks for all your help.

 

 

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
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Came up with a quick solution. Artisteer is a bomb in mobile responsive design. Downloaded an updated V4 application but ho help. It makes a good desktop theme, in my humble opinion.

I installed the free WpTouch mobile theme plugin, then activated sp’s mobile theme. Walla.. Works like a charm!

Thanks again for all y’all’s help! wink

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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good news.  mobile touch is able to make some themes responsive but not all…