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Our First Mobile Theme Gets an Airing

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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sp-on-phoneWe know! – our mobile theme development has been dragging on and on for a long time. Partly this is because of the support that we have also needed to build in to our Simple:Press plugins. But it has also had a lot to do with the long, long overdue release of WordPress 3.6 which has slipped by a couple months and is still in a beta state.

However, if you are reading this then we will now be using our mobile theme on our own site here which is still the first port of call for testing what we will call our alpha 1 version. This is currently capable of running our core and all of the plugins that we ourselves use with the single exception of Private Messaging which is still undergoing an overhaul for both desktop and mobile.

Our first step on this long road took place a few weeks back when we adopted our ‘responsive’ WordPress theme which bought our site under mobile control and now we are addressing the support forum. Our forum theme does need, of course, an appropriately responsive WordPress theme foundation for it to function on all devices.

Now that it is on our site, we hope to get to a beta stage fairly quickly (still needs to be post WP 3.6 release) so a few users can try it out. We are, of course, looking for any and all feedback – good and bad. The theme is named ‘Unified’ and will be a theme with multiple overlays and an easy way to create custom versions.

If you would like to comment on the theme – point out an error or problem or even just ask a question about it – please follow the link from this post to the forum topic. But first – please do load up the browser on your mobile phone and take a look.

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CA Carlos
Carlos
Member

Just at this moment I was creating a new topic asking for the mobile theme… but you solved all 

 

thanks

CA Carlos
Carlos
Member

Just writing with My mobile. A Nexus 4. Testing… I like 

This!!!

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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Thank you! Slowly I think we are getting there!

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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As it says in the blog post… we plan and hope to get a beta available very soon. Hopefully that really will not be long but it WILL be after WordPress get 3.6 released – and that is now about 2 months past it’s schedule so that can’t be too much longer. We hope!

It needs WP 3.6 because it will also need Simple:Press version 5.3 which is waiting to go with the WP release.

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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wp devs today said they should hit RC on Friday….  so only should be few more weeks…

RS Richard Lander Stow
Richard Lander Stow
Member

Good stuff. I can’t wait for a version to put on my site. I’ve just downloaded worpress 3.6, so it’s finally in the wild. My users are all keen for the mobile theme.

Keep up the good work.

Cheers

Richard

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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have you tried viewing this support site with a mobile…  the alpha is running here…

if all goes well, should have beta on mobile theme available within couple weeks or so…

JM Jan Goergen-makinson
Jan Goergen-makinson
Member

Mr Papa said
have you tried viewing this support site with a mobile…  the alpha is running here…

if all goes well, should have beta on mobile theme available within couple weeks or so…

Looks great. Can’t wait to try this mobile theme out. Will keep checking back forupdates and   releases

 

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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I think we said within 4 weeks of the release of 5.3.0 and we are in target for that. Of course within 4 weeks might mean 3 weeks and 6 days :)

JM Jan Goergen-makinson
Jan Goergen-makinson
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Yellow Swordfish said
I think we said within 4 weeks of the release of 5.3.0 and we are in target for that. Of course within 4 weeks might mean 3 weeks and 6 days :)

… And 23 hours :)

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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the main thing left to do is not the theme itself… by private messaging…  it needs a complete facelift to work for mobile…  if plan holds, I will finish it this weekend and then we can get to making it work mobile and we should be about ready…