Mobile Version
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I can’t seem to get my mobile version to work? I use an iphone 5 but my blog is not producting a mobile version when viewed via the browser. The tablet is the same. It used to work but something has changed. Any suggestions?
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Hi Adam,
The Newsworthy theme has a mobile version as part of the theme now, so it will look mostly the same as the desktop view. The major difference will be in the upper-right of the screen, you’ll see a small three-lined icon for the menu that you can click on to expand it, versus the navigation menu along the top. Additionally, your widgets on the right-side, will drop below the content when being viewed on smaller devices.
In viewing your site on a few different devices, each showed this view. Are you not seeing the Menu icon when viewing your site?
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Thanks for replying. I do see what you mention but I have to say the mobile version of WordPress is not what used to be. It’s not made for the actual device. The fonts do not expand or the page does render to a true mobile version. For example my blog http://www.21stdolores.com also changed and not what it used to be? I used to have an actual mobile version. I have tried a number of themes but nothing seems to be right. What I seem to have now is just web page version. Has something changed in your development stack?
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Hi Adam,
With your adamgood.net site, the theme is what’s known as “mobile responsive” in the industry. Currently, that type is the preferred way to present mobile moving forward as it actually rearranges content to fit any width device (be it an older iPhone, to a tablet, to a television—although most sites aren’t designing for 80″ TVs yet). Additionally, it matches the design of the desktop site so users, in theory, know they’re on the right site if they’ve visited before because of the consistent design elements.
Your http://21stdolores.com site’s theme is not mobile responsive and is displaying the “mobile version” (for me on a Google Nexus 4 Android phone). In that case, if the device being used is one in an internal list (say, iPhone, Blackberry), a completely different website is displayed with the content from your site that is sized for mobile. This is the way it had been done for quite some time before the evolving mobile responsive concept came to the forefront. From what I can tell, I don’t see a recent change that would have changed the way this site should behave on mobile devices.
As far as timing of changes, looking through the changelog for the theme you’re using on adamgood.net, I see some tweaks to the mobile responsive portion that would be applied for smaller phones, including the iPhone, was made three months ago. Do you have a sense of when this change may have happened and I’ll dig deeper into the changes near that time.
I hope that frames the situation a bit more for you and I’m happy to keep digging. Thanks!
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