Twenty Eleven not displaying full page on iPhone/iPad like WordPress.com does
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When you visit the New York Times, or even WordPress.com, it displays on my iPhone and iPad exactly the same way as it does on my computer. I simply want my site to do the same.
What’s currently happening on the iPhone and iPad instead is the same effect as when I view the site on my iMac or Windows 7 PC and I make the browser window very narrow, with the content shrinking and elements wrapping.
When Safari Mobile lands on any site, it presumably discovers what the site’s natural width is, and makes sure it renders the full page, full screen. I know the various PC browsers are detecting the page’s width because I see the scrollbars at the bottom kick in when the browser’s window is progressively narrowed. For some reason the iPhone and iPad seem to be ignoring that, and are shrinking and wrapping my page’s content.
I temporarily removed my custom CSS but that made no difference, except that my little tweaks to the appearance were gone. I put the custom CSS back.
I just called several friends who have never visited the site and they’re getting the same results on their iPhones as I do on my iPhone and iPad.
It’s essential that my site renders fully just like WordPress.com does on the iPhone and iPad. Thanks so much for any help! I really do appreciate it.
Here’s the previous discussion in the forums…
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/unable-to-disable-mobile-theme-for-twenty-eleven?replies=4#post-691866
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The WordPress.com frontpage is not mobile optimized yet. Individual WordPress.com blogs are automatically showing a mobile version.
You can enable this option at ‘Appearance’ -> ‘Extras’ in your Dashboard.
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Kardotim, you did not read the first sentence of what I wrote. I am not happy. I think you might be quickly assuming I’m a newbie. Read my “about” on my blog and you will see I have 40+ years of engineering experience. Please listen carefully…
The settings in the Appearance>Extras gives me the choice of turning off mobile display adaptations, but it’s not turning things off all the way. I want it to turn things off all the way so iPhones and iPads are treated just like PCs.
Have you used an iPhone or an iPad? They do not need to ever be optimized for mobile in order to be totally usable. Please don’t take that choice away from me. The settings are there to give me a choice, but it’s not working. Thus, it seems to be an issue on WordPress.com’s end.
I don’t want to turn it on, I want to turn it OFF.
Thanks.
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This is actually part of the theme that you’re using, not the special mobile theme.
The theme itself identifies the width of the visiting screen and adjusts accordingly. The only way to stop that would be to switch to a different theme.
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Then I feel you need to change your engineering of the theme because it’s still adapting to “mobile” devices. It appears you are offering WordPress.com clients to turn off mobile adaptation, but in fact you are not fully disabling the adaptation to smaller screens. There’s no question this is a design error on WordPress’ part. I’m very unhappy about this, and I’m trying not to be angry that my site looks totally screwed up for no reason on an iPad and iPhone. This is 2011, and I’m using twenty eleven. It’s crazy.
You said that the theme identifies the width of the visiting screen but I know for an absolute fact that the HP TouchPad shows the full width, not an adaptation you enforce on iPads and iPhones. So you are not completely correct about that.
So, is there a list of themes that do not do this, or do we have to try them all one by one?
Thank you for your help. I really do appreciate the response. But please fix this design error.
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We’ll look into improving the description of the feature.
At this time, the only themes that adapt are Twenty Eleven and Quintus.
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