wouldn’t your mobile theme just require a page.php made for mobile browsers?
My understanding, as a relative newcomer to WP, is that I have access to things like title, date, content, author, etc from a page. I could try and massage the desktop-oriented page using page.php in my mobile theme, but what I want to do is basically grab a whole DIFFERENT page (or at least content), and show that. There’s just no way I can make a desktop-oriented page look as good as I’d like on a mobile browser.
Hmm… I’m not sure I fully understand. Grabbing different content would be difficult for sure….
I have a whole separate theme with the basics like
header.php
index.php
page.php
single.php
footer.php
using standard WP template tags, etc….
All packaged up, designed for a mobile device. I could activate it like a normal theme, and it works…. looks darn silly on a desktop though.
But I use a switcher plugin like you talk about to call that theme for mobile devices. So its a separate inactive theme in my theme directory only called for mobiles
Is that how yours is set up?
I used to redirect to a mobile subdomain using a plugin, and had a website setup, just calling in portions of WP with includes, etc…but that got unwieldy and silly
EDIT…. I obviously also have a style.css stylesheet in there, oops
The good Reverend has a point.
Another approach is to use a mobile stylesheet for your page template, if you’re handy at CSS. After coding your CSS, you would add this type of thing to your Page Template (or possibly Header template, depending on your theme):
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://mattwelch.com/mobile.css" type="text/css" media="handheld" />
Non-mobile browsers will ignore it (note “handheld” in there), so this would be pretty clean.
Cheers, Dave
Reverend, my setup is exactly as yours. The problem is that I basically want different content for the pages in a mobile browser than one would get in a desktop browser.
Dave, CSS would be a good alternative, if a) I were proficient at it, b) I didn’t want almost completely different content than I have now.
I have a product page that is quite detailed and full of screenshots, etc. I can’t imagine ANY CSS that would get that down to where I need it (including removing and resizing photos, culling and rearranging text, and other such things). That’s why I’d like to basically create a whole different “page” and have that show up when a mobile user goes to the “master” page’s url.
Thanks for all the input.
Ah, now I see what you are after. Didn’t grasp the concept. I’ll have to bow out on this one…..
My products page only uses one image per product. So I use a product custom post type. One post per product. One image per product, so I use the featured image for it
Then my products page is a page template displaying the products in grid view. For my mobile sheet I display them in list view and am able to call different sized featured images.
But I’m honestly not sure what to do for your situation…. I’m pretty new to doing mobile stuff at all……
Oh, yeah, I didn’t get that at all, either. I have no idea how to do that, although I can in MODx. 🙂 I’ll bow out of that – I avoid ecommerce with WP.
Good luck.
Came up with a way to do this. I installed mobble and exec_php. With exec_php, I can run php on my pages. So I can use php’s if/endif to define sections for mobile and desktop. And I use mobble to find out whether the browser is a mobile or desktop browser. Works pretty well.
Matt –
Can you post an example of your code that you are using to hide the different parts? Maybe post your if else code or elaborate a bit more on the process that you are using?
Would really appreciate it.
Thanks.
