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I put this code in the header.php within my active theme to test it out and it works perfectly on iPad and iPhone. I know the proper way to do this would be to make a child theme and put this code in a header.php file within the child theme, but for testing purposes this works.

This is a good reference:

http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-create-ios-device-home-screen-icons-for-web-sites/

It turns our there are apps for creating the icons at the appropriate resolutions. Search the app store. I did mine in photoshop.

In addition this is the code I found to customize the description that the “add to home screen” button provides by default. I think this solution will only work with iOS6 or above. Also you are limited to 12 characters. Replace “short name” with your 12 character name for the home screen

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="Short Name">

This is where I found this code:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3400741/setting-home-screen-icon-name-for-mobile-safari

Okay – I think I might have figured something out! I think there is a conflict between WordPress Mobile Edition and WP Super Cache. If I deactivate Super Cache then everything seems fine with Mobile Edition. There also seems to be a distinction between turning caching off within the Super Cache plugin and actually deactivating the plugin altogether. Only turning disabling cacheing but leaving the plugin active seems to disable to option of coming back to the mobile site once you have exited it. I can only restore full functionality of Mobile Edition by totally deactivating Super Cache.

This is a bummer because I really desire the functionality of both plugins.

I am also looking for solutions to styling the fields in the plugin. I’ve done some inspecting and many of the elements have pretty generic id’s and classes – not very CSSable. I had an idea about wrapping the whole plugin in a DIV with a specific class to at least get better control of table elements and such, but so far it hasn’t worked too well.

I am also trying to figure this out – same exact problem.