Using WordPress to power your website and/or blog is a wise move in our books. A lot of our customers spend a lot of time making sure their website is constantly up to date, and their blog packed full of useful information for their visitors.
Themes are tweaked to perfection and images resized for optimal display. But what happens when your visitors go mobile?
Is your site ready for the ever increasing amount of surfing that’s taking place on mobile devices? At RX Host, we’re guilty, of not having an optimised for mobile version of our site at all. That doesn’t mean you should follow suit.
Take a look at your analytics (contact us if you’re not sure what analytics are!) and you’ll more than likely see an increasing number of visits from mobile devices. The bounce rate and other stats will give you an indication as to how (un)friendly your site is on mobile devices too.
So what can we do to get your content to the new generation of mobile web surfers? Install a plugin of course! Both plugins below are free 🙂
WP TOUCH
WP Touch is really common on WordPress blogs and you’ll find it on a wide range of sites. More likely to be on blog centric sites than others, but if your content is mainly on your blog, then it’s a great plugin to use. Just make sure that if you’re a business and people use their mobile devices to access your site, that your contact details, including phone number is clearly visible, even on your mobile theme!
You can customise WP touch from your admin area and the theme even allows visitors to switch between “mobile” and “desktop” views whilst they’re on the go. The best of both worlds!
WP Touch is free, but there is a paid option too. The link above gives more info.
MOBIUS
Mobius resembles a normal WordPress theme in scaled down format. It comes with a few different styles, and hopefully one will suit your sites mobile needs.
Don’t forget, to use some plugins, you’ll need to get some WordPress Hosting and self host your site. We love hosting WordPress sites and would be more than happy to give help and advice about WordPress and web hosting in general.
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