Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress – Version 1.4 Released
Posted by Rich Gubby on August 17, 2009 at 4:07 pmFiled under: Mobile Internet, Mobile Plugins, Wordpress Mobile
After a number of releases of the mobile plugin for WordPress, you’d think I’d want to put my feet up for a bit and have a well deserved rest and a cup of tea. But not a bit of it! I’ve been burning the midnight oil to get version 1.4 ready for release so that you have even more control and even more ways to mobilize your blog.
I’ve had plenty of positive feedback from users of the plugin as well as some great suggestions for new features and functionality and have done my best to try to incorporate all of them. A few have inevitably fallen by the way side for this version, but rest assured, any ideas you provide have or will be logged, categorized, filed in an important folder and put on the roadmap for future releases.
So without further ado, here are the features that have made it into version 1.4
Major Improvements
- Removed dependency for SOAP. The Plugin now falls back to REST services to those without SOAP installed.
- Compatibility with WordPress 2.8.4
- Speed improvements. I’ve analyzed the core code and squeezed a little so your mobile pages load faster.
- Fix for foreign characters. WordPress handles posts just fine, but it doesn’t play that nicely with pages and titles. There are now measures in place to handle all character maps on mobile.
- Added the option to switch to the mobile version of the site if you’re using the website. You could already switch from mobile to web, but now you can go both ways.
Minor Improvements
- Captions – they are a pain as they aren’t a standard HTML tag, but no matter, they should be handled for mobile a bit better in this version. Oh, and there is a class applied to the caption too so it’s styleable.
- Fixed strange bold tags appearing. The text editor in WP sometimes adds an extra strong tag – a bit of cleanup takes place now to handle this.
- Added option: Show tags on a post page.
- Added support for characters in your footer so you can have a copyright symbol for example – read more about that at wapl.info.
- Added options: Transparency colour on images. You now have ability to specify which colour you want as the background for an image wherever it appears on your site.
- Support for smiley images. Tiny smiley images (and tiny logos) shouldn’t be scaled up to fit the screen – in version 1.4 they don’t.
- Added option: Different post page header image. Once you’re in your site and looking at posts, you might want a slightly different, maybe smaller image at the top of your page, you’ve got the option to upload one in the control panel.
- Better support for bold, italic and underline text. It’s a WP editor issue again that hopefully has been resolved.
- Added classes so you can style homepage excerpts – a must if you want some sort of divider between posts.
What’s next?
Version 1.5 is being planned even as I write this post. In fact, version 2.0 has already had a bit of thought put into it. But keep those ideas coming as the community at large is becoming the driving force behind new functionality and it’s great to see! Get in touch and let us know what you think!
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August 17th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
[...] The latest release of the WordPress mobile plugin is out now (version 1.4), have a read of the full feature list and the new REST web service support in an article over at Mobile Web Junkie. [...]
September 16th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Whoa i think i under estimated your plugin! Will review it soon enough! BTW good work