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TOP WordPress Plugins for Mobile Optimization

More and more people are employing tablets and smartphones each day across the world.
Actually, its predicted that by the finish of 2014, more people will be making use of their mobile
deices to e!plore the web as opposed to desktop "nternet. #ail to know the power of the mobile
market, and you surely will miss a chance on opportunities big and small to arrie at a bigger
market of patrons.
#ortunately for you, its not as technically demanding as you might initially think to optimi$e
your website for mobile use. %onsider the following top plugins to get your &ord'ress website
up to par with the rest of the mobile(ready web.
)o make website handier for mobile uses, the spotlight is in the following areas*
Offering mobile-optimized design and content: )his means ensuring the website fits
smaller screens suitably, seres up content to mobile users in a clear way, and offers
usability for touch(controlled browsers.
Quick loading time: Mobile "nternet is not as +uick as wifi or broadband, thus anything
that slows down your websites loading time can cause untimely abandonment and must
be aoided.
As a result the plugins on the list focus on these areas.
Theme Switchers
&hile the plugins in this class do not offer plug(and(play solutions, they let you to serer your
mobile isitors with custom themes. )his is helpful if you either do not hae a responsie theme,
do not like the responsie edition of your theme or want to make additional mobile(precise
changes to your website.
! "n# Mobile Theme Switcher
)he plugin Any Mobile )heme ,witcher will sense mobile browsers and serer a pre(defined
theme to users accessing your website by means of their tablet. "t supports an e!tensie range of
deices from i-, and Android oer .lackberry and &indows phones to less fre+uent deices. A
different theme can be chosen for each browser to tailor the user e!perience further.
A pro edition is obtainable which offers different home pages for different deices, /0(code
bookmarking, adding 1click(to(call phone numbers and maintaining the &2 total cache plugin.
$! Mobile Smart
Mobile ,mart senses whether a mobile user is accessing your site and will e!hibit a preferred
design from your current themes. ,upported deices take in i'ad, i'hone, .lackberry, Android,
&indows 'hone and oer.
3sers can also be gien the choice to switch between the standard and mobile theme manually.
,ince Mobile ,mart is a theme switcher and not a plugin that complements mobile capabilities or
any sort of customi$ation, you will hae to build your own mobile website edition.
Mobile Theme Plugins
)hese plugins gie unusually good mobile themes. )he themes hae been built keeping in mind
mobile use and hence are lightweight and +uick. %ontent is fre+uently reduced to bare minimums
and do not share the appearance of the original theme from the get go.
! WP Touch
&hen it comes to mobile solutions for &ord'ress, &' )ouch eidently leads the list with more
than 4 million downloads. )he plugin restores your site with an attractie, content(centric mobile
theme. )he outcome is easy to use, loads +uick, and is simple to read.
&' )ouch arries in a free and paid ersion. &ith 5.auhaus,6 the free edition of the plugin gies
only one mobile theme. "t enables basic customi$ation 7 like changing colors, language
detection, and typography 7 to suit your custom code, brand, and additional styling choices.
"n the paid ersion, you hae an option between 8 themes intended for different re+uirements and
websites. "t also gies a mobile caching option, support for responsie images in addition to the
opportunity to post ads and A9. split test them.
&hats special about this plugin is how simple it is to install. -nce turned on, your site will be
routinely optimi$ed for mobile users, without altering any settings. :isitors are also offered the
option to switch between the mobile(only website and your usual theme.
'aid accounts begin at ;4< each year for single(site users. A solution for minimum = websites in
addition to agency and enterprise ersions are obtainable and charge ;<<, ;1<< and ;24<
correspondingly.
$! iThemes Mobile
)he i)hemes mobile plugin is a best(only choice without a free edition, "t gies four
customi$able themes to show your posts and pages and also gies the opportunity to build your
own. >ou can alter the styling of headlines, fonts, naigation menus and pick a custom, mobile(
only header image.
&hats ery appealing is that i)hemes mobile lets you to allot different themes to different
podiums. )hat means you can tailor your site for i-, and Android users and alter its appearance
across a ariety of deices.
)he functionality of i)hemes mobile is stripped down to bare fundamentals. ,how of sidebars
and widget areas is unluckily not supported natiely. More superior users can put in those by
customi$ing obtainable theme files. ?oweer, if you are competent enough, then you might
decide on coding your own responsie theme instead.
'ricing begins at ;4= for personal bloggers, or single(site owners with business and deeloper
licenses wearing price tags of ;8= and ;1=0.
%! &etpack Mobile Theme
)he best feature in @etpack is the analytics. "t is chocked full of other handy plugins, together
with a mobile theme.
-ne turned on the dashboard, the theme gies a clean, organi$ed interface, which makes it
simple for mobile isitors to e!amine your website. )he makers also took good care to make it
lightweight in order to ensure prompt(loading times.
%ustomi$ation features of the @etpack mobile theme take in e!hibiting +uotes or full ersion of
posts, custom header images, and custom menus in addition to backgrounds. >ou can een put in
your own css to regulate the appearance of the theme entirely. @etpack will e!hibit a sidebar for
mobile users, unlike other solutions.
As part of the @etpack plugin collection, this solution is at no cost and obtainable in the
&ord'ress plugin directory.
'! WP Mobile (etector Mobile Plugin
&hile it is an e!cellent +uestion why its name consists of the word 1mobile two times, the &'
Aetector Mobile 'lugin is the sole option on this list that will differentiate between regular
smartphones and cellphones, and offer a different website ersion for all. "t also tracks access to
your site from both types of mobile deices.
)he plugin takes in 8 mobile themes, which feature touch(optimi$ed layouts, widgets, collapsible
menus and oer, but are +uite basic in general. 'icking one of your offered themes for mobile
users is also feasible. )he plugins 3B can be little confusing and it consists of ads for the pro
ersion.
)he free edition of this plugin is accepted among users and has been downloaded nearly 240,000
times. A pro edition is obtainable starting at ;=0.
)ontent Optimizers
! WP Mobile (etect
)his plugin is pretty different from the rest on the list. &hile &' Mobile Aetect also senses
mobile deices to sere up different content for them, its approach is different than employing a
mobile(specific theme. "nstead, the plugin offers a wide range of shortcode, which can be
employed to decide which part of content is showed for what kind of deice.
)his way you can take in or rule out parts of the content for phones, desktops or tablets. )he
plugin een goes so far as to let model(specific rules so that parts of your website will, for
instance, only be eident in i'ads.
"f employed together with a responsie theme, this can be relatiely useful. -ne of the maCor
points of criticism of these themes in contrast to mobile(specific solutions is their si$e. Den
though a responsiely(designed theme will follow the smaller screen si$e, it can still be
significantly bigger than a theme aimed directly at mobile deices.
&' mobile detect allows you keep out those parts of your content that may otherwise block up
your mobile users bandwidth and lead them to abandon your website before time. )he plugins
shortcodes offer substantial fle!ibility to customi$ing your website to a deice or podium.
Media Optimizers
"mages and media generally frame the bulk of a sites load. "f you choose against using any of
the aboe mentioned solutions, it is a good thought to at least optimi$e this sort of content thus
reducing your mobile isitors bandwidth re+uirements.
! WP Smush!it
)his plugin &' ,mush.it, which is managed by &'M3 AD:, links your website to >ahoos
,mush.it image reduction serice. )he serice minimi$es the si$e of your images by shredding
away needless information.
"mages fre+uently contain countless e!tra data 7 like gps coordinates, kind of camera used, and
creation date 7 which diide up their si$e and are of no significance to your sites users.
)he plugin will run inoluntarily in the background and optimi$e images as they are uploaded.
%urrent media files can be optimi$ed in batch. "t is a 5lossless6 tool, which implies the images
will not alter their appearance or isual +uality.
$! *WWW +mage Optimizer
"n addition to haing one of the top plugin names eer, D&&& image optimi$er will routinely
optimi$e images uploaded to your site by changing them to the file format that will generate the
smallest si$e. %onse+uently, pages will load +uicker and employ less bandwidth.
-ptimi$ation in olume for accessible media is feasible and the plugin keeps in mind which
images hae been processed earlier so they wont be optimi$ed again. .y default, the serice
employs lossless procedures but lossy optimi$ation is also obtainable. "t also works with most
general image gallery plugins.
%! ,& -az# -oad
#or those who do not know, sluggish loading means that rather than downloading all media on a
page from the start, media files and images will only be loaded on demand when they become
noticeable on screen. )hat way the early loading si$e Eand timeF of a gien page or post can be
considerably minimi$ed without any damage for the iewer.
.@ Ga$y Goad is a plugin, which offers this trait. "t substitutes all your post thumbnails, post
images, graatar images, and content iframes along with placeholders and loads the content
simply when isitors scroll the page. )he secreted content will be loaded when it gets near to the
browser window. )he plugin also routinely seres scaled down images for responsie deign.
PS
)o get back to the start* "f you fre+uently find yourself in conersations that are blocked by
mobile phone use, a cool way to make your social assemblies less mobile(centric is to hae each
one put their deices in a heap of the tablet at the beginning.
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