How to Create a Mobile Friendly Wordpress Site with WPtap

May 14, 2010 - PRLog -- Mobile devices have become an important tool to visit website. So it is essential to make a PC website optimized on mobile devices, such as iPhone, iPod Touch, touch-based Blackberry, and Android smartphones. WPtap is offering such a solution for you. WPtap is a WordPress specialist in developing mobile themes/plugins that can instantly convert your WordPress site into web-application experience when viewed from iPhone, iPod Touch, touch-based Blackberry, and Android smartphones.

With WPtap, it is easy to make your website mobile-ready. Now the following steps can guide you create a mobile site. (You must Have a webhost capable of running WordPress 2.3 or higher (PHP 4/5 Supported); Have FTP access (if you’re not using WordPress 2.5 or newer) to install the theme plugin folder)

Firstly, you should download WPtap plugin from WordPress Plugin site, once downloaded, unzip the folder somewhere on your computer where you’ll have easy access to it. When you unzip it, you should see the ‘wptap’ folder.

Next, upload the entire ‘wptap’ folder to the WordPress ‘your site/wp-content/plugins’ directory on your webserver (Please note: It is under the ‘plugins’ folder, not the ‘themes’ directory!)

Once uploaded visit your WordPress admin panel in your web browser. Navigate to the ‘Plugins’ tab, and activate the WPtap Mobile Themes plugin. All available WPtap themes can be located under ‘~/wp-content/wptap/themes’ directory. For example, you will see ‘News Press’ and ’News Gallery’ folders in this folder if you have installed both themes.

Your site now is equiped with WPtap News Press (black), and is mobile ready.

If you have already installed WPtap on your site and would like to add/remove other WPtap themes (as we develop more amazing-looking themes), simply find the theme package and upload it to (or remove it from) the ‘~/wp-content/wptap/themes’ directory. The theme will be automatically added to/removed from the drop-down theme list on your WPtap control panel.

An easier way to manage themes on your site is through the ‘Theme Management’ at WPtap Admin Panel, where you can add or remove your WPtap themes.

WPtap offers both free and paid themes.4 fine-designed themes are available at WPtap:
1.   Tap News ($49.99): Tap News theme is the first iPhone App style mobile theme developed by WPtap. The theme features elegant iPhone-style sliding layout, and it will truly turn your site into an iPhone application. Other features include thumbnail pictures, full support for twitter, social bookmarking, and email.It is a great choice for News bloggers, and it is a perfect alternative to an iPhone or Andorid application for your site.

2.   Video Tube ($39.99): Video Tube theme is specifically designed for video blogging and content sharing on your mobile site. It fully supports iPhone/iPod Touch, Android, and touch-based Blackberry devices.With all WordPress features and customized insertion functions, it makes adding Youtube and MP4 videos to your mobile site exetremely easy!

3.   News Gallery ($49.99): News Gallery theme is designed with the photography blogger in mind featuring frontpage slideshow, thumbnail picture, and gallery style layout options. It is the perfect choice for image-centric and magazine style WordPress websites.It comes with six stylish colors designed to fit your sites’ unique profile and style.

4.   News Press (Free): News Press theme is a simple and elegant solution for creating an iPhone-friendly News, Blog, and other text-centric WordPress sites.  It comes complete with all the standard WordPress blog features: search, login, categories, tags, archives, photos & more. It also offers many customization features through a user-friendly WordPress admin panel. It will instantly turn your WordPress site into a mobile application experience.

What’s more, WPtap Pages is another advanced new design from WPtap. WPtap Pages is the integration of Plugin and theme. WPtap Pages mobile theme features WordPress Pages, and only Pages on Home page. With features like elegant slideshow and thumbnail images, it makes a perfect choice for directory listing and product showcases. Three different theme styles are included in this theme/plugin package. It is only $49.99 now.

They also provide theme customization service for users. So far, they have got a lot of positive feedback from customers. More Plugin and Themes will be available later.

More information at www.wptap.com.

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About WPtap
WPtap.com is a child company of PPL Development LLC. Based in Nevada US, the company has been a pioneer in mobile application development for Symbian, BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android platform since 2005. Our stated mission is to make everyone’s website mobile-ready. Our team has strong expertise in mobile website/application design and development, and has accumulated extensive experience in multi-mobile-platform integrations. Our unique technical background enables us to develop top quality cross-platform mobile solutions for your websites.