I’ve been experiencing a problem that I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. In an effort to make my website more mobile friendly, I purchased a mobile responsive theme. While I know I could have created a sub-domain or a directory to house the mobile version of the website, I’ve been attempting to have the original domain http://example.com switch themes based on the user. In other words, for http://example.com, Desktop user views DesktopTheme and Mobile user views MobileTheme. With the Any Mobile Theme Switcher plugin, I was able to accomplish this will little issue. However, for certain pages I would like to be able to display the desktop version to the mobile user. For example, for single posts, I would like the desktop user and the mobile user both to see the DesktopTheme.
Unfortunately, after several hours of searching and experimenting I am not further along than when I started. Using different templates appeared to be an option, but it’s not a true theme switch. When I altered the template files, mobile users received a hybrid version of the site that includes the mobile header and an unstructured version of the desktop version. A similar result was achieved when I simply copied the single.php file from DesktopTheme into the folder for MobileTheme.
Example:
<?php get_header('/var/www/html/wp-content/themes/DesktopTheme/header.php'); ?>
Any ideas?
There is a plugin that you can use for switching themes based on the post type as well as a lot of other conditions:
http://codecanyon.net/item/wordpress-theme-switcher/558740
I'm not aware of any free version that offers the same functionality, but that doesn't mean one doesn't exist.
With that said, I think you should reconsider your approach here. The entire point of responsive design is so you do not have to have separate mobile and desktop sites. I think you should sidestep this entire issue by using the responsive theme everywhere.
Using a single responsive theme is going to make maintenance much easier and give the user a more consistent experience.
Also, get_header is meant to load a header file from the current theme. You can't load components from other themes and expect them to work correctly.
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Currently developing a theme for Wordpress site which needs to have two versions of every page. The case is that the pages should differ whether browsing as one type of customer(b2b) or another(b2c). This should be controlled by a url variable.
An example of what i am trying to achieve.
www.domain.com?version=b2b - b2b frontpage
www.domain.com?version=b2c - b2c frontpage
www.domain.com - Fallback b2b frontpage
In the admin area the best solution would be having those two different frontpages connected like when using WPML or other multilingual plugins (even though i am not searching for a language plugin).
I have tried to google this case with no luck and all i cand find is the language plugins.
Looking forward for your help. I am really stuck :)
I have a Wordpress website, and the page names are listed at the top. On a PC, when I hover over some of my pages, it displays more child pages assigned to that certain page that I can click on. However, if I visit my website on a touchscreen device such as an iPad or Android device, I find it impossible to click on the child pages under the parent(I have tried holding my finger on the parent page as well). Is there any plugins that I could install to make those pages/drop down menu accessible for touchscreens? or any other solutions?
I apologize if this was hard to understand, and any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
You're going to want to use a mobile optimized theme. It can be difficult to find one that looks good at full resolution and on mobile/touch devices, they might cost money, or you might need to use your current desktop themes for other reasons. What you can do is install WPTouch which displays a special mobile/touch optimized version of your size for those users, but leaves your full desktop site theme alone. I believe this will require the least amount of effort and allow all of your content to be navigable.
Check out WPTouch here.
The broader question about building a responsive site or navigation system that works on mobile/touch as well as looks good at full screen width is probably goes beyond what you need, so I offer you this plugin. Good luck!
You might also be interested in checking out the Wordpress Stackexchange community here.
I'm trying to make some edits to a website. The website is based on a CMS and runs on PHP.
I have some html/css experience and have a thick guide to PHP into book to help me.
Among the many edits I'd like to make to the site which are out of the control from the CMS admin area, I'd like to add a Facebook link in the main nav.
Now, I would normally, if inheriting someone else's simpe HTMl/CSS site just use the inspect element feature in Chrome of FF and then see whereabout to edit the code.
Probably a classic rookie question but how does one do that with PHP? If I right click the nav on my site, how do I know which PHP file to edit? Is there a "best way" here?
Here's the site incidentally if it helps at all. I'd like to add (among many other things) a Facebook icon next to the RSS icon in the main nav. I just don't know which file to edit.
http://tinyurl.com/byal33m
This all depends on which CMS you are using. It's like asking - I have a 'word processor', how do I add an image...
You should read the documentation that comes with the CMS that you are using. It will likely explain where the files are.
Typically, CMSs usually have a core directory with contain the files that make the CMS work itself, which you wont need to edit.
Then there is a themes directory which contains the files that make up the HTML that is actually rendered and supplemented with data from the CMS. In the admin area, it usually tells you which theme you are using and where it is located.
Wordpress is a popular CMS, and their documentation explains the basics: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes
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Question relates to Ushahidi CMS which has documentation indicating theme HTML located in the 'themes' subdirectory.
https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Themes+-+Developers+Guide#Themes-DevelopersGuide-HowdoIinstallatheme%3F
I am in a critical condition. I was paying a developer in India who left the project but now I need to access the php pages.
I have explored the joomla site using the admin login but i can't find how he is displaying the html/php pages.
Please help!
I assume you're looking for the front-end template for the website.
Using FTP or whatever control panel go to the Joomla folder, look for a folder called templates - it should be one of the folders in there.
To check what the name of the current template is, go to the admin panel and look in the template menu.
If your developer has also made any custom components, the front-end part would be somewhere in the components folder, and the backend bit would be in administrator->components.
You need to read some Joomla tutorials. There are many places that can be used to "display the html/php".
First you have the template files that determine how the site looks and what module positions are available to be used. Generally there is one template in use but there can be multiples.
Next you will have components where the content is entered. At a minimum it is likely that you are using the com_content (articles/categories) and it is very likely there are others being used.
You will also have various modules that will display content in areas outside of the main content area. This will generally include menus, login forms, and other similar content.
Last, plugins can also have an effect on the content. In some cases plugins inject content and in others they replace placeholders with content.
There are a lot of pieces to the puzzle that all come together to display the resulting web page, it's not just a simple question of accessing some files.
After some solid advice from people on here about using WordPress for a small (six page) website, I wanted to broach another question regarding using WordPress for a non-blogging site. Yet, I know my client would like to update various, but small portions of their site from time-to-time.
I won't be installing WP in the root, but a sub-directory and have all my core site files sitting in the root.
Here are my questions:
Can I include content from Pages in WordPress and output that content on any page outside of the WP install directory? Is there something specific I would need to include?
Do I have to use a Theme or can I still use my already built CSS?
I'd like to be able to use my own CSS for the site and not have it be tied to a Theme - is that possible? Meaning I use www.example.com/css/styles.css vs www.example.com/wp-content/themes/styles.css.
I also have a slider comprised of three DIVs for each panel, can I pull in that specific Page with that markup for the slider?
Can I also make my own queries for data as well?
Is there anything that I won't be able to accomplish or advise against doing?
I'm mostly concerned about having to use a Theme, mostly because I don't know if I'll need to use it or not.
Thanks for any help.
Lots of docs available:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Giving_WordPress_its_Own_Directory_While_Leaving_the_WordPress_Index_File_in_the_Root_Directory
and
http://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website , where you pull pages/posts from the WP loop into your existing design, CSS, etc.
You will need to link necessary JS files in the site.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts will show you how to make your own queries.