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September 23, 2016 — By WPTouch Admin

WPtouch Pro Theme Update: Bauhaus 2.0!

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Today we released a major update to our flagship and most popular theme, Bauhaus. In 2.0, you can now choose between different layouts, starting with our new carousel view.

Carousel View

3In Carousel View you can show an infinite horizontal carousel which loads your posts chronologically, allowing visitors quick access to your entire post content history in a single page view.

You can also choose to show Featured Posts, and Popular Posts carousels as well.

Visitors have dozens and dozens of posts available at their fingertips instantly with Bauhaus 2.

6Full-Bleed Carousel

Want your beautiful featured images to be showcased in full-bleed? No problem. Bauhaus 2 allows you to showcase your posts in an infinite loading horizontal carousel view, filling the display of your visitor’s mobile device. The smooth, kinetic carousel lets your visitors browse your content in an immersive, engaging and unique way.

1List View

Bauhaus 2 also still supports its standard list view, which showcases your posts vertically, with an optional featured posts carousel above— which has been updated both under the hood to be more performant and with a refreshed look and feel.

List view is perfect if you don’t use featured images, or have a mix of content types.

Smart Loading

Across the board in all layouts we’ve enhanced lazy loading of both posts and images, making significant speed and performance improvements.

 

Available Today

Bauhaus 2.0 is a free update for all existing customers, and included with every bundle of WPtouch Pro.

September 23, 2016 — By WPTouch Admin

Announcing the New Power Pack Extension for WPtouch Pro

Today we released a new extension for WPtouch Pro: Power Pack. Power Pack combines several of the previous features of the Infinity Cache and Responsive Images extensions, and adds several great new features to increase the responsiveness of your mobile website. In addition to mobile page caching and responsive mobile images, Power Pack also allows you to distribute and serve your content from a content delivery network of your choice. It will also perform intelligent concatenation and minification of your entire mobile website, further increasing the responsiveness of your website.

If you’re looking to increase the speed of your mobile website or your Google Pagespeed score, make sure to grab a copy of the Power Pack extension for WPtouch Pro, available today.

August 3, 2016 — By WPTouch Admin

WPtouch 4.2 Released! (Caring for the Chrome Release)

Happy summer everyone! Here at BraveNewCode headquarters we’ve been working hard to polish and improve WPtouch, for free users and Pro customers alike. We’ve just released WPtouch 4.2, which has a number of tweaks, fixes and improvements inside.

You’re Free to Customize

In WPtouch 4.2 free, we’ve added support for the WordPress Customizer. You can now edit and adjust Bauhaus in real-time, live in the WordPress Customizer. We hope free users will see how easy it is to setup a mobile theme with WPtouch Pro.

Chrome-y Goodness

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Our developer and support guru Adam Di Pardo just added some nifty support for setting the Android Chrome toolbar color.

You can see it in action if the GIF here. WPtouch automatically sets the Chrome toolbar color to match your WPtouch theme’s header. It’s just another way to add beauty to your WPtouch-powered WordPress website, and happens automatically so there’s nothing to set— or forget!

iOS Frostedly-Delicious!

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In another move to add more polish and beauty to our themes, we now support backdrop frosting behind the header in Web App Mode. This is most prominent in Bauhaus.

You can see the difference in the GIF: previously the header was only semi-opaque, but now it fully blurs and saturates the content passing underneath it, for a native look and feel on iOS 7 and above.

Fixes

4.2 also includes a variety of tweaks and fixes, and fully supports WordPress 4.6 as well.

March 24, 2016 — By WPTouch Admin

WPtouch Pro 4.1 Released!

It’s hard to believe it’s been five months since the release of WPtouch Pro 4. Feedback has been tremendous with more site owners than ever before creating beautiful mobile experiences for their visitors.

With spring in the air, we’re excited to release WPtouch Pro 4.1, a major update to our flagship product. WPtouch Pro 4.1 includes vastly improved shortcode handling, powerful multisite management tools and a brand new extension to help you take advantage of Google’s new mobile technology: Accelerated Mobile Pages for WPtouch Pro.

Read on for the complete run-down, or head to your WordPress admin to upgrade to WPtouch Pro 4.1!

AMP for WPtouch

Google recently made its Accelerated Mobile Pages project live in search results. With major publishers onboard for a worldwide launch, it’s shaping up to be a new and interesting way to engage mobile audiences with your posts.

Implementing AMP support can be challenging: the Accelerated Mobile Pages format requires a unique subset of page markup and features – while WordPress-based websites often use incompatible functionality.

AMP for WPtouch leverages the conversion work being done by Automattic, and enriches it with the dynamic branding and customization controls you’ve come to love from WPtouch Pro, along with powerful functionality from our extensions, including brand new ad placement options in Multi-Ads.

The extension can be added to any active WPtouch Pro license and is available for purchase today. If you want to find out more about AMP for WPtouch, read our detailed blog post about the new extension here.

Powerful Multisite Control

Multisite WordPress is incredibly popular with institutions such as schools and universities, many of whom use multisite to provide web hosting to their departments and faculties – or even their students.

Preset themes and preconfigured settings are common in these environments. We’ve heard from many universities and school boards that they love offering WPtouch Pro to their users, but would love to be able to provide a standard theme and have some control over which aspects of the mobile experience can be configured on a site-by-site basis.

WPtouch Pro 4.1 introduces a new set of tools for customers with the Multisite Support license add-on.

Major new features include:

  • Hide settings sections on sub-sites
  • Setup new default settings that sub-sites will inherit (instead of WPtouch’s defaults)
  • Deploy settings from one site to one or several other sites
  • Control available themes and extensions

Starting today you can configure a master site with the theme & branding you want to offer to your sites, then use its configuration as the defaults for every new site in your network and deploy its configuration to all existing sites.

Whether your colour palette changes or you decide to roll out Web App Mode to all your sites, WPtouch Pro 4.1’s Multisite tools mean you can keep your entire network up to date with just a few clicks.

To enable Multisite control on your sites, simply add the Multisite Support add-on to your license.

Shortcode Handling

We first introduced support for desktop theme shortcodes a little over year ago, with WPtouch Pro 3.7. Since then, thousands of WordPress site owners have successfully used the feature to integrate their desktop theme’s custom features and content manipulation with WPtouch Pro mobile themes.

Better developer practices over the past year have meant that more and more theme frameworks are compatible with WPtouch Pro and our desktop theme shortcode support.

WPtouch Pro 4.1 includes overhauled shortcode support for broader support of the various methods shortcodes are employed.

The updated shortcode handling features of WPtouch Pro 4.1 are included free with all licenses.

Other Updates

Refined Featured Slider

Site owners love the featured slider in Bauhaus. It’s a great way to present your visitors with a selection of posts and encourage them to explore your content. Today’s update to Bauhaus includes great new featured slider options, including a new streamlined layout.

Updating WPtouch Pro

WPtouch Pro 4 introduced a convenient Updates Available tab to the admin, which allows site owners to keep their themes and extensions up to date with a single click. With WPtouch Pro 4.1, this screen also keeps the plugin itself up to date, helping you make sure you’re always running the latest and greatest WPtouch Pro experience available.

Web App Mode Payment Options

We’re pleased to add DenonStudio’s ‘PayPal Pro’ to the list of WooCommerce gateways verified to be compatible with Web App Mode.

Wizard Improvements

Although most users only experience the setup wizard once, we want to make sure your first encounter with WPtouch Pro makes for a great experience. WPtouch Pro 4.1 includes some refinements to the wizard, ensuring it’s not only the fastest way to get started with WPtouch Pro, but also the most enjoyable.

March 24, 2016 — By WPTouch Admin

All-New Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) for WPtouch Extension

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Since we launched WPtouch in 2008, the main goal of the product has been to make WordPress websites look and work better on touchscreen mobile devices. We’ve accomplished this by approaching the design and development of WPtouch from a speed + user-friendly first ideology.

Google Mobile Friendly

All WPtouch-powered websites pass Google’s mobile friendly tests with flying colors. Google has had many initiatives over the years aimed at improving the mobile web, and we’ve always been committed in helping to accomplish that very same goal.

AMP for WPtouch

Today we’re happy to announce native, integrated support for Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project. The project’s goals are so closely aligned with the same goals we have with WPtouch. It was clear to us that supporting this initiative was the right thing to do both for WPtouch customers and the mobile web.

If you’re not familiar with the project, Google announced the project last October. Recently, they revealed the enhancements they’ve made in revealing this content for mobile searches.

FEB 24th, 2016: Starting today we’ll make it easy to find AMP webpages in relevant mobile search results, giving you a lightning-fast reading experience for top stories.


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Now when you search for a story or topic on Google from a mobile device, webpages created using AMP will appear when relevant in the Top Stories section of the search results page. Any story you choose to read will load blazingly fast—and it’s easy to scroll through the article without it taking forever to load or jumping all around as you read. It’s also easy to quickly flip through the search results just by swiping from one full-page AMP story to the next.

Not Easy with WordPress

Implementing AMP with WordPress can be challenging on your own: the Accelerated Mobile Pages format requires a unique subset of markup and page features – and WordPress sites often use incompatible functionality. Those who are trying to implement it with their desktop themes are struggling with compatibility issues, or facing significant development barriers in time and costs to add support.

So that’s why we decided to work on how we could implement AMP with WPtouch is as painless simple a manner as possible. What could be easier than zero configuration? With AMP for WPtouch, you don’t have to configure anything, because you’ve already setup your mobile theme. AMP for WPtouch inherits your configuration and adds those settings into what it builds for your amp-powered posts.

How It Works

With AMP for WPtouch, AMP-specific versions of your posts are created automatically and are served on your website like this:

For each post, the AMP version is served by adding /amp/ to the end of the post url. Google identifies this automatically for indexing. Anywhere AMP results are preferred by Google, your content will appear. It’s really that simple.

Available Today

AMP for WPtouch is available today as an extension for WPtouch Pro, and it costs just $20. You can add it to any active license easily by visiting wptouch.com/extensions/amp.

Apple News

In addition to AMP support, we’re investigating ways we can extend WPtouch in a similar way to support other accelerated pages initiatives, such as Apple News. Stay tuned for information in the future regarding native support in WPtouch.

January 13, 2016 — By WPTouch Admin

WPtouch Pro 4 — Available Now!

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Get Ready for 4.0!

We’re happy to announce that we’ve released WPtouch Pro 4, the next major version of WPtouch Pro, so here’s a guide on what’s new and how to upgrade.

There are literally hundreds of changes inside WPtouch Pro 4— we’ve jokingly referred to it as our Snow Leopard release around the BraveNewCode offices. Version 4 represents 8 months of work by our team making improvements, refinements and some big changes in how you use the plugin to create the mobile version of your WordPress website.

By far and away the biggest visual changes are in the admin panel— we’ve completely revamped the process of using WPtouch Pro. In version 4, we’ve added a setup wizard, re-designed our settings administration panel, and moved all of your theme’s customization to the WordPress Customizer. More on that in a bit.

4.0 Wizard

The first time you install and run 4.0 (or upgrade from a previous version), you’ll see the new wizard when you visit the WPtouch settings panel.

Simply follow the wizard to get all setup with 4.0. The wizard is new in 4.0, and is designed to help expose some core settings, handle theme and extension activations, and if you’re running Multisite, choose whether you want to run WPtouch Pro in a controlled manner on not.

4.0 Customizer

By far and away the biggest change to WPtouch Pro in 4.0 brings live visual changes by way of the WordPress Theme Customizer. No other mobile solution for WordPress offers customizations in real-time with the WordPress Theme Customizer.

Having WPtouch theme setup in the Customizer makes configuring easier than ever. No product update since its original release over 7 years ago has offered a more profound improvement in the usability and functionality of WPtouch.

Using a Custom Theme?

Since we are not able to thoroughly test custom themes (they’re your customizations, after all) we’re looking for feedback and information on how your custom themes are working on 4.0. Early feedback from our beta testing has shown that custom themes are working great under version 4, but please be sure to check and make sure that yours is working fine.

We’ll have a guide in a few weeks on how to port them to a 4.0 custom theme if you wish, but you can leave them as is, we’ve worked hard to support that. As long as your custom or copied theme was built on WPtouch Pro 3.5 or higher, it should without issue on WPtouch Pro 4.

Menu Setup

Menu setup has moved— there are a few settings for menus still present in WPtouch Pro’s settings, while activating menus, and assigning icons have moved to WordPress’ native Appearance -> Menus setup area.

3 New Extensions

Along with updates for all of our extensions, we’ve added 3 new extensions — Basic Advertising, Web App Mode, and Related Posts. 

Formerly inside the product in previous versions, we’ve upgraded them to Extensions for a few reasons: Firstly, we have new features planned for each of them and continuing to add more complexity in the core of the product for features which not everyone may use didn’t seem like the right thing to do. Secondly, they were features which led to extra WPtouch Pro product updates which, as Extensions, mean we don’t have update the whole product just to ship a new feature or fix in Related Posts, for example.

We have more features for existing extensions, as well as some all new extensions planned going forward. We know you like extending the capability of WPtouch in different ways, and the changes in structure within WPtouch 4.0 make more room for that.

Cost

We think WPtouch 4 is by far and away the best version of WPtouch we’ve ever made. After hundreds of releases, 8+ million downloads and nearly a decade of work, our team has created the most polished, professional and powerful mobile tool for WordPress websites. And we want to see everyone using it and enjoying it.

We’re happy to announce that WPtouch 4.0 will be a free update for all  customers with active licenses.

As well with 4.0, all new version 4 updates for themes and extensions that you own will also be free with active licenses.

If your license expires soon, renew today to ensure you receive the 4.0 updates.

Upgrading

In order to see the update for WPtouch Pro 4 in your WordPress admin, make sure your installation is licensed. If upgrading fails for any reason, you can alternatively download version 4 and install it manually from your account page on our website.

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