Mobile Theme Launched

By the end of last week, I received some comments on the bad rendering of my site in a mobile browser. Not really on an iPhone, iPad or an Android phone, but in all the other small screen browsers. I found it looked rather nice on an iPad last week!

I found a wordpress plug-in to solve this problem, called the WordPress Mobile Theme pack. It took me a bit to configure it, but I think I’m almost there.

The main configuration problems where related to the menu I use on top, which is based on another plug-in and not on the standard WordPress menu. I had to take the standard one out of the theme header.php file to make sure people where not presented with a list of about 20 pages, ranging from the Christmas puzzle to other stuff I try to keep hidden ;)

That problem seems to be solved now, and aside from a few validation errors and still quite a long load-time, which I have to have a look at I think it looks quite well. Please have a look for yourself (use your mobile ;) ).

- WordPress Mobile Theme Pack Plug-in

- Mobile Web Test Website



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Enable Gzip on 000webhost

It’s a bit tricky to find how to enable Gzip compression on pages hosted on the 000webhost, a free hosting service.

Gzip compression is server-side compression of web pages that can lower the amount of data the browser has to download around 60-70%

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There are many techniques to do so, but most common is to modify the .htaccess file in your site root directory.

Most of the ways to add compression contain flags or parameters based on Apache modules that the 000webhost chooses not to use, a pity but there is a solution.

 

If you add the following lines to your .htaccess file, gzip compression will work:

 

php_flag zlib.output_compression On

php_value zlib.output_compression_level 5

 

You can test this by going here, add your URL and check the test button.



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Feeback Roulette

I tend to use this site a bit as my playground. I play with the CSS, wordpress platform and its plug-ins among other things.

Usually this causes quite some visual changes to the site, or functional changes that might be for the better, or for the worse.

I stared using an online tool to get feedback for my site. Not the typical scan for CSS errors tool, but feedback by people who make an effort to maintain the feedback constructive and with a certain level of quality.

Feedback Roulette LogoFeedback Roulette works in a very simple way. You earn Feedback Points by reviewing peoples websites. As soon as you’ve reviewed the first, people start reviewing yours. The fact that the feedback given needs to be rated guarantees the quality of the feedback.

Best thing of all…. It’s Free!

 

So If you have a sit you’d like some honest, people-generated feedback on, give it a shot!!



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GTranslate WordPress Plug-in

image Since I saw on my stats that I have some visitors from Latin America, The Netherlands and and Spain, I just installed the Gtranslate plug-in for my Blog.

It’s a simple setup to have a small translate dropdown like you see on the right here.

The translations are well… like most machine translations a bit quirky. This one however, is using community corrections, and should therefore give a more reliable result.

Since I’m limited to 5 languages only ;) I’d like that if you use it that you let me know the result in comments. Thanks!!



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Google Analyticator Plug-in on 000webhost

Just a short note for people that are trying to make the Google Analyticator wordpress plug-in work with a site hosted for free on 000webhost.com.

 

When you authenticate through the Plug-in settings page, you will get an error like:

 

“Failed to authenticate with Google. Read this support article on Analyticator’s support forums for help.”

 

It won’t work and there is no need to follow the troubleshooting steps mentioned in the linked support article.

The reason is that 000webhost, when using the free hosting service, does not support SSL connections. these are required by Google/the Plug-in to authenticate.

 

It seems that the only option you have is to upgrade to paid hosting… Could have guessed…



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