Its not a secret that Mobile is rapidly becoming the defacto way to access the Internet. In fact more Smart Phones were sold than Laptops last year – so clearly the days when desktops/laptops ruled the Internet are fading fast.
If you run a website whether it’s for business or pleasure, the failure to make your site mobile friendly will likely cause you to lose business to your competitors that do. Even if you just have a social blog – you want as many users as possible to be able to easily read the content on your site.
Luckily – there are several ways to accomplish this, some are rather technical and require that you understand a bit of code, but fortunately a simple, straight forward way to bring mobile friendliness to your WordPress site is to use the free plug-in WordPress Mobile Edition.
To install – log into the admin panel for your WordPress site and navigate to add plug-ins. Search for the plug-in WordPress Mobile Edition. Once located, install, then activate the plugin. Since the auto install doesn’t correctly put all the pieces of the plug-in where they belong, you will get a message that says WordPress Mobile Edition is not installed correctly.
The WordPress Mobile Edition plug-in contains a special WordPress theme needed to provide the correct mobile access. Here is the easy fix - log into your web hosting account and move the folder Carrington-mobile-1.0.2 from the wp-content/plugins directory to the wp-content/themes directory. Note: the wp-mobile.php file remains in the plugins directory – do not move this file.
The Carrington-mobile-1.0.2 folder contains the mobile themes needed to provide your site visitors mobile access. The Carrington theme automatically adjusts itself to the level of sophistication of the phone accessing your site – so, for example, smart phone users get a more advanced user interface then less capable phone users do.
Note: the Carrington-mobile-1.0.2 folder is current as of this writing – depending on when you make this installation, it may have a different version number.
Once installed, open your site in your mobile phone browser and check out your new mobile friendly site.
Relatively painless, and now you have a site that won’t get lost in the rush to mobile.






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