Code stuff about PHP on Jun 23, 2008 4

Detecting web visitors that use mobile phones

With all the thrusts nowadays towards using mobile devices to surf the Net, it would be great if your Wordpress blog is mobile device friendly. The concept is actually simple and you can incorporate a mobile friendly version of your blog by understanding some simple things.

The main thing that you need to know is that when visitors to your Wordpress blog (actually any web site but let’s use Wordpress for this example) browses your site, you can identify the type of computer or mobile device that they are using. Once you have identified the device, it’s easy to create a separate CSS stylesheet for your mobile visitor.

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Code stuff about Chit Chat on Jun 16, 2008 Write comment

Code Stuff theme now installed

I’ve managed to get an initial version of the Wordpress theme for the Code Stuff site. Some form of web browser detection is now working and it should display properly on XHTML compliant mobile browsers.

Commenting is next on my list. More on this later.