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Wapple.net forcing upgrade? Switch to WP Mobile Detector!
Wapple.net sent out an email saying that they are not going to support the free version of their plugin and that if you wish to continue service, you must upgrade to their paid option. There is an easy solution to this problem, switch to our free version that will remain free, the WP Mobile Detector. [...]
Posted January 8, 2013, 3:11 pm in Mobile, Mobile Plugins
How I increased Websitez.com’s performance by an additional 20%
Performance Overview A recent project of one of our co-founders, WebsiteSuggestions.net, motivated us to take a look at our own WordPress installation and see if we could speed up our site. In this blog post I will outline a few issues that we had that I know many other people are having. When we fired [...]
Posted March 19, 2012, 3:37 pm in How To, jQuery, WordPress Tips
How To Do A JavaScript Cross-Domain POST or GET With jQuery or XMLHttpRequest
If you have spent any significant amount of time in JavaScript sending data to the server, you have probably come across the strict cross-domain policy that has been in existence since the beginning of AJAX. There are ways around this such as a proxy script, but they are all kind of a pain. Most people are unaware [...]
Posted February 16, 2012, 5:04 pm in How To, jQuery
New Website Suggestions Tool
One of the contributors to the WP Mobile Detector project, Joshua Odmark, has built a website suggestions tool that provides suggestions for websites. There are many of these tools available on the Internet, but most just simply return statistics about your website. Things such as page size, keyword counts, header tag counts, header output, and [...]
Posted January 4, 2012, 12:43 pm in Tips & Tricks
Oh Sencha, where did you go wrong?
The last time I remember not being able to find a suitable framework from which to build a website off of was around 2000. I find myself with that feeling again with mobile development. I have tried multiple libraries, each with their pros and cons. I recently decided to dive into Sencha touch to see [...]
Posted December 29, 2011, 10:43 pm in jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch
jQuery Performance Tips
I just came across a great blog post linked from HN with 28 jQuery performance tips. There are a few tips from the blog post that we disagree with, but here are some of the best tips from the post: The fastest way to select an element in jQuery is by the element ID. The [...]
Posted December 14, 2011, 10:31 am in jQuery
jQuery & Mobile Web Development
Anytime we start a mobile project, we always look for ways to use jQuery. I don’t think I need to explain the awesomeness that is jQuery, but I wanted to write this blog post to discuss how we are using jQuery for mobile and offer up a few recommendations, even though their recent deletion of [...]
Posted December 9, 2011, 11:59 am in jQuery Mobile, Mobile
Checkout WP Login – Our Latest WordPress Plugin
They say that necessity is the mother of invention and that is exactly the case with our latest plugin, the WP Login WordPress Plugin. It seemed that almost every project we worked on we needed to modify the login form for WordPress. One project it was simply changing the logo from the default WordPress logo [...]
Posted October 18, 2011, 9:27 pm in WordPress Tips
Timthumb.php Security Flaw – Patched in WP Mobile Detector 1.7 and Above
Thank you to a couple users of the WP Mobile Detector who brought a security hole to my attention. Recently a hack was found that exploited the Timthumb.php script. The WP Mobile Detector utilizes the Timthumb.php script, so it could potentially effect any blog running the WP Mobile Detector plugin. I am happy to announce [...]
Posted September 1, 2011, 7:10 pm in WordPress Tips
Mobile Detection
A powerful mobile detection script has arrived! Websitez.com is proud to announce our own javascript based mobile detection script that works with any website. By including a snippet of javascript in your website, a visitor from a mobile device will be redirected to any mobile website you desire. This script uses the same detection available [...]
Posted May 16, 2011, 10:02 am in Mobile