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  • Hi,

    Your site is not mobile friendly and not friendly at all ??
    You use a non-responsive theme. (like from 1990) Did you check it on mobile? Just resize your browser, you can see, that your site does not scale and its bad experience for users with smaller screen.

    Change your theme and do something ??

    HI DC –

    – The errors that you get are very typical. They do not mean that your website is not reachable nor readable via a phone (with a little hand scaling), they mean that your design makes it difficult for Google to read EVERYTHING that you have.
    – You can install the WPtouch Mobile plugin by BraveNewCode, activate it and then try the test again. I’ve had a lot of luck with this approach as it is the one that Google recommended when I got the same errors.
    – Once that is in place and Google is smiling again, look for a responsive WordPress theme, and move to that in 2016.
    – Google provides a good guide for making it happy: Google SMILING

    Thread Starter dcneuro

    (@dcneuro)

    I tried to install that plugin but it says it is not tested in the new WP version. If there is a problem will it resolve simply by removing it?

    Thoughts?

    @dcneuro

    Like kcalkmc, I’d suggest you move to a recent theme, aka created this year, to greatly improve this rank (all default wordpress themes made by Automattic themes are very good with mobile and responsive).

    That being said, this new Google “mobile” rank is very touchy, and often too much in some areas of responsive design, too low on others like background / font contrast (it’s a robot). I could add, roughly more than half of websites worldwide are not compliant to this new rank. But it’s for a greater goal of all websites being VERY mobile-friendly, a good goal as such.

    But like Peter said, you have plenty of space to improve. Google will tell you a lot about HTML and CSS, so after the switch to a new theme, make a new check but I strongly advise you learn a few html and css tricks in WordPress to be very efficient on that. Again, many good tutorials over the net.

    Hi DC –

    Re: Not tested with the latest version – Version 4.4 was released yesterday, so, it is likely that a large number of plugins have not been tested with that version.

    Look at the date that the plugin was last updated. Is it recent? Then you can be confident that the author(s) will update the plugin as soon as he/she can.

    Also, look at the saturation – How many downloads have there been? If there are a large number of installs, chances are that the plugin gets a lot of press and, so, will be updated as soon as the author(s) can.

    I can’t offer you guarantees on the future of WPtouch, but, it has over 400,000 installs and is recommended on Google’s mobile “fix” page for WordPress. Given those facts, I’d install it and test on my phone, then look at what the website looks on all the platforms. If all looks okay, then move on. If not, deactivate the plugin with the delete the files option.

    Thread Starter dcneuro

    (@dcneuro)

    I spoke to the good people at WP touch mobile and they said that the current version will work with WP 4.4. As such, I installed it and did another test and my site is now showing up as “awesome and mobile friendly”. As such, is this sufficient? Do I still need to concern myself with updating to a new theme? I’m kind of attached to my “underwater” theme even though it’s not current.

    Great, DC.

    YES, most definitely, you need to upgrade for security purposes. Old files are a mecca for hackers, and, the underlying technology and terms of the core have changed. Over time, the website will stop working (not all at once, but in maddening little bits at a time so you won’t even think of what might be causing it.) You can apply similar background and fonts and such to a new theme. Look for keywords like “response”, “HTML5”, “CSS3”, “Mobile-friendly” – and that should get you in the ball park.

    Good Luck!

    Your site is just not responsive, so it’s not “friendly” on smaller screens. Just resize your browser, you will see how it looks.

    If you use updated well coded theme, you don’t need any mobile plugin.

    @dcneuro

    No, it’s never enough in the way that, if you work for a large client, responsive is an everyday work (to work decent on tons of devices, sizes so on).

    That being said, as Jakob Nielsen says, design is about choices so you’ll have to make choices to design what is the best for the most part of people accessing your online property.

    Be it full width for mac/pc, small for smartphone in portrait mode, but also good on landscape mode, wider for tablet, or on app (in general you have an app for that purpose).

    I suggest you use a plugin for Chrome like I use (Responsive Web Design Tester) to have a quick overview while designing stuff.

    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/responsive-web-design-tes/objclahbaimlfnbjdeobicmmlnbhamkg

    It’s free, by the way and is not 100% accurate, but ok for a quick test.

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