Website looks different in iPhones

  • Fiona

    (@feesplacegooglemailcom)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hi everyone,

    For a while now this has bothered me, but being really busy it’s not been top of the list! I’m now getting round to trying to fix this problem and it would be great to get some advice/help to sort it. My website https://www.outsource-typing.com looks great (I have tested it thru Sauce Labs) and nice and normal on most browsers… except iPhones. This is frustrating as a lot of people out there have iPhones! I want my website to look exactly the same on all browsers – how can I do this? (The easy version would be nice, too, as I am a bit of a rookie).

    PS I have the lastest version of the plugin “WPtouch Mobile Plugin”. Doesn’t seem to be working… ??

    Thanks!
    PF

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Which theme are you using? I think you’ll need to talk to the developer if it’s a commercial theme or hire someone to fix this for you: https://jobs.wordpress.net

    Hello there Fiona, you’re very right that a huge number of people use mobile devices (iPhones and Android Phones) to access websites and I understand your frustration with your site looking different on a phone. I’ll try to keep this simple as per your request above, but this is actually a complex question.

    1) Websites really shouldn’t look the same on mobile devices as they are on computers. The reason for this is mobile device screens are much smaller and have touch screens so buttons and menus have to be bigger and in different places. Your website actually does pretty well on mobile, though you may want to look at your theme’s options to see about changing the “Home” banner. Long story short, it will make your website very hard to use on mobile if it looks the same across mobile and desktop computers.

    2) You can probably make your website look the same on all browsers by turning OFF all of your mobile plugins and making sure you’re not using a “responsive” theme. This is probably not a good idea as it’s going to make your site very hard to use on mobile devices. It’s also going to mean switching themes since the one you’re using (Twenty Twelve) is not possible to change in this way as per this discussion.

    Hopefully that helps?

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