daveharper

Hi again. Thanks for the additional feedback houseofboyd. We haven’t seen this happen during our own testing (and many others have installed with zero issues.) I have no explanation why this would occur. If you give it a go again – let us know – we’d be happy to “look over your sholuder” and help sort out what might be happening. Happy New Year.

Hi houseofboyd.

You mentioned trying to get back to the default theme and deleting/reinstalling themes. The WordPress Wii Edition plugin is not intended to replace your current/desktop theme.

The WordPress Wii Edition Plugin is a plugin that automatically renders an optimized version of your blog when visitors come to your blog on a Nintendo Wii running the Opera browser. Wii’s are automatically detected, there is no configuration needed.

Please be sure to carefully follow the installation directions as provided below:

Download the WordPress Wii Edition Plugin v1.2 (https://harper.wirelessink.com/?p=104)
Drop the wp-wii.php file in your wp-content/plugins directory
Drop the wp-wii directory in your wp-content/themes directory
Click the ‘Activate’ link for the WordPress Wii Edition on your “Plugins” page (in the WordPress admin interface)

If installed as suggested above the plugin does not overwrite other templates and can be easily activated/deactivated. Perhaps the files were inadverently upload to the incorrect locations – thereby overwriting files it should not have. I hope this helps – we certainly want you to enjoy the plugin and not have issues with it. If I can help in any other way please let me know.

Dave

Linking to a stylesheet with media=??handheld?? and other XHTML template approaches would be ideal in a perfect world, and in no way am I suggesting that sites should not do that as part of their mobile solution.

Unfortunately, not all 2 billion plus mobile phones in the world support XHTML MP / CSS, and the ones that do so offer varying support for those standards. There are also issues of a specific phones media support, screen size and network speed. Throw into that mix the notion that 1.) Perhaps browsing is not necessarily the best use case for mobile users and 2. ) Perhaps you wish to have your mobile site take advantage of the fact it is being viewed from a phone by interacting with phones’ inherent features.

If anyone wants to explore this topic more, Cameron Moll has done a great job offering insight and options in this series he wrote on mobile web design:

Mobile Web Design: Methods to the Madness (which contains a great chart comparing various methods)
https://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/000428.html

Mobile Web Design: Tips & Techniques
https://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/000577.html

From my perspective it is more than just publishing content (Separate set of templates) to a mobile environment or automagically squeezing a Web site onto a small screen (Opera Mini). It is about the individuals it engages, the people it connects, the dialogue that develops, the community that forms and the collective action that can result. Providing mobile solutions with this in mind requires more then stylesheets and transcoding services to get the job done.