MacBros' Place

wordpress-mobile

I’ve been going crazy over the fact that my site takes forever to load on my Blackberry. 

It was always loading some scripts which made it take forever to load the damn mobile page.

I knew that a simple 5K page shouldn’t take so long to load up on a mobile device, so I went snooping through the MobilePress plug-in templates and realized that it was loading the WP tag code that loads all the bells and whistles that would normally be just for a desktop browser.

I removed the tag ‘<?php wp_head(); ?>’ in the header template so it wouldn’t try and load all the JAVA goodies that are only meant for the regulanr desktop browsers. Now that it is gone, my posts load up nice and fast like they should. 

Now I just need to figure out how to make the images re-size so they fit right, and have the author of the plug-in ‘Why Do Work AdSense‘ make it so Google Mobile AdSense ads are displayed instead of them over sized regular ones.

I also installed another plug-in that will allow me to view my Admin pages on mobile and eliminate all the fancy graphics that kill loading speeds and Data Usage when approving comments that get stuck in limbo, or if I want, Post from my Blackberry. That plug-in is called WPhone.

So if you have been trying to access my site on your mobile device, but gave up because it was taking so long to load. I apologize, it’s safe to try again though. It’s working a lot better now that I removed that WP Tag.