Definitely allow mobile zooming

Description

This tiny plugin adds silently the viewport meta tag with zooming permission to allow your users to zoom in your website with mobile browsers.

If you find yourself in trouble not to be allowed to zoom with your favourite smartphone in your theme,

You can take this tiny plugin just to get the shiny magic zooming with your smartphone in your theme.

There are themes which are “responsive”. But a few of them are cruel. They do not let you zoom in-to your theme.

Don’t be upset, don’t get in panic, don’t spend a lot of money. Allow mobile zooming definitely in your theme.

You just download this plugin and click to activate it. No options page, no settings. Just your theme.

This plugin does all the magic for you and your users zooming with your smartphone in your theme.

Instead, just adding a second viewport meta line in the header section of a page, I started with version 1.5.0 to add theme specific viewport replacement, if available.
If you know theme which allows changes in the viewport by a filter, please write a comment in the WordPress forum and I will add the specific filter.

If you find yourself in trouble with this tiny plugin, don’t hesitate to ask for support.

Try it out on your free dummy site and click here.

The plugin does not collect any personal data, so it is ready for EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance. In your theme.

Installation

“Definitely allow mobile zooming” needs only activation to take effect. Pick one of the following ways to make the plugin work.

Using The WordPress Dashboard

1. Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
2. Search for ‘Definitely allow mobile zooming’ or just ‘allow zooming’
3. Click ‘Install Now’
4. Activate the plugin on the Plugin dashboard

Uploading in WordPress Dashboard

1. Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
2. Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
3. Select definitely-allow-mobile-zooming.zip from your computer
4. Click ‘Install Now’
5. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

Using FTP

1. Download definitely-allow-mobile-zooming.zip
2. Extract the definitely-allow-mobile-zooming directory to your computer
3. Upload the definitely-allow-mobile-zooming directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
4. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

Reviews

Perfect!

esp2013 March 1, 2024 1 reply

This did the trick and saved me from writing a function – thanks!

Won’t Work on Pop Ups

jazzylane11 October 7, 2023 1 reply

Cheers, very handy – HOWEVER I can’t get it to work on Pop Ups (Popups for Divi) on a mobile device. Any tricks you’d be able to share? Thanks heaps.

Saved my bacon – THANKS!

greymouse May 27, 2022

I had a menu page that would pinch/zoom perfectly… but ONLY on IOS devices. I couldn’t get that darn page to work properly on an Android to save my life. Spent MANY hrs trying different things. Just stumbled upon this plugin, installed it, activated it and BAMMM! Android devices work perfectly on it (and it didn’t affect IOS thank goodness). THANK YOU !

Excellent it works

adilhaimoura December 15, 2021

my title said it all, it works like charm!!

5 sec and my problem is solved

grumpy45 October 13, 2021

I spent few days searching how to change viewport by editing my theme functions.php to be able to zoome page on mobile devices without luck. With this plugin I solve my problem in 5 sec how mmuch I need to install it. Amazing plugin.

Outstanding.

dmkizer August 16, 2021 1 reply

Thank you so much for this.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.6.0

• added better viewport compatibility for Flatsome theme (thanks to @bramvds)
• Tested successfully up to WordPress 6.3-6.6

1.5.0

• added better viewport replacement for OceanWP theme
• Tested successfully with WordPress 5.8

1.4.1

• Tested successfully with WordPress 5.6.2
• Tested successfully with WordPress 5.7
• new branding

1.4

• Tested successfully with WordPress 5.5.1

1.3

• Tested successfully with WordPress 5.2.1

1.2

• Added ‘Requires PHP’ info in readme.txt
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.9.1

1.1

• Successfully tested with WordPress 4.8

1.0.7

• Successfully tested with WordPress 4.7

1.0.6

• Successfully tested with WordPress 4.6

1.0.5

• Successfully tested with WordPress 4.5

1.0.4

• Successfully tested with WordPress 4.4

1.0.3

• Successfully tested with WordPress 4.3

1.0.2

• Successfully tested with WordPress 4.1

1.0.1

• Successfully tested with WordPress 4.0

1.0

• First release. I hope it works with your website.