Help for Beginner?

I added this a week ago and no one has offered to help. I would really like to be able to use this plug-in, but I honestly don’t know where to start. How do I tell if it is even activated? My site still looks terrible on my phone. I’m actually pretty computer savvy – I just need a couple of tips on how to get started with this app.

This is a fork of php_mobile_detect for WordPress. It detects devices on the server. If want the shortcodes for use inside your posts, pop open the readme.txt file.

This is not the tool to correct the appearance of a site on small viewports. For that, you would combine responsive and fluid CSS with OR without server side detection. Most of the time you can drop the server side detection, which is what this plugin does.

An example on how to use this plugin is showing a big image for the desktops, a medium image for the tablets (though they are pretty big now), and a small image for phones. Or showing one slider for desktops and a touch slider for not desktops and also using that to load the appropriate scripts for that range of devices.

I’m new to php but I want to make my own personal theme. I had to make a huge effort, and it sucked, but I made an attempt and then asked for help on wordpress.stackexchange.com. https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/172203/if-else-statement-to-check-for-thumbnail-and-whether-or-not-its-a-mobile-device — as you can see some stuff should be jobbed out.

So it sounds like I am over my head a bit and maybe this app isn’t going to do what I think it is? I think the main problem is not that my photos are too large, it’s that too much white space is showing around my posts, so maybe that’s a fix I need to have done to my theme instead? Maybe I’d better talk to my designer instead.

Hi @adrianscrazylife

I would like to help, what exactly are you trying to accomplish? Before I suggest the right tool or strategy I would like to fully understand your goals.

Jesse