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WPtouch – Make your WordPress Website Mobile-Friendly

By WPtouch

Design & Themes / Themes & Templates

Reviewed by Omar Dabbas

Trusted WordPress expert with 20+ years of experience evaluating plugins for the WP ecosystem.

WPtouch – Make your WordPress Website Mobile-Friendly Review - In-Depth Analysis

WPtouch makes your WordPress website mobile-friendly with a simple and elegant theme for mobile visitors. Recommended by Google, it ensures your site passes mobile tests.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

7.38/10

User Rating

3.7/5 (based on 341+ reviews)

Active Installations

50,000+

Update Frequency

Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

5 / 10 (Medium Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

WPtouch is a mobile plugin for WordPress that automatically adds a simple and elegant mobile theme for mobile visitors to your WordPress website. Recommended by Google, it will instantly enable a mobile-friendly version of your website that passes the Google Mobile test, and ensure your SEO rankings do not drop due to not having a mobile-friendly website.

The WPtouch administration panel and WordPress Customizer allow you to customize many aspects of its appearance, and deliver a fast, user-friendly and stylish version of your site to your mobile visitors, without modifying a single bit of code. Your regular desktop theme is left intact, and will continue to show for your non-mobile visitors.

Go Pro for support and more control, enhanced themes and features. WPtouch Pro offers a variety of enhanced themes for blogs, businesses, and WooCommerce retailers; extensions that add rich advertising options, advanced web font controls, caching, and more; and of course, top-notch one-on-one support from our professional team.

Comparing to Alternatives

WPtouch offers a dedicated mobile-friendly solution for WordPress sites, with several alternatives available that provide different approaches to mobile optimization.

Top alternatives

Strengths

Effortless mobile optimization without coding.
Intuitive customization options for mobile themes.
Fast and smooth site performance on mobile devices.
Exceptional and responsive customer support.
Proven reliability over many years of use.

Weaknesses

Limited settings and customization compared to some alternatives.
Some users report difficulty with displaying post thumbnails.
Known security vulnerabilities in past versions, though fixed in updates.
Occasional critical errors reported on mobile display.

User Sentiment Analysis

With a 3.7 average rating from 341 reviews, most users praise WPtouch for its ease of use and support, though nearly 30% of ratings are 1 or 2 stars, indicating notable issues for some.

Positive highlights

"Outstanding Plugin & Exceptional Support!" - Mike Carcagente
"Good Plugin, Great Support" - bobbytram1249
"Good plugin with very good support" - matteodifelice
"BEST option, believe me!" - marcelonn
"Great mobile plug-in" - dgreencr

Common complaints

Too basic with hardly any settings.
Impossible to get thumbnails for posts.
Critical error displaying the web page on mobile devices.

Weaknesses

Limited customization options frustrate some users.
Occasional critical errors affect mobile display.
Past security vulnerabilities may concern cautious users.

Who Should Use This?

Best for

Users seeking a straightforward, reliable mobile optimization plugin with excellent customer support and minimal setup effort.

Not ideal for

Those needing advanced customization options or highly robust security assurances may find WPtouch limiting or concerning due to past vulnerabilities.

Pricing & Value

Free version includes

The free version provides basic mobile theme functionality and essential customization options suitable for most users.

Pro version (79 - 359 USD / year)

The pro version offers enhanced features such as advanced customization, additional themes, and priority support to better tailor mobile experiences.

Final Verdict

WPtouch is a solid choice for users wanting an easy-to-use mobile-friendly plugin backed by strong customer support. Its free version covers essential needs, and the pro upgrade adds valuable features for more customization.

However, users should be aware of its limited customization compared to some alternatives and consider the history of security vulnerabilities, ensuring they keep the plugin updated to mitigate risks.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free WPtouch – Make your WordPress Website Mobile-Friendly plugin.

mobile-friendly

responsive

wordpress mobile plugin

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FAQ

Yes, that’s true in general. However *not all websites are created equal, with some sites significantly failing to translate well in small mobile device viewports.

Many WordPress sites today also make heavy use of a variety of javascript, css and image files which significantly increase load times, in turn driving visitors on data connections crazy, often causing them to abandon your site altogether.

We created WPtouch to be a lightweight, fast-loading, feature-rich mobile plugin to add a theme shown to mobile visitors. The plugin includes an admin panel for customizing many aspects of your site’s presentation when showing the mobile theme.

If you are using a caching plugin, you will need to configure it to work properly with WPtouch. If your caching plugin is not configured, or not configured properly, you will most encounter inconsistent behaviour where WPtouch shows for desktop visitors, or mobile visitors see your desktop site.

W3 Total Cache

If you have “Browser Cache” enabled, please disable ‘Set expires header’ in the Browser cache settings to prevent Desktop/Mobile switch link issues.
Go to the “Page Cache” settings under the Performance tab.
Copy the list of mobile user agents found in our list of “User agent list for configuring cache plugins“.
If you have added support for additional mobile devices in WPtouch’s Compatibility > Custom User Agents field, you must also include those user agents in the “Rejected User 5. Agents” area in W3 Total Cache.
Scroll down to the “Rejected User Agents” field and paste the list of WPtouch default user agents, adding one per line. Save your changes.
Go to the “Minify” settings under the Performance tab. Scroll down to the “Rejected User Agents” field and paste the list of WPtouch default user agents, adding one per line.
Save your changes.
Go to the “CDN” settings under the Performance tab.
Scroll down to the “Rejected User Agents” field and paste the list of WPtouch default user agents, adding one per line.
Save your changes.
Finally, go to the W3 Total Cache “Dashboard” and select “Empty All Caches”.

Ensure that W3 Total Cache is selected in the plugins list in the Compatibility section of the WPtouch admin panel.

WP Super Cache

Note: The native support for the free version of WPtouch found in WP Super Cache (under the “Plugins” tab) must be disabled to prevent conflicts in WPtouch.

In the Advanced tab of the WP Super Cache settings select “Mobile Device Support”* and click “Update Status”.
Still in the Advanced tab, scroll down to the “Rejected User Agents” area. Paste the entire list of mobile user agents found in our list of “User agent list for configuring cache plugins” into the field and click “Save UA Strings”.
If you have added support for additional mobile devices in WPtouch’s Compatibility > Custom User Agents field, you must also include those user agents in the “Rejected User Agents” area in WP Super Cache.
In the “Contents” tab, click “Delete Cache” and “Delete Expired” to delete pages that were likely cached before adding the new list of rejected user agents.
Ensure that WP Super Cache is selected in the plugins list in the Compatibility section of the WPtouch admin panel.

WP Rocket

In the “Basic Options” of WP Rocket’s settings page, make sure “Enable caching for mobile devices.” is deselected. Ensure that WP Rocket is selected in the plugins list in the Compatibility section of the WPtouch admin panel.

Please see the user manual for additional information.

WP Engine

Please contact WPEngine and ask them to exclude the user agents found in the “User agent list for configuring cache plugins“.