The development of mobile website has increased within recent years, a wide variety of applications for mobile and the uses of mobile web browser to access the internet has significantly increased.
If you are a blogger or webmaster, you must to follow the latest change of web technology trend to keep your site’s performance by improving the mobile user experience to the site such as implementing responsive CSS for website menu to be easy to access and navigate by mobile users.
Is this really important? how to make your website more mobile-friendly?
To improvise your site to make it more mobile-friendly, You can do this in several ways such as replacing your old wordpress theme (not optimized to mobile layout) to make it more responsive, using mobile wordpress plugin to create a secondary mobile themes that can be accessed easily from smartphone and create applications version of your website for mobile such as android and iOS app.
Referring to the latest Google algorithm, mobile website will be prioritized for the latest algorithm changes, this is the second algorithm updates for Google’s mobile search results. You can read the article here; “Continuing to the make the web more mobile friendly“. So make sure your site is ready for mobile-friendly layout.
Below, we try to collect some of the best wordpress plugin for mobile that you can use to improve the mobile user experience in your site, some of plugins is specifically designed to help you to develop a mobile app and the rest is useful to improve the user interface design (UID) of your site to make it more responsive and mobile friendly. Let’s check it out.
WordPress Mobile App Plugins (iOS / Android App Development)
Androapp
Native mobile app for android platform, create a beautiful mobile app for your wordpress blog in minutes, no programming knowledge required. Inbuilt Sharing channels with image share for Facebook, WhatsApp and more through default android sharing intents.
- Developer: Genius Fools
- Documentation: Click Here
MobiLoud
MobiLoud makes it easy to convert your WordPress blog or news site into a native mobile app for iOS (iPhone app and iPad app included) and Android phones and tablets.
- Developer: 50pixels
- Documentation: Click Here
Worona
Worona is an open source WordPress plugin that enables users to convert their WordPress Blog into a native mobile App which prepares the content of your WordPress site to be sent to the app, and the native app coded using Corona SDK. The functioning of Worona is pretty easy.
- Developer: Worona Team
- Documentation: Click Here
WiziApp
WiziApp allow you to create stunning mobile Apps in minutes. Fully customizable. Unlimited push notification. Advanced mobile user engagement. Gain new audience. Your readers can now download an Offline version of your content to their mobile device and access it even in poor internet connection areas. Use your own responsive wordpress theme or choose from one of our dedicated mobile themes.
- Developer: WiziApp
- Documentation: Click Here
WordApp
WordApp is a wordpress mobile plugin that converts your blog/website in to a mobile app & mobile website. Built by a community of mobile app geeks we are really proud to offer the very first mobile app plugin for wordpress. The mobile app templates are full customizable or you can even use your own.
- Developer: Dave Anthony
- Documentation: Click Here
WordPress Mobile Switcher and Themes
WPtouch
WPtouch is a mobile plugin that allow you to create 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.
- Developer: BraveNewCode Inc.
WP Mobile Edition
WP Mobile Edition is a mobile switcher that will automatically detects whether the visitor to the site is mobile or not, and switches between the primary WordPress theme or loads a mobile theme.
- Developer: Fabrix
Any Mobile Theme Switcher
This Plugin detects mobile browser and display the theme as the setting done from admin. Useful for switch to Mobile Theme.
- Developer: Dinesh Karki
- Documentation: Click Here
Responsive Menu
Responsive Menu plugin for WordPress is a Highly Customisable Responsive Menu Plugin for WordPress, with 70 customisable options for a nice mobile menu or tablet menu experience. The plugin is fully responsive if you have the viewport meta tag on your site, using media queries with the widths defined by you. It can be used as a responsive website menu, mobile menu, tablet menu or full dedicated menu for your main site.
ShiftNav
ShiftNav is an awesome mobile menu for WordPress. It looks and acts like native app off-canvas slide-out menus for popular apps like Facebook, Gmail, etc.
- Developer: sevenspark
- Documentation: Click Here
WP Responsive header image slider
The plugin adds a Responsive header image slider tab to your admin menu, which allows you to enter Image Title, Content, Link and image items just as you would regular posts.
- Developer: wponlinesupport
Responsive jQuery Slider
Responsive jQuery Slider wordpress plugin enable you to create image slider with cool animations CSS.
- Developer: CHR Designer
- Documentation: Click Here
