Top WordPress Plugins to Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly

Updated on Jul 17, 2017by App 46

How To Make Your WordPress Site Mobile-Friendly?

NOTE: As of 08.31.2016 Google officially removed Mobile-friendly label from search result page.

The mobile web is growing exponentially. 2016 is a mobile first world. If your website doesn’t support mobile phones and tablets now, you can guarantee it’ll become increasingly important over the coming years. Mobile technology is going big. Every other user is now viewing your website from their iPhone or other smart phones.

It is essential that you create a mobile friendly version of your WordPress site. Majority of top sites and blogs have already made their sites mobile friendly, but there are tons of other sites and blogs that lacks a mobile friendly version.

Crunchify uses Genesis Framework which is by default Mobile Friendly Framework. So, I don’t use any extra plugin to convert my site to mobile layout.

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But if you are not using any mobile friendly framework then below are top WordPress Plugins.

1) WP Touch

WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress website for mobile devices, complete with ajax loading articles and smooth effects when viewed from popular mobile web browsing devices like the iPhone, iPod touch, Android mobile phones, BlackBerry OS8+ mobile devices, and more! More faster.

The admin panel allows you to customize many aspects of its appearance, and deliver a fast, user-friendly and stylish version of your site to touch mobile visitors, without modifying a single bit of code (or affecting) your regular desktop theme.

2) WP Mobile Detector

The WP Mobile Detector WordPress plugin automatically detects if the visitor is using a standard mobile phone or a smartphone and loads a compatible WordPress mobile theme for each.

It is one of the first to differentiate between a standard mobile phone and a smart phone. With advanced mobile analytics, image resizing, automatically formatted content, and detection of 5,000+ mobile phones, the WP Mobile Detector gives your mobile visitors the experience they desire.

3) 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.

You can select a different mobile theme for each mobile browser. You can select different mobile themes for each of the options above.

Which plugin are you using? Share your opinions about these plugins in the comments below. If we missed a one that you would like us to include feel free to suggest it in the comments. Also, if you find this article useful, don’t forget to share it with others.

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46 Comments...

hendri says

Oct 4, 2019 at 1:13 am

I use WPTouch Pro, this article makes it easy for me who is still a newbie. thank you

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Marie Weaver says

May 24, 2019 at 9:38 pm

Nice Post, I use one of themes of WordPress that is so essay and really mobile friendly and essay to access.

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- App Shah says
  
  Jul 1, 2019 at 4:30 pm
  
  Nice. Thanks Marie for your comment.
  
  Happy Blogging.
  
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Jerry says

Sep 27, 2017 at 9:35 am

Thanks for sharing these amazing plugins for making smart phone mobile friendly.

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- App Shah says
  
  Oct 14, 2017 at 5:19 pm
  
  You are welcome Jerry.
  
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Lary brown says

Sep 19, 2017 at 10:41 am

I was actually looking for same kind of information. In fact, really interesting information and you wrote article with some great research work. I just want to thanks for this article and appreciate you hard work.

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Fadil says

Mar 7, 2017 at 4:28 am

i’ve installed Genesis Tabs but not working with my wordpress version at packagor. kindly advice me.

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- App Shah says
  
  Mar 7, 2017 at 1:36 pm
  
  Hi Fadil – I didn’t get your question clearly. Could you please explain in details?
  
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  - Joins says
    
    Mar 8, 2017 at 1:44 pm
    
    i installed the Genesis Tabs plugins at my wordpress website but plugin is installed and not working and message is not compatible with my wordpress version see my website and advise me .
    
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    - App Shah says
      
      Mar 17, 2017 at 6:27 pm
      
      Hi there – sorry but I never played with Genesis Tabs plugin. Also, it’s not been updated since last 2 year 🙁
      
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nugrozstone says

Jan 2, 2017 at 8:58 am

hey, i am using genesis on outreach pro theme, but i still get “your page is not mobile friendly” on SERP… ???

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- App Shah says
  
  Jan 3, 2017 at 2:17 pm
  
  I just checked and seems outreach pro theme is by default mobile friendly. What is your site URL?
  
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  - nugrozstone says
    
    Jan 3, 2017 at 9:45 pm
    
    URL >> http:// www. dreamlandsdesign. com
    and my problem is this.
    
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    - App Shah says
      
      Jan 4, 2017 at 12:15 pm
      
      Interesting. When did you take above screenshot? In my google search, i’m not seeing that message 🙂
      
      Also, google Mobile Friendly test result shows your site is mobile friendly.
      
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Gaurav Verma says

Jul 14, 2016 at 5:52 am

i think wp touch work great for me

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Taleb BD says

Apr 10, 2016 at 10:14 am

Thanks

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MyHairCareBiz Mellisa Louise says

Jan 13, 2016 at 9:26 pm

Thank you so much for writing this! Before I got the WPTouch plugin, half of my site was cut off using a mobile browser. You are a life saver! <3

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- App Shah says
  
  Feb 17, 2016 at 11:07 am
  
  you are welcome.
  
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David Miller says

Aug 26, 2015 at 5:08 am

These are really good plugins. Thanks for sharing! It is really very useful to build a mobile friendly website.

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- App Shah says
  
  Feb 17, 2016 at 11:07 am
  
  You are welcome David. Keep visiting and happy blogging.
  
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Daniel Keith says

Apr 29, 2015 at 7:55 am

Hi App Shah!
Very nice information. I am using De-tube template on site. I want to know that how can i make it mobile responsive.

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info-menarik.NET says

Apr 27, 2015 at 2:46 am

Berarti jika tema responsive belum tentu juga mobile friendly ya mas?
Ok deh langsung saya coba praktekkan plugin mobile friendlynya … 🙂 Salam kenal …

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Rudolf says

Feb 26, 2015 at 9:22 am

Does this new Google search feature also imply some SEO advantages, better search results placing, would you know??

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- App Shah says
  
  Mar 1, 2015 at 1:27 pm
  
  Hi Rudolf – I believe yes. As per latest report, it seems Google shows mobile friendly sites on top of search result.
  
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kamlesh sharma says

Feb 7, 2015 at 6:05 am

Great list of plugins.
But what you suggest only one plugin for your readers ??
I will look at WP Touch plugin. and You.. ?

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- App Shah says
  
  Feb 9, 2015 at 6:55 pm
  
  Hi Kamlesh – I’m using Genesis Framework for WordPress. Most of their themes are mobile friendly so I’m not using special plugin.
  
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  - kamlesh sharma says
    
    Feb 15, 2015 at 11:44 pm
    
    I also want to use genesis framework on my blog. But before that i want to know is a free child theme may harm my SEO?? or may i use free child theme ?
    
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    - App Shah says
      
      Feb 18, 2015 at 2:03 pm
      
      I don’t think free child theme will harm SEO. All Genesis themes are fully supports Schema.org code, which allows you to output microdata in your site’s code. This enhances your site’s search engine optimization even further — as does Google Authorship identification, which Genesis makes incredibly simple.
      
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Greg says

Dec 20, 2014 at 9:09 am

Hi App Shah,
Interesting article…..I’m using Genesis myself but not all the themes are responsive and if you make changes to the CSS it could impact on just how responsive a website can be…for instance, if you include images they don’t automatically resize (even in a responsive theme).The other issue is that the sidebar disappears to the bottom of the website when the browser screen narrows…. Also, full width header images don’t resize….

What are your thoughts?

Especially on getting images to resize?

For this reason, I build completely separate mobile websites for my clients based on the goMobi framework….that way a client only sees the mobile friendly website on their smartphones…

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- App Shah says
  
  Dec 27, 2014 at 11:24 am
  
  Great point Greg. Yes, not all themes are responsive and it’s kind of very impossible to maintain and customize it rather build from scratch. I do use Eleven40 theme here and it’s fully mobile friendly with image auto resize as per platform.
  
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Friendly Connect says

Dec 17, 2014 at 1:54 pm

Does having a mobile site increase Google Map rankings? We are using these plugins for clients and want to also know the addtional benefits to creating a mobile wp version.

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- App Shah says
  
  Dec 18, 2014 at 1:00 pm
  
  Hi there.. Google search is now adding ‘mobile friendly’ label to show when a site plays nice with phones. It’s really important to have site mobile friendly. I’ve added diagram at the top of post which shows “Mobile-friendly” in search result.
  
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anon says

Jul 8, 2014 at 4:43 am

which one yourl use ? I like your style

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- App Shah says
  
  Jul 20, 2014 at 1:48 pm
  
  I’m using Genesis Framework: https://crunchify.com/refer/genesis
  
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Danny says

Oct 31, 2013 at 5:54 am

Hi, great article, thanks for the info. I have a couple of questions.

1) Should you only have one of these plugins installed for your WordPress site? Is there any benefit in having more than one of these installed, or will they conflict and create a mess?

2) My site will mostly be used in the developing world where smart phones are less common but standard phones with internet are very common. It seems like WP Mobile Detector would be best for this from your description. Do you have any other advice on this?

Thanks, any advice would be welcome.

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- App Shah says
  
  Nov 24, 2013 at 10:19 pm
  
  Hi Danny,
  Please find here my answers:
  1) You should install only one of these
  2) Absolutely – installing any of of these will help. User usually sees mobile site only when they are on mobile.
  
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miguel shands says

Aug 14, 2013 at 7:02 am

Hey I’m definately gonna look into WP Touch, ive been wanting to set up a mobile version but never knew it was this simple, thank you!

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- App Shah says
  
  Aug 16, 2013 at 8:22 am
  
  You are welcome.
  
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Sujit Paul says

Jul 5, 2013 at 2:57 am

Thanks App Shah. Very interested to install the mobile friendly wordpress plugin wordpress.org/plugins/wptouch/ . It covers iPhone, iPad, Android and etc.

Do you think its easy to install our wordpress site And automatically it will covert the full design and layout to mobile friendly version?

Your help much apprecated.

Thanks
Sujit

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- App Shah says
  
  Jul 13, 2013 at 6:08 pm
  
  Absolutely. I’ve tried WPTouch some time back and it worked like charm.
  
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- App Shah says
  
  Nov 24, 2013 at 10:21 pm
  
  Absolutely. It works fine.
  
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Alexcoder says

Jun 28, 2013 at 10:24 am

Try this http:// codecanyon. net/item/themwitch/4764902
This plugin is easy to install and has more functionality. For example customization sidebars for each theme.

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- App Shah says
  
  Jul 1, 2013 at 3:58 pm
  
  Thanks Alexcoder for sharing your product.
  
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- App Shah says
  
  Nov 24, 2013 at 10:22 pm
  
  Thanks for sharing…
  
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Danny Turner says

Jun 26, 2013 at 11:53 pm

Hi ,
I have developed a new plugin that I think is the best WP plugin for mobile available today.
It’s main strength is it’s ability to pull any content from the main WP install.

There is a free version here.

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- App Shah says
  
  Jul 1, 2013 at 3:59 pm
  
  Thanks Danny for sharing wpeasymobile
  
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Top WordPress Plugins to Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly