WP Mobile Detect
WP Mobile Detect by Jesse Friedman creates an easy way for the User Admin to control when content is shown or hid based on visitor device or operating …
4.8(64 reviews)
·5.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, WP Mobile Detect is a WordPress mobile plugin with 5.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 64 reviews. It has been downloaded 89K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 12% this week. Top alternative: AMP.
4.8/564 reviews
5.0K+active installs
89K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
One of the hardest parts of building Responsive WordPress themes is maintaining responsive integrity after the site goes live. User Admins can have limited coding abilities which can prevent them from maintaining responsiveness in themes.
WP Mobile Detect aims to make it extremely easy for anyone to wrap content in the editor with shortcodes which will hide content based on visitor device at the server level.
No longer do we need to rely on display:none; or other techniques to hide content for mobile devices. Instead we can replace content with alternatives. When a full-size infographic in your post is unknowingly displayed on a visitors phone we can consider that an Non-user initiated download. In other words that visitor had no idea what they were getting into and you possibly just chok…
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Still great for big code generators like Divi (iphone 6: also ok)
by alfadelta·5 years ago
Great plugin ot prevent downloading code only needed on desktop or … because most buiders use display:none instead of doing this smart filtering.
Works great!
by krystofdavid·6 years ago
Thanks for this plugin. Easy to use and works perfectly.
Excellent plugin
by mishash·8 years ago
I am very pleased with this plugin, it still works fine with the latest WordPress (tested with version 4.9.4). The plain and simple shortcodes is a huge convinience. I am really impressed that it is such a miser when it comes to performance, I run performance tests with P3 and the effect of this plugin on loading time is negligible. Thanks a lot to Jesse (plugin author) and it’s too bad it is no longer supported.
Thanks a million!
by salah7433·8 years ago
You are the best!!
Absolutely perfect
by dwhiteman·8 years ago
The perfect plug-in for optimizing your site for mobile. It has plenty of options, not just for what device the user is using, but also which mobile/tablet OS or browser.
If I had any nit-picky complaint it would be that it would be nice if it detected desktop OSs as well… Not that I expect I would use that, but it is an odd omission with all of this plug-in’s other features.
Download Trends
Today: 10Yesterday: 11This week: 44Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.8.4+ requiredTested up to 4.2.39 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.0
97.7%
v1.2
2.3%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.0
- Updated the core Mobile Detect Class 2.8.13
- Updated shortcodes, adding [blackberry], [chrome], [safari], [opera], [ie], [firefox]
- Updated functions, adding wpmd_is_blackberry(), wpmd_is_chrome_browser(), wpmd_is_safari_browser(), wpmd_is_opera_browser(), wpmd_is_ie_browser(), wpmd_is_firefox_browser()
- Updated readme and some links
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