Title: Help for Beginner?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Help for Beginner?

 *  [adrianscrazylife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adrianscrazylife/)
 * (@adrianscrazylife)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-for-beginner/)
 * WP newbie here – I’m not even sure if I’ve got this plug-in properly activated.
   I did install and activate the plug-in, but I had no idea what to do with this
   piece of the instructions:
 * Upload the wp-mobile-detect folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
 * Assuming I get that part figured out, then I’m not sure where to go to update
   my mobile theme for all these different devices. Can I get some hints for how
   to drive this thing???
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mobile-detect/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mobile-detect/)

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 *  Thread Starter [adrianscrazylife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adrianscrazylife/)
 * (@adrianscrazylife)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-for-beginner/#post-5547571)
 * 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.
 *  [Christina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carasmo/)
 * (@carasmo)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-for-beginner/#post-5547577)
 * 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. [http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/172203/if-else-statement-to-check-for-thumbnail-and-whether-or-not-its-a-mobile-device](http://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.
 *  Thread Starter [adrianscrazylife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adrianscrazylife/)
 * (@adrianscrazylife)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-for-beginner/#post-5547578)
 * 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.
 *  Plugin Author [Jesse Friedman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/professor44/)
 * (@professor44)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-for-beginner/#post-5547624)
 * Hi [@adrianscrazylife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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

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 * [WP Mobile Detect](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mobile-detect/)
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 * Last reply from: [Jesse Friedman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/professor44/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-for-beginner/#post-5547624)
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