Title: make custom theme responsive
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# make custom theme responsive

 *  [hot ham water](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scwtenor/)
 * (@scwtenor)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-custom-theme-responsive/)
 * Hello all, and thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this. I’m the
   new administrator of this lovely site:
 * [http://s566126061.onlinehome.us/](http://s566126061.onlinehome.us/)
 * (it will soon have its own ‘normal’ URL but that development url will remain 
   valid)
 * It was designed from scratch from the ground up (or at least that’s what I was
   told) and no responsive code was added. I’ve tried two different plugins to make
   the site mobile-friendly (jetpack and handheld by elegant themes) but both of
   them show blank pages in the mobile view. I assume that the custom theme is using
   a non-standard page content area, which mobile-theme generating plugins can’t
   see. I’m not completely against making a sub-site that would present on mobile
   with the content of the main site duplicated, but I’d like to avoid it if possible.
   can anyone recommend a ‘gentle’ edit to the code to make the theme more ‘friendly’
   to plugins that make the site mobile-ready? I’d really like to avoid any large-
   scale changes to the code, as I was given this site to manage and wasn’t part
   of the design discussion.

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 *  Thread Starter [hot ham water](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scwtenor/)
 * (@scwtenor)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-custom-theme-responsive/#post-5870387)
 * ps, I can post chunks of php code here if that would help.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-custom-theme-responsive/#post-5870388)
 * Your URL isn’t accessible – goes to a login page.
 * But in general, there is no easy way to make a site responsive – and for a custom
   theme, that’s quite outside the scope of these forums.
 *  Thread Starter [hot ham water](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scwtenor/)
 * (@scwtenor)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-custom-theme-responsive/#post-5870389)
 * sorry, I’ve disabled the login requirement.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-custom-theme-responsive/#post-5870395)
 * Okay, as I guessed, that’s a major project – so you’ll need to hire someone or
   find a plugin that will work (maybe try WPTouch) or use another theme that is
   responsive.
 *  Thread Starter [hot ham water](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scwtenor/)
 * (@scwtenor)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-custom-theme-responsive/#post-5870396)
 * thanks for your reply. is it because of the way the text areas (for example) 
   are set up on the pages that mobile plugins don’t see them and display a blank
   page?
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-custom-theme-responsive/#post-5870397)
 * I don’t know why the plugins don’t work – does the theme use shortcodes? That
   might be a factor. You might be able to get a better answer from the plugin(s)
   developers – i.e. JetPack would be here:
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpack#postform](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpack#postform)

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