How can I switch WordPress to mobile theme (with link to full site)

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I’m building a website in WordPress which has a separate mobile theme (this obviously uses the same database as the main site). The mobile theme is a child of the main theme, to maximize code reuse.

I downloaded a mobile detection script that works pretty well, but I can’t figure out how to switch to the mobile theme only for the current user, with an option to link to the full website.

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I don’t want to create a multisite for this – it seems like an overkill (and there’s the duplicate content issue).

I tried two ways:

  • themeswitch: Redirect to http://example.com/?theme=mobile_theme – not working

  • a weird solution I found somewhere on the web: 

    add_filter( 'template', 'wpse_49223_change_theme' );   
add_filter( 'option_template', 'wpse_49223_change_theme' );  
add_filter( 'option_stylesheet', 'wpse_49223_change_theme' );

function wpse_49223_change_theme($theme) 
{
    include 'script/Mobile_Detect.php';
    $detect = new Mobile_Detect();
    if ( $detect->isMobile() )
        $theme = 'pinnacle_mobile';
    return $theme;
}

This is not working either.

Does anyone have a working solution to this?

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  1. Not sure if applicable for your site. But one common solution to this is media queries.

    http://cssmediaqueries.com/

    Basically its if “mobile device” show this css else show “normal css”

    Another idea is to redirect to *mobile.yourdomain.com* when a mobile user connects. And having your mobile wordpress theme on that domain.

  2. The solution was indeed to use the Theme Switch plug-in.

    There are two things of importance here:

    Note that the theme parameter has to be the actual theme name, not the directory name. It’s case sensitive and uses + instead of spaces.