Tuesday, March 13, 2012

How to activate iPhone Theme For Mobile Browsers on Magento


If you run your web store by using Magento e-commerce platform, you may know by default there is an iPhone theme in your web directory. This theme provides your web store to browse with full functionality on all modern mobile platforms.
You can configure this theme to display automatically when your customers browse your web store by using an iPhone, iPod or an Android browser. Otherwise they will see the default theme of your web store.
To enable iPhone theme for mobile browsers, you can follow some step which are given below:
Step 1. Go: System -> Configuration from Admin panel of your web store.
Step 2. Click on the Design tab from left panel.
Step 3.Expand the Themes options by click on the Themes tab

Step 4.Click on the Add Exception button from under Templates.  Then two new boxes will appear.
Step 5.  Enter iPhone|iPod|Android In the Matched Expression field.
Note:  In this step you can enter more mobile user agents such as Opera, Blackberry etc.
Step 6.  Enter iphone In the Value field.
Step 7.  Now repeat steps 4-6 for Skin (Images/CSS) and Layout field.

Step 8.  Then click the Save Config button from the right top. After that you should change the logos of your iPhone theme.
Now you are done. When any customer browse your web store by using an iPhone, iPod or an Android browser then he will see the iPhone theme.


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