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Turn off Mobile for some pages | Forum

Omari
Omari Aug 20 '14
I have a responsive site. so while using the mobile version in 1.7, users would always land on the mobile version. However if they try to go to something that is not available on mobile yet; they get an error message. "Page not found....Please switch to desktop version," Now when the user clicks this they get directed to the mobile version's main page and hence the link they wanted to go to is lost. Especially, if they found the link on Google or Facebook and clicked it on their mobile phone. They will get "Page not found - Please use desktop version" This looses the link. 


According to Google Webmasters this seriously increases the bounce rate for your site as users just cant find what they want.


Is there a way to use mobile version but automatically take users to desktop version when they click a link or find a link from searching. 


They can always switch back to mobile version afterward.

pit
pit Aug 30 '14
If you have a responsive site, don't need a mobile version web to nothing. 
If you don't need a mobile version for nothing, you can do 2 things:


The best:


Go to your admin panel...--> mobile---> settings---> "disable mobile version"



... or do this with code modification:


Go to "ow_includes" folder, open your config.php file and add this line "define('OW_USE_CONTEXT', 1);", 


from now, your website don't show any mobile version for nothing.

The Forum post is edited by pit Aug 30 '14