MyBB Forum : How To Make Your Forum Mobile Friendly

Currently, the default MYBB 1.8 theme is not mobile friendly at all but with a little work you can make your MyBB forum mobile friendly so your content can look good on smart phones and tablets. 

In this article, I'll introduce diffrent methods one can use to achieve this aim, just keep exploring below;

1. MyBB GoMobile

MYBB GoMobile  a light weight plugin that can be downloaded from the official MyBB site, and  on GitHub  too. In MYBB 18, it's installed as a normal plugin. This plugin comes with a gomobile_theme.xml and a plugin that you will need to install. GoMobile is intended for MyBB 1.6.8, but there are reports that it can be made to work with 1.8. I included a solution at the end of this section.

One special feauture this plugin has is that from the admin area, you can set which ever theme you intend to use either for your mobile or desktop view...this is amazing right? Keep exploring below.

This is what the GoMobile theme looks like.

The two step installation, as seen below, can’t get any easier:

INSTALLATION
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- 1. Upload the contents of the "Upload" folder to the root of your forums, keeping the folder structure intact.
- 2. Visit your ACP > Configuration > Plugins sections and hit 'Install & Activate' for MyBB GoMobile

How to make GoMobile work with MyBB 1.8

Login to your CPANEL or FTP Server, locate File manager, click on 'PUBLIC_HTML' folder, Find gomobile.php file in the /inc/plugins/ folder and change the compatibility line from 16* to 18*. Look for something that resembles what I included below.

function plugin_name_info ()
{
return [
'name'           => 'plugin name',
'description'    => 'plugin description',
'website'        => 'website of the plugin',
'author'         => 'author',
'authorsite'     => 'website again',
'version'        => 'version',
'codename'       => 'code name',
'compatibility'  => '16', //What YOU'RE looking for
];
}

What is in red is what you want to edit. and click save.

2. Responsive theme

There're lots and lots of responsive and mobile friendly MYBB themes to use, this themes includes;

Naija Words Mobile Theme - Green 

Mybb Netpen theme

Emerald Mybb Theme

BootBB Theme

Mine craft Mybb Theme
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Classic Blue Mybb Theme

Others includes: Volare, BootBB, Responsive gaming theme, Audentio, BlackPlayers, Serifon, Agood and more.
 A question was asked about the best Mybb forum themes one can use, find out more CLICK HERE..