Serve a lightweight mobile theme to phones while keeping desktops on your primary theme. Includes dedicated tablet routing.

Seth Smigelski

Ever wanted to serve a dedicated theme to visitors on handheld devices instead of a theme that is fine-tuned for big screen traffic?
Slim Mobile Theme Switcher is a highly optimized, lightweight plugin designed for websites that need to serve a different theme to mobile devices while preserving the primary desktop experience.
Instead of relying on clunky, resource-heavy device detection libraries, this plugin uses streamlined, modern user-agent detection to instantly route users to the correct theme before the page even loads.
<h3>Key Features</h3>
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<li>Three-way Theme Routing: Serve up to three different themes simultaneously. Set one theme for Mobile Phones, one for Desktops, and optionally enable a dedicated theme specifically for Tablets (iPads/Android tablets).</li>
<li>True Mobile Detection: Uses refined regex to separate small-screen phones from tablets (iPads/Android tablets).</li>
<li>Zero-Friction Setup: Select your themes from a simple dropdown menu. No coding required.</li>
<li>Manual Overrides: Allow users to manually switch between views using <code>?theme=handheld</code> or <code>?theme=active</code> or <code>?theme=tablet</code>.</li>
<li>Persistent Choice: Activating the ‘Remember Visitor’s Choice’ option ensures that when a user has manually selected a different theme, this preference is saved for 30 days via cookies.</li>
<li>No Bloat: Zero front-end CSS or JS added by the plugin itself.</li>
<li>Developer Friendly: Built by a developer for developers.</li>
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