Extension:MobileFrontend/Configuration

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MobileFrontend supports various configuration options that you can define in LocalSettings.php after calling wfLoadExtension( 'MobileFrontend' ); or require_once "$IP/extensions/MobileFrontend/MobileFrontend.php";.

Note that for a simple site adding $wgMFAutodetectMobileView = true; might be all you need to make it Just Work™.

All configuration options

All configuration options are details in the README.md file

Configuring mobile browser auto detection

See Configuring browser auto-detection

Configuring the main page

Configuring a skin

~~At time of writing, MobileFrontend is packaged up with the Minerva skin.~~

You can override this by using the configuration flag $wgDefaultMobileSkin

By default this is configured to:

// $wgDefaultMobileSkin = 'vector'; // use Vector skin for your mobile site skin.
// $wgDefaultMobileSkin = 'timeless'; // Use Timeless skin for your mobile site skin.
$wgDefaultMobileSkin = 'minerva'; // Default - use Minerva as your mobile site skin.

Enable Nearby

MobileFrontend provides the Special:Nearby page with a little configuration. To get this to work a few optional steps are required:

Due to browser security you will need to be running a secure site over SSL: it is not possible to request a users location over HTTP
Install GeoData
Run update.php
In LocalSettings.php add $wgMFNearby = true;
Add data to your articles to one or more pages {{#coordinates:37.786971|-122.399677|primary}} see the documentation for GeoData for syntax details

Alternatively you can use an alien MediaWiki instance for Nearby with the following 2 lines in your LocalSettings. The nearby endpoint will be used to find related content to a given location.

$wgMFNearbyEndpoint = 'http://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/api.php';
$wgMFNearby = true;