Is your WordPress Website compatible with all browsers? Make a cross-browser compatibility test and check how your website looks in different browsers. Consider any website and it doesn’t look same on all browsers, unless some special tweaks are made to it. Apart from designing a perfect WordPress theme, it is necessary to check the look and feel in multiple browsers. Well, there are many popular browsers available to surf internet and every one of us have a personal choice. Keeping this in mind, you have to work on things to make every part of theme or template compatible with all major browsers.
What is Cross-Browser Compatibility?
This is not a new concept and is being followed by many designers and developers for years. If any website looks and functions same on all browsers, then we can consider that as cross-browser compatible. Browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome can easily adjust the new technologies, but coming to the Internet Explorer, special care is to be taken.
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Test Cross-Browser Compatibility of WordPress Website
If you are webmaster or a blogger using WordPress, then make sure your website is compatible with all major browsers. Visitors of your blog will use different types of browsers and different devices to browse the contents, so to create an amazing user experience and to make things better, you need to make a quick cross-browser compatibility test.
Free Tools to Test Cross-Browser Compatibility of WordPress Website
Here is the list of some free online tools that helps to have a cross-browser compatibility test on your WordPress blog. All these tools mentioned are already tested by us and they work really great.
Adobe BrowserLab: Our first choice is Adobe BrowserLab, which got many great options to live test any website on different browsers and operating systems. Just login with your Adobe account and test your website now. You can also live test any website while designing it, by using a free firebug addon also.
Browser Shots: Another popular free online source to easily test the cross-browser compatibility. Submit the URL, select the browsers you want to test and wait till the screenshots are prepared. Another good thing is, you can test your website by enabling or disabling scripts in your theme also.
Cross-Browser Testing: Crossbrowser testing includes each and every single option, to deeply test the cross-browser compatibility of any website. Just select the OS, browser to start with the process and to check the wide range of results. Premium plans are available, you can try if for free also.
Browser Sandbox: Yet another free online tool to test compatibility and it includes all the 5 major browsers. This tool is created by Spoon.net and it works really fast. Different versions of browsers are available and all you have to do it click on “Run” button. You need to create an account before using this.
Expression SuperPreview: Created by Microsoft to test compatibility of website across IE6, IE7 and IE8. Its a stand alone application and can be used as a debugging tool. There is a hard impression among developers that IE sucks big time and this tool surely helps to make things better in less possible time.
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What Next?
So, now you have tested your WordPress website and is not cross-browser compatible. You can follow some online resources or can use our services to make your website completely compatible with all major browsers.
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Wow, those are some great tools. Thanks for sharing the list Bharat. I normally use Adobe BrowserLab to check whether my site is compatible with all the browsers or not, the other tools are quite new to me. Thanks for this great post buddy.
Thanks for dropping by Priyangshu. Glad you like these ultimate tools list.
I Use this website when I am making sites using html and css but not when using CMS
I use Browser Shots and that works quite great for me
I really didn’t know about its possible to check cross browser compatibility online
Tnx buddy for this tips 
Nice list for web devs!
I have always been using Browsershot, hearing the others for the first time, will certainly check them out.
A gr8 collection of cross browser testing resources. However me and all my web designing community friends most often wonder which browsers are important and which to leave out. It’s always a trade off between efforts and rendering. The 4 Main Browsers to Test Your Website Rendering In helped me understand browser traffic and also helped me save my efforts and time in avoiding unnecessary coding for lesser important browser. Hope your readers do benefit from it.