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Make your Wordpress Blog Mobile Ready

Posted by zee on July 10th, 2008

With iPhone 3G hitting the market and high speed internet access is easily available on cell phone, more people are using their cell phones to browse internet. Access to internet via mobile grew up to 147% in 2007 and is expected to take a huge jump after the 3G networks & cell phones goes common. Being a blogger its time you should think about accessibility of your blog from a cell phone. So how do you make your blog cell phone friendly.

To do so there are two aspects and two plugins required. One that will make your blog posts accessible by showing an interface designed for mobile device and the other that will make your admin panel accessible for your use on a mobile device.

Make your Blog Posts Mobile Accessible with Wordpress Mobile Edition Plug-in
WordPress Mobile Edition is a plug-in that shows an interface designed for a mobile device when visitors come to your site on a mobile device. Mobile browsers are automatically detected, there is no configuration needed. All you have to do is install the plug in activate it and you are ready to go. But there is one flaw it only makes your blog’s post mobile accessible and does not help you out in using its admin panel. So for that there is another plug-in listed below.

Make your Blog Admin Panel Accessible with Wordpress WPhone Plug-in

WPhone is a great plug-in if you wish to manage your blog from a cell phone, This award winning WPhone plugin creates an option while logging in to replace the default admin interface with the one designed for your phone. It contains two version for the mobile admin:

  1. Rich Interface designed for iPhone / iPod and other phones supporting full js & css with fancy Ajax
  2. Lite interface designed for a simple version with no Js ot any complex styling just simple.

This plugin is designed for use with the latest version of WordPress, but will work with versions 2.1 and newer.

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