This week I’ve got a lot on my mind about mobile blogs, site accessibility, and promoting community amongst the readers of a site. Today’s installment covers the steps I’ve taken to make this site mobile friendly.
1) Install the MobilePress plugin. This plugin serves up a lo-fi version of the site when your browser identifies itself as iPhone, iPod, Windows CE, Blackberry, or a few other key words.
2) Install the WPTouch plugin. This is like MobilePress but it’s specifically customized for the iPhone. Mobile Safari seems to be the Cadillac of mobile browsers, so why not give it something blingy.
3) Give up on the WP Super Cache plugin. As much as I liked this (and as cool as author Donncha is supposed to be) I had to downgrade to the slightly less cachey WP-Cache plugin because that one plays nice with WPTouch. UPDATE: I’m currently using MobilePress and WP Super Cache as of 3/2009. I decided caching was more important than the WPTouch look. My only current gripe is MobilePress formatting trouble with DISQUS (unreadable) and with some of the HTML tables I’ve used in recent posts.
That’s the quick hits on making your WP blog mobile-friendly. I’ve finally eaten my own dogfood when it comes to mobile support. This site should look just dandy on iPhones, Blackberries, and the like. PLEASE let me know if that’s not the case for you.
The next few posts in this space will discuss mobile needs on sites other than blogs. I’ll also show you how to get a mobile look for a non-Wordpress site.
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