Blogs on the Go: WordPress.com Goes Mobile
The millions of blogs on WordPress.com will now have a clean mobile theme turned on by default, removing most of the formatting and making the sites easy to load on a phone. WordPress bloggers may want to opt-out of the new setting; not everyone likes how the first mobile themes selected by WordPress look.
As we wrote earlier today though, consumers are not happy with how the mobile web is performing. Turning on mobile themes by default could be one small step towards solving that problem in the large territory that is WordPress.
One theme, WPTouch, will be displayed on the iPhone, Android and other modern browsers and another simpler theme will be shown to users of other phones. WPTouch is not the only option available if users are instead on WordPress.org. Another favorite is Carrington Mobile.
Earlier this month WordPress announced that users can now more easily publish links to their new blog posts out into the world's defacto light-weight RSS reader, Twitter.
From the slow emergence of mobile reading and publishing to the unwillingness of carrierers to solve bandwidth problems, it's clear that the mobile web is still in its very early stages. For now, little things like this make a very big difference.
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Not true, this: "One theme, WPTouch, will be displayed for iPhone users and another simpler theme will be shown to users of other phones."
My wp.com-hosted blog shows up with WPtouch on my G1. The announcement post states that WPtouch will be used for "phones with modern web browsers like those on the iPhone and Android." See:
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/the-hero-is-in-your-pocket/
http://changingway.org/2009/10/20/android-anniversary-avalanche-automattic-etc/
Posted by: changingway.org
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October 20, 2009 10:23 AM
Thanks Changing, I've fixed the article to reflect that.
why not try dotMobi mobile pack? it is perfect for mobile phones with auto-detect.
I especially like the bookmarking feature, because it is so easy to add to my blogroll!
This is excellent.
What else is great, is the ability to jot something down, and save it as a draft, to edit later in the regular editor. I get many ideas all the time, but I don’t always blog about all of them, because it takes me too long to open the editor, then save the draft, etc. I like this a lot.
Thanks guys!
There's another option for self hosted blogs - that's the Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress.
It makes your blog look amazing on every device, not just an iphone/android/top-end phone, and is fully customizable so you can really tailor your mobile offering.
You can upload a mobile logo too so you can match your web theme perfectly and retain your brand identity.
The URL is http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wapple-architect/ and it'd be great to hear your thoughts on it.
well its really useful to have wordpress on my mobile...nice post
Yes we all support such improvements
I have always been great fan/user of wordpress and the mainly because it is every evolving! Great work guys at wordpress and all the open source devolopers around the globe!
this apps is awesome! every blogger that owns iphone should use it :)
Good man keep it up.you always give som good and more usefull information.that help us more.we like it and ur work also.thanks again man
its really useful to have wordpress on my mobile