Make your blog mobile phone accessible
In today’s world a lot of users have mobile devices. Just recently I installed a WordPress plugin that converted my blog so that mobile phones could access it. I think this is a very good plugin for being free. I saw this on Problogger.net when he announced that his blog is mobile accessible.
The plugin that I use is called WPTouch. It looks like Iphone theme but it works on all of mobile devices. When I went to my website with my Motorola Droid without WPTouch it would error out because of my Aweber popup sign up box. It also wouldn’t work when I was using an Ipod Touch visiting my website.
Here is what WPTouch looks like when someone goes to the main page of your blog.
This is what WPTouch looks like when someone clicks on a post.
If you want to be accessible to more people then I think this is a must thing for any blog. With WPTouch you can put in your Google publisher ID so you can show AdSense for Mobile Content. With mobile browsers this can open up another way for people to click on your banners on your site. With installing WPTouch I had $.21 ad click. I think it can be a great thing money wise. If you want to download WPTouch then Click Here. What do you think about this plugin?
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wow. pretty hot! Thanks for sharing. I’ll install that plugIn! MANY THX… rso i’ll also get ur rss…
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I looked at that plugin too, but after determining that it didn’t work well with Blackberries I changed my mind. Blackberry has now passed iPhone as the most popular smartphone, so leaving it out could be a mistake.
I just tried to bring your site up on my BB too (non-touch) and after several minutes it was still running scripts.
For now, I chose to use viewMobile plugin, which changes the theme of your site, but it loads so fast and works with just about any phone you can think of.
I am still doing some research on this topic too…
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viewMobile plugin I had to put in Android for the user agent for it to work on my phone. What I am doing now is useing viewmobile for non touch phones and WPTouch for touch phones.
In ViewMobile I took out the user agents for the Iphone, Touch, and Opera Mini, and left everything else in the user agents.
I think that will work. Let me know if it works for you. In your blackberry you should see the viewMobile plugin working. Thanks Greg Ellison
Also take a look at the WordPress Mobile Pack:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mobile-pack/
It supports all types of devices out of the box, and plenty of other functionality (ads, barcodes etc) that might be quite interesting.
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Just got my HTC HD2. Will try out this plug-in soon.
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Well I tried viewmobile plugin and WPTouch together but it didn’t work out. This morning I was viewing the page and couldn’t get Google Adsense to work on the new post. I deactivated viewmobile and it worked. I really like the page that you see with WPTouch for touch phones, but I don’t want to leave anyone behind. I also tried what James Pearce suggested and gave that a try. It worked good but I still like the look of WPTouch.
Yes it is very hard to pick the right mobile plugin. I will keep trying at it. For now I will keep WPTouch in place. Thanks for all of the suggestions. Greg Ellison
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ya nice plugin to access our wordpress blg in mobile..
Thats a great idea. Im always impressed with the plugins WP has.
Thanks for the interesting post
I recommend you to have a look at your blog from mobile. I see no content. I can see title and comment form only.
What kind of mobile phone? Is it touchscreen or other type? Thanks Greg
Thanks for the heads up Greg . Im already using wptouch plugin on my blog and IMO its must have plugin for every blog.
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WP Touch was way to complicated for me to setup and seemed a bit slow on my blog thus i settled for WordPress Mobile Pack which has been working just fine, i must say.
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Hey, we are currently developing a solution to make mobile versions of your blog. (it’s not limited to WP, so not a plugin). It’s great to read here what you find important in a blog. But any further ideas are welcome. (btw: the alpha version of the tool is at flurp.siruna.com)