Does your Blog Need a Mobile WordPress Plug-in?
If you have a blog, don’t assume it will translate perfectly to
mobile: Chances are, it has at least 2 columns, and runs ads,
graphics and is set for a screen width that’s (at absolute
minimum) 760 px wide.
Besides, even if it was able to load in and emerge with a
readable format, you need to remember that many people are paying
heavily for each megabyte downloaded on their mobiles (not to
mention for the time)… and they’re not going to wait twenty
minutes for all your graphics and plug-ins to load.
One superb and very user-friendly plug in is WordPress Mobile
edition. If you can’t find it by searching the plug-in section
via your blog Dashboard, you can easily download it from
WordPress.org’s plug-in section. (It even allows comments -
something that is often a problem.)
One word of caution: If you have one of the smaller mobile
phones, avoid the popular Carrington theme recommended on the
WordPress.org WordPress Mobile editions page.)
According to WordPress.org, this plug-in works particularly well
on Blackberries, iPhones, Androids, touch phones, all wireless,
and PDA.
Advertising, Anyone?
If you want to display ads, the Mippin Mobilize plug-in (also
found at WordPress.org) is a configuration-free plug in. It works
by redirecting other mobile users to Mippin’s rendering of your
blog. This is a nice plug-in, because it scales photographs to
conform to your mobile site visitor’s screen width, and converts
vides to 3G format.
Customization, Anyone?
If you’d rather customize your blog theme somewhat, a plug-in you
might like is MobilePress. This one isn’t available at
WordPress.org, but you can find it on its home site,
mobilepress.co.za/.
It’s biggest benefit: Allowing you to use customized themes, and
it also allows specific themes for the iPhone, as well as the
Opera Mini browser and Windows CE Mobile. (Surprisingly simple to
install!)
So there you have it: 3 fantastic plug-ins to help your WordPress
blog go mobile.
(Perhaps the new mobile technology is going to end up being
easier to adapt to than we think!
http://nickbullimore.com/blog/MobileReadyWebsites
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