WordPress.com goes mobile with WPTouch plugin
Don’t be surprised if your WordPress.com blog has iPhone apps looks alike when you browsed it from iPhone or Android smartphone. This impressive interface change is the work of WPTouch plugin, which was rolled out by WordPress few days ago to all WordPress.com blogs.
Not all smartphone capable of displaying such interface within their web browser. For other smart phone, WordPress still provide mobile friendly looks to the WordPress.com blog as well, using WordPress Mobile Edition plugin. Although it still have better readability, but its looks less beauty than what WPTouch can do.
Apart from beauty and better readability (font is big, hiding original theme) its load faster in mobile browser as well.
WordPress hosted blog who wish to have similar looks like their peer in WordPress.com, cab grab the plugin and activate it. Just make sure you aware that,unlike WordPress.com blog, if your blog viewed on non iPhone or Android smartphone, normal view will be showed instead.
Enjoy the screen shot taken from this blog on iPhone.
p/s: for those who don’t know, WordPress.com is free blog hosted by WordPress.com using WordPress as the CMS as well
Home view -top
Home view – bottom
Single post view
Comment Section
Drop down menu beside the header
Click the small arrow beside the title to expand the post
Option to switch to normal view
its like accessing Blogger.com from Blackberry mobiles, i loved this pluggin, till now i was updating my blog with browsers, but now i can do it directly by installing such pluggins, thanks to developer.
Cool, I’m going to try this plugin out later tonight. It’s smart to have a mobile-readable WP blog because it really expands the options for your readers.
Finally, i could access wordpress using my iPhone. This is cool because you can update everywhere you are. Great post, thanks!
I didn’t get. Does this plugin require special wordpress template?
@Daniel – For wordpress.com blog, no action required. For wordpress self hosted blog, you need to install the plugin, not template
@Admin Thanks ))
thank u man … now publish any thing become easy … i have many wordpress blogs