Guide to Mobilize your Wordpress blog
Now it’s spreading like a mobile phone mania and usage of internet in mobile phones is growing tremendously. So it is good/must to mobilize your blog/website to make sure that your blog/site is accessible from the largest medium(mobile).
This post will guide you to make your wordpress blog a mobile friendly blog.
With just 2 plugins, we can do it by our self with very basic and easy steps. Here is the guide.
So far, this is the best wordpress plugin for mobilizing your wordpress blog. MobilePress allows you to customize your blog with theme support for normal mobile phones as well as for Windows smartphones and iPhones.
MobilePress has an option for rotating your blog theme exclusively for
- Windows Smartphone
- Opera Mini
- iPhone
If you are having a blog only for mobile phone views, then you can very well make it to be viewable only as a mobile blog.
MobilePress doesn’t support a separate subdomain for your blog’s mobile version. Instead it will automatically change your blog into a mobile version as per the mobile phone.
This plugin will be an essential one after you find out a serious problem with the MobilePress plugin. MobilePress includes the ad code provided by plugins like Easy Adsenser, AdSense Manager, All in One Adsense and YPN, etc in your blog posts/pages.
Hence if you are having a 468 x 60 ad in your normal wordpress blog post/page and after you mobilize it using MobilePress plugin, the 468 x 60 ad will still be visible when it is viewed in a mobile phone. This is not a mobile friendly option.
My recommendation is to use Post Layout plugin to avoid such conflicts. This wonderful plugin supports you to add specific code for both the desktop browsers and for mobile devices. This will be useful if you want to insert Mobile Google AdSense ads in your post/page.
- MobilePress vs MoFuse vs Google Reader
There are some other solutions for mobilizing your blog. Services like MoFuse and Google Reader will be useful one but upto a certain limit.
- MoFuse will mobilize your blog by using its RSS feed only. For example, if your blog has around 1000 posts and your RSS feed provides the latest 10 posts, then MoFuse will only show those latest 10 posts from the RSS feeds. Hence it is not as good since it is actually mobilizing your blog feeds only.
- Google Reader will be good if you are using it since you have posted your first blog article. This is because Google reader will continuously aggregate/store your blog feeds so that it can mobilize as much as 1000 posts. But remember it will be only useful if you are using it since you have posted the first post in your blog.
- But MobilePress plugin will make your entire blog as a mobile friendly one so that the user can search, browse through all of your blog posts.
For any help regarding this guide, feel free to contact me.
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[...] Wordpress on May 9th, 2009 Well for those who already read my previous post “Guide to Mobilize your Wordpress blog“, Post Layout plugin is a familiar [...]
Apr 28, 2009 @ 5:20 PM
I haven’t tried to put my blog for mobile version. need to try and see how it works out.
Apr 28, 2009 @ 5:23 PM
@Nihar,
Hope I will see your Mobile friendly blog very soon.
Apr 28, 2009 @ 6:11 PM
Great plugins dude. Thanks for sharing…
Apr 28, 2009 @ 6:13 PM
@TechZoomIn,
Thanks for your comment Lax.
Apr 28, 2009 @ 8:35 PM
Nice info for those who wanna go mobile..
Apr 28, 2009 @ 9:28 PM
@Sham,
Thanks for your comment dude.
Apr 29, 2009 @ 12:15 AM
Nice share. I’ll definitely looking forward to try this out.
Apr 29, 2009 @ 12:18 AM
@Maharshi,
I am waiting for your mobilized blog. Thanks for your comment here.
Apr 29, 2009 @ 3:51 AM
Good Find out Dude !
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Apr 29, 2009 @ 10:00 AM
@Karthikeyan,
Thank you dude.
May 01, 2009 @ 4:25 AM
Great man, never know about this plugin. I was panning to create mobile version of my site like m.yourdomain.com
Probably now i don’t have to. have you installed this plugin??
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May 07, 2009 @ 8:21 AM
@Harsh Agrawal,
Ya. I have installed these plugins and are working fine for me. You can have a look on your mobile.
May 09, 2009 @ 8:12 AM
I tried it on my Nokia N95 and it is working great, though I’m unsure how it will treat my adsense advertisement. I think that might break the view in mobile.
Though for now I will try this .. Thanks for the useful post.
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May 09, 2009 @ 3:03 PM
@Harsh Agrawal,
I saw your blog in my mobile and it is looking good. But the problem is with your adsense ads. So try the Post Layout plugin to make it a perfect mobile friendly blog.
Thanks for loving this post buddy.
May 09, 2009 @ 4:53 PM
Can you tell me more about Post layout plugin?
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May 09, 2009 @ 6:23 PM
@Harsh Agrawal,
You can look about the Post Layout plugin here.
May 07, 2009 @ 2:05 PM
Your site looks really cool on mobile. I need to optimize TechPP.com for mobiles as well, thanks for the informative post, will check them out
May 07, 2009 @ 3:05 PM
@Raju,
Thanks buddy. I am eagerly waiting for your mobile version.
Jun 17, 2009 @ 4:16 PM
very useful post thanks will soon mobilize my blog
Jun 17, 2009 @ 5:01 PM
@Atul,
Hi Atul. Happy to see you in this blog. Thanks for your comment. Your blog is really looking cool. I am eagerly watching for it’s mobile version.
Jun 18, 2009 @ 1:28 PM
Thanks Karthik
Aug 26, 2009 @ 11:55 PM
Mobilepress does not support subdomains, but you can still create one.Simply redirect m.yourdomain.com to yourdomain.com/?mobile
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Aug 27, 2009 @ 1:12 PM
@Akshay,
Glad to see you here.
Yes we can do that. But I am not following this method. In my opinion, it is good to maintain the same domain for mobile site too.
Sep 17, 2009 @ 2:11 PM
Apart from using the post layout plug-in to display adsense well, what about adsense in the sidebar. Do you know of a solution for that?
Thanks and have a nice day.
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Sep 17, 2009 @ 10:39 PM
@Udegbunam Chukwudi,
Nice to see you here.
Still now there is not such feature in Post Layout plugin. Thanks for that innovative idea. I will start modifying the code and will send you.
Sep 19, 2009 @ 2:37 PM
Harsh Agrawal showed me the way here. lol. I’ll stay subscribed to the post in hope of a sidebar solution.
Keep you the good work.
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Sep 19, 2009 @ 7:28 PM
@Udegbunam Chukwudi,
Thanks Udegbunam. Harsh is really a good friend of mine and I should thank him too.