A Must-Have WordPress Plugin for Local Blogs

by Matt on Oct 8, 2008 in Blogging

WPTouch screenshot 1If you’re a WordPress blogger, and you’re interested in having your blog content be customized for display on the iPhone and iPod Touch, you’ll want to use this plugin:

WPTouch: WordPress on the iPhone

WPTouch creates a custom theme for your blog that’s only shown to iPhone and iPod Touch users. And, the theme has a few tweaks you can make, too. Yes, the iPhone and iPod Touch have a basically standard Safari web browser and using it is often just like using a regular computer. But the benefit of using a plugin like WPTouch is that your blog loads light years faster because of the lighter theme.

I just installed the plugin here on HyperLocal Blogger. The image at right is what the “home page” looks like on my iPhone; I think it looks terrific, and it loaded almost instantaneously.

When you click into an individual blog post, it continues to have a very readable, elegant appearance. Here are a couple screenshots of the post immediately before this one, about the outside.in hyperlocal blog series:

WPTouch screenshot - blog post

I love the little flair on the blockquote (left) and even the comments look good. It’s a very iPhone-friendly theme — certainly not a necessity for local blogging success, but one of those “nice to have” additions if you expect a fair amount of visitors using the iPhone or IPod Touch.

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October 8, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging 

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4 Responses to “A Must-Have WordPress Plugin for Local Blogs”

  1. martijn on October 9th, 2008 1:46 am

    Hi Matt,
    I’ve read about this plugin and do think its really really nice. However I’ve read that it doesnt seem to work with wp-supercache. Do you have any experience with this/tested it?

  2. Matt on October 9th, 2008 9:21 am

    Hi Martin — I don’t use supercache, but if you click through to the page linked above, they talk about it. :-)

  3. Ted Dancin' on October 9th, 2008 7:41 pm

    Holy moly. This is such a great plugin. Thanks, Matt.

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