Writing WordPress plugins so they’re available in every language is a big ask. Which is why it’s taken us a while to release the latest version of WordPress Mobile Admin (3.0) as this was the major focus for the release.
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Tagged with:Mobile Browser Detection, Mobile Device Detection, Mobile Web Development, Wapple Mobile Internet and Mobile Web Development Tools, Wordpress Mobile, wordpress mobile admin, wordpress mobile admin theme
Just before Christmas, we mobilized HowToMakeMyBlog.com by installing and configuring the Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress.
I’ve written a much more in-depth article over there about how we did it, but here’s a bite-sized version that you can cut out and put in your wallet:
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Tagged with:Mobile Friendly Websites, Mobile Phone Detection, Mobile Plugins, Mobile Web Development, Wordpress Mobile, Wordpress Mobile Plugin, Wordpress Mobile Theme
Posted by Rich Gubby on December 29, 2009 at 8:21 amFiled under: Mobile Web Development, Wordpress Mobile
Two weeks ago Automattic released a new version of WordPress (2.9). As it’s Christmas, we thought we’d enter into the spirit of things and release an updated version of the Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress as a present.
We’ve listened to all of your feedback, ideas and suggestions – and as we’ve now got a fancy issue tracking system, we’ve been able to prioritise all of them and create a development roadmap. However, saying that, it became pretty obvious what the focus of this release was going to be – mobile themes.
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Tagged with:automattic, contact form 7, issue tracking, mobile theme, Mobilize Websites and Blogs, powerpress, roadmap, trac, wordpress 2.9, Wordpress Mobile, Wordpress Mobile Theme

Last month we published a new mobile plugin to the wordpress.org plugin repository called WordPress Mobile Admin. It won’t surprise you to hear that it does exactly what it says on the tin and mobilizes your WordPress control panel.
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Tagged with:Mobile Web Development, Wordpress Developers, Wordpress Mobile, wordpress mobile admin, wordpress mobile admin theme, Wordpress Mobile Plugin, Wordpress Mobile Theme

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been releasing updates to my wordpress plugin. A bug fix here, a new option there. You’ve got configurable menus, support for Cyrillic character sets and much, much more.
But the backlog of new features has been growing and it needed a big update to clear the decks! So yesterday signalled the release of the latest incarnation of my Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress – version 1.5!
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Tagged with:Coding Mobile Web Pages, foreign characters on mobile, Mobile Browser Detection, Mobile Device Detection, Mobilize Websites and Blogs, Wordpress Mobile, Wordpress Mobile Plugin
Posted by Rich Gubby on August 17, 2009 at 4:07 pmFiled under: Mobile Internet, Mobile Plugins, Wordpress Mobile
After a number of releases of the mobile plugin for WordPress, you’d think I’d want to put my feet up for a bit and have a well deserved rest and a cup of tea. But not a bit of it! I’ve been burning the midnight oil to get version 1.4 ready for release so that you have even more control and even more ways to mobilize your blog.
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Tagged with:Mobile Friendly Websites, Mobile Internet, Mobile Plugins, Mobilize Websites and Blogs, Wordpress Mobile, Wordpress Mobile Plugin
Posted by Rich Gubby on August 4, 2009 at 1:57 pmFiled under: Mobile Plugins, Wordpress Mobile
Since its launch in June, the Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress has seen a huge amount of usage. So much so that it now deserves a showcase article discussing success stories so far about blogs that have installed the plugin.
Hopefully your site is one of those featured, but if not, don’t despair because I’m going to include a few tips and tricks at the end of this article that will mean that in the next showcase, I can’t fail to include yours!
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Tagged with:Coding Mobile Web Pages, mobile css, Mobile Website Development, Mobilize Websites and Blogs, Wordpress Mobile, Wordpress Mobile Plugin, WordPress mobile plugin for 2.8, Wordpress Mobile Theme
Today marks another significant milestone in the evolution of the Wapple Architect mobile plugin for WordPress – version 1.2 has been released into the wild!
There’s been some great feedback from version 1.1 as well as a whole load of suggestions and feature requests and I’ve tried to implement as many of them as I can.
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Tagged with:Architect, Mobile Friendly Websites, Mobile Website Development, Mobilize Websites and Blogs, Wordpress Developers, Wordpress Mobile, Wordpress Mobile Plugin, WordPress mobile plugin for 2.8
We received the following comment from Jeff Miller on the ‘removing scrollbars‘ article.
“Your site doesnt even show up on any mobile phone, other than maybe an iphone. But doing a test on your site it show up very bad on other phones which most of the world use. it only scores a 3/5 on ready.mobi and its very hard to navigate on phones. Obviously you are not the mobile web junkie but the wapple (wurfl rip off hosting solution) for iphone junkie.”
Ouch. Oh well, there’s always one… The reply got kinda long but turned out to be quite a good read. So I thought it would be nice to post it as an article. Here it is: Read more
Tagged with:Architect, Coding Mobile Web Pages, Mobile Browser Detection, Mobile Development Platform, Mobile Device Detection, Mobile Friendly Websites, Mobile Phone Detection, Mobile Publishing Platform, Mobile Site Builder, Mobile Website Development, WAPL, Wordpress Developers, Wordpress Mobile, Wordpress Mobile Plugin

As I needed to create a home page for my WordPress mobile plugin other than that at wordpress.org, I’ve created this post in order to fulfill both that need and provide a forum for people to comment and contribute.
The text is taken straight from the readme file, so if you’ve arrived here rather than the official page at WP, at least you can get the information you need! If you just want to download the plugin, here’s a direct link.
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Tagged with:Architect, Mobile Friendly Websites, Mobilize Websites and Blogs, Wordpress Developers, Wordpress Mobile, Wordpress Mobile Plugin
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