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iWPhone: WordPress plugin renders for iPhone
I run my personal site using WordPress, and one reason I like using it so much is that (although this is hardly exclusive to WordPress as a content manager) is all the great plugins available for it. On another site I ran under WordPress, I loved using the WP-Print plugin-- it automatically creates a "printable" version of each page on your site. All of the printer compatibility, none of the actual work.And now, someone's cooked up an iPhone version of that same plugin, where you simply install the WP plugin on your blog (for WordPress 2.2.1), and instantly you can see all your posts formatted specifically for the iPhone. Instead of creating a whole other, "mobile" version of your site, you can simply put in this plugin, and you can get a link that will reformat your content for the iPhone or iPod touch. Very excellent.
If you run a WordPress blog or site and were thinking about creating a version of it for the iPhone or iPod touch, your work is done. Download the iWPhone plugin from Content.Robot, install it, and you're set.
Thanks, Philapple!
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jack.givens said 9:04PM on 10-12-2007
Thanks. Seems to work well on my site (site-51.com). Looks clean but the other elements like Blog Rolls are not available.
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Jared said 9:35PM on 10-12-2007
Not sure if this has been covered here, but in addition to this plug-in for formatting your blog for the iPhone/iPod Touch, I came across this WP plug-in that gives you an iP/iPT admin interface for managing your WP blog as well:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mobileadmin/
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Christopher Finke said 9:38PM on 10-12-2007
Why format a website specifically for the iPhone? Isn't the point of mobile Safari that it can show you the real unvarnished Web without special phone-only formatting?
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symour said 1:39AM on 10-13-2007
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and one more thing you could do this once only but i know a way to do it more than one. and willing to share it to tuaw.com staff tnx
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ocellnuri said 2:06AM on 10-13-2007
Today I ran across another great iPhone/Touch Wordpress plugin.
http://wphoneplugin.org/
Wphone lets you have a Mobile Safari formatted Admin dashboard. It lets you write/manage posts, pages, and even approve/spam comments. It is very early in development and has a few formatting bugs, but I've been completely blown away with it so far!
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pickupjojo said 8:43AM on 10-13-2007
Thank you so much for the WP plugin!
It's so useful!
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oshawapilot said 10:06AM on 10-13-2007
The WP admin plugin linked above seems to be of much more use, IMHO. I'm all for having the admin portion of my blog formatted specifically for my iPhone - the actual blog page itself, not so much.
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Mike Schramm said 11:54AM on 10-13-2007
In the future, guys, you should share tips with us via our tips line (http://www.tuaw.com/tips/). Putting them in comments will just get them lost in the mix.
And yes Jared and ocellnun, thanks for those links as well! Both very awesome plugins.
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Joe Maller said 1:50PM on 10-13-2007
There are two WP iPhone Admin plugins currently in development:
Mobile Admin by Jared Bangs and Dan Cameron.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mobileadmin/
WPhone by Stephane Daury, Doug Stewart, and Viper007Bond
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mobileadmin/
Having tried both, I've found Mobile Admin to be more polished and bug-free. WPhone, while closer to how I imagine WP should work on iPhone, is hampered by several rendering bugs and chunky transitions. Both plugins have a ways to go, but either one is an improvement over the un-plugged dashboard.
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James said 2:28PM on 10-13-2007
iWPhone turnis your site into what is basically the same thing as the RSS feed version... I'm not sure what it's really accomplishing.
Mobile Admin, on the other hand, is awesome.
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Mo said 3:05PM on 10-13-2007
@Christopher Finke:
Yes, MobileSafari is (almost) as capable as its desktop counterpart, and the zooming/scrolling is wonderful—you CAN use normal sites that aren't specifically designed for the iPhone (even more-so if they're designed sensibly).
However, that zooming in/out can become irritating, and although it comes close nobody can argue that it's entirely equivalent to a site that copes itself with the constraints of the iPhone's display.
Plus, many of the “designed for iPhone” sites are actually web *applications*, rather than ordinary sites, and so require a great deal more interaction than say, the New York Times website, and the experience is a lot more fluid if the webapp matches the look and feel of the iPod/iPhone itself.
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Maynard Handley said 4:35PM on 10-13-2007
Or you can just get google to do the work for you.
Go to the URL http://www.google.com/gwt/n and enter your URL of interest. Google will generate a page, with (a permanent URL at the top you can cut and paste and use again) which is formatted for mobile devices and optimized to squirt over the air and format as fast as possible.
It's not 100% perfect, but it works pretty darn well for all the blogs I care about except arstechnica.
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Shannon said 1:56AM on 10-14-2007
Works well on my site, thanks for the plugin
http://www.mcmahonweb.com
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sorrowman said 4:47AM on 10-14-2007
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sorrowman said 4:56AM on 10-14-2007
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Adrian vG said 7:25AM on 10-14-2007
This one is great and easy to install! thanks!
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Stephane Daury said 5:01PM on 10-20-2007
Hi there,
I'm Stephane, one of the developers of the WPhone admin plugin.
Just wanted to say: check out the latest 1.2 release. :)
A lot of the bugs we had in the previous versions have now been addressed (spacing, etc), mainly because we've finally been able to preview the app on an actual iPod Touch, which someone lent me for the weekend.
We had been flying blind on the iPhone/iPod front so far, using Marketcircle's iPhoney for preview while not having access to an actual device prior to last Friday night. :)
And to conclude, I also wanted to mention that the webkit/webcore compatible interface 9iUI) is only one of our support modes. The core focus of WPhone is actually full support for the widest array of mobile, lightweight and accessibility devices: "non-smart" phones like my Motorola v551 (pre-RAZR, les RAM, about the same browser), smart phones, PDA and micro-tablets, ,braille readers, screen readers, etc.
So whether you have an iPhone/iPod Touch, or any web-capable device, please try WPhone and help us out with feedback in the forums. :)
Cheers to the TUAW crew.
SD
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