The other day I received an email from Ryan Wade at Unique Apps regarding his Web site not being mobile friendly. What this means is that when someone visits a site that isn’t mobile friendly, the site can take up to 30 seconds or longer to load. When I am on the go, I visit my site through my iPhone and did notice the load time to be quite long but failed to act on it.
I also noticed through the Statpress plug-in that I was getting many views through the iPhone. Therefore, I went out searching for ways to make the site mobile friendly and came upon a WordPress plug-in that makes this as easy as 123. The plug-in is called MobilePress.
After installation of the plug-in, I went into the admin section of WordPress and customized how the site will render on a mobile device. MobilePress also gives the blogger the ability to change how the theme will look on a mobile device. MobilePress currently has three different themes. The themes are iPhone 1.0 by TinyImpact, default theme, and a default iPhone theme.
I went with the iPhone 1.0 by TinyImpact because of the clean look. It is also possible to change the blog title and blog description. Once I installed MobilePress I went to see how fast the load speed would be on the iPhone. The load speed was less than five seconds. When viewing the mobile site on the iPhone, it displays the last three-blog posts, blog pages, and a search box. There is a next page section right underneath the latest blog posts so if someone wanted to scroll through older posts it would be a cinch.
If you want to view the full site, at the bottom contains a link to view full site. I think this is a must have plug-in for all serious bloggers. Smartphones are going to keep growing and users are going to want fast load times (me included). The MobilePress plug-in can be downloaded from HERE.
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Thanks for this info! I have been search mobile phone view plugin for long time. It is because I aware that many people use their mobile phone to access internet.
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It really makes a difference in the site load time.
Awesome, now I can easily check the blog on my iPod.
You have mentioned a nice plugin. INSHALLAH i will install this plugin.Thanks for sharing this plugin
Tekshek,
No problem buddy.
This is really useful information. I’m just starting out in the blogging world with my site..
http://www.thetechguyblog.com
And I was really curious as to how to make my site more mobile friendly! Thank you for the information!
The load times on the iPhone are phenomenal after the installation of this plug in.
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