After reading how wordpress.com implemented not one but two mobile versions for all of their 4.5 million hosted blogs, I decided to install the same WPtouch-plugin on this very blog as well.
Installation and activation of a new plugin is very straightforward from within the wordpress admin-screens. In the case of WPtouch (and every other plugin that produces alternatives views of the same content on the same URL) however, there is a conflict with the WP super cache plugin which needs to be resolved by basically telling the cache-plugin to not handle request from browsers with “mobile” useragent-strings.
After that WP super cache config hack, your blog has a mobile section which you can tailor to your needs in the WPtouch config screen. These are some of the settings I changed:
- removed categories and tags from the header (didn’t seem to work anyhow)
- added most of my pages to the dropdown menu in the header
- excluded my lifestream-digest posts from being displayed
- removed author from and added excerpt to individual posts
If anyone visits this site with their mobile browser and stuff doesn’t work, your feedback is welcome!
Apparently commenting did not work in mobile view, I had to disable ‘ajax comments’ to fix this. Weird …