8 Best Wordpress Plugins to Make Your Blog Mobile Friendly

November 28th, 2009 by Amit

Nowadays it’s very common to find people browsing the web using their mobiles. Many phones have flooded the market at affordable prices that help you to browse the net with ease. So, it’s always wise to make your blog mobile friendly and easily accessible to those who are viewing your blog in their mobile handsets. We have number of really helpful WordPress plugins that can rescue us in this kind of situation.  Here, I have listed 8 of the best Wordpress plugins that helps you to make your blog mobile friendly.

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#1 – Mobile Admin

Mobile Admin adapts the Wordpress admin UI to be friendly to mobile devices, specifically phones. The iPhone / iPod Touch browser was the first target, but most other mobile browsers are supported at a basic level, and this plugin can be used to customize for specific browsers where desired.

#2 – Wordpress Mobile Edition

Wordpress Mobile Edition is a plugin that shows an interface designed for a mobile device when visitors come to your site on a mobile device. Mobile browsers are automatically detected; the list of mobile browsers can be easily customized on the settings page.

#3 – Mobilize

The Mobilize by Mippin Wordpress Plugin is configurations free add on. Once installed any cell phone accessing your URL will be redirected to the Mippin rendering of your blog. Mippin renders perfectly for every cell phone type. Even the iPhone renders your blog better and faster than going to the direct PC URL. The look of the mobile rendered site can be optionally be configured by the blog site owner and he/she can add adverts too and get 100% of the mobile ad revenue. This service is absolutely free.

#4 – Wordpress Mobile Pack

The WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your Wordpress site and blog. It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out and about.

#5 – Wordpress Mobile by Mobify

Mobify is a web service that makes it possible to customize every component of the mobile look & feel, adapting it for over 5,000 devices. This plugin detects mobile devices and sends them to the appropriate mobile URL. You must register for a free Mobify account at http://mobify.me in order to create and manage the mobile version.

#6 – MobilePress

MobilePress is a free Wordpress plugin which turns your Wordpress blog into a mobile friendly blog when viewed on a cell phone. MobilePress also allows you to create custom mobile themes for different handheld devices and mobile browsers such as the iPhone, Opera Mini and Windows Mobile.

#7 – WPhone Plugin

This is an award winning plugin and it creates an option while logging in to replace the default admin interface with one designed for your phone.  It contains both the rich and lite versions of the mobile admin interface. This plugin is designed for use with the Latest version of Wordpress, but will work with versions 2.1 and newer.

#8 – Wetomo Wordpress to Mobile

Wetomo (Web to Mobile) is a service that allows publishers to display their existing web content to users on mobile phones and other handheld devices. This plugin detects when a user is on a mobile phone and automatically redirects them to Wetomo, which acts a proxy between the mobile phone and the Wordpress site and adapts the web site content to the mobile phone capabilities.

Have you installed any of the above plugins in your Wordpress blog? What is the total percentage of the visitors who are viewing your blog using a mobile device? Let me know your feedback.

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