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October 20, 2009

WordPress Adds Themes Optimized for Mobile

According to WordPress, there are more than 60 million page views that come from mobile phones per month for WordPress.com blogs. With that kind of traffic, how your site renders on mobile devices could be a big boon to increasing engagement.

That’s why we’re excited to learn that WordPress (
) has just launched two new mobile themes for WordPress.com blogs that will be automatically displayed when a compatible mobile phone attempts to access your site.

For smartphones with top notch mobile browsers, like the iPhone or Android (
) devices, the theme will be a tweaked version of WPtouch, while other devices will sport a variation of the WordPress Mobile Edition.

From the sound of it, WPtouch is pretty spiffy and even includes custom header image scaling. WordPress also shares that, “visitors greeted by WPtouch will get easy access to posts, pages, and archives. They’ll get fancy AJAX commenting and post loading.” As for phones running less sophisticated browsers, the mobile theme will help your site load faster and display as much relevant information about your blog as possible.

Given that the new mobile themes are default, you don’t have to do anything to see the new changes made to your WordPress.com blog. However, if you’d like to disable the mobile themes, you can do so from your Dashboard under Appearance -> Extras.

While we think the news is great for hosted WordPress blog owners, we’re slightly disappointed that the mobile themes aren’t available for those of us who have self-hosted WordPress blogs.

via mashable.com

I've been using the WPTouch plugin on some of my blogs. It seems to work quite well. I have noticed a few other plugins will interfere from time to time, so I have to tweak it a bit when I try something new.

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June 30, 2009

Posterous - Blogs, Views and Blues 38

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Blogs AND Views

Wish you could simply email anything you wanted to an address and have it post correctly in your own blog? Posterous claims to be the "dead simple way to post everything online using email." They say, "You can attach any kind of file and we'll always do the right thing." Some of the key features include:

Post a series of photos in one message and it becomes an image gallery
Post a video file and it becomes embedded into a player and a download link right in your post
Post an audio file and it gets its own player and a download link
An RSS feed that can also be used to push your files out via a podcast or subscription feed
Cross-posting or auto-posting to many other social sites, including Twitter, Facebook, Plurk, Flickr, Vimeo, YouTube, and more.
Import existing blogs to the Posterous account

Another key feature that Rich likes: You can email your file to a service name, such as Twitter with the posterous address and it will end up on Twitter, as well... or any other of the recognized sites that you set up for posting. So, twitter at yourname.posterous.com will send it to Twitter, as well as post it to the Posterous site. If you want it to go to Twitter AND Facebook, send it to twitter+facebook at yourname.posterous.com. It will send to both.

If you like other's Posterous sites, you can subscribe to them. Then subscribe to your "My Subscriptions" feed and it will go directly to your reader or even email address with the contents of each of your favorite publishers.

There are many other features, visit Posterous.com to find out about the service.

Blues

Big James and the Chicago Playboys
"A Little Attention" (mp3)
from "Right Here Right Now"
(Blind Pig Records)

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The theme music for Blogs, Views, and Blues was created by Chainsaw Dupont. The tune is called "Funky Foot". Find his music at ChainsawDupont.com and at the Podsafe Music Network.

Original guitar interludes are by Rich Palmer.

Blogs, Views, and Blues is also sponsored by GoDaddy.com. Visit today and use coupon codes blu16 or pod16 to receive up to 10% off your web hosting and/or domain name needs.

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June 28, 2009