Now a days lots of mobile users browse the internet and search using Mobile phones or PDA. If your blog has tons of images and heavy scripts, then it will be a tough task to browse using GPRS connection with a mobile phone. Solution for this is to provide a mobile version of your blog.
I have few tips for creating a mobile version of your blog
Wordpress Plugin
- There is an excellent Wordpress Plugin which also works automatically detecting the browser by Alex King.
- You can download this plugin and use it. You need to make sure that you install the plugin in the right way as you need to upload the theme to the theme folder and the plugin to the plugin folder. Please make sure that you read the readme.txt file
- You can check this theme for iPhone
- Another excellent plugin for Mobile version of Wordpress blog is here. I am using this plugin. You can check it by visiting my blog on your pda. The credit goes to Imtiaz.
- Another plugin for auto detecting PDA and changing the theme for viewing
Google Reader
First you have to create a sub-domain for your mobile version like m.yourdomain.com and create an index.html file with like given below
<html>
<head>
<title>Kishore's Blog | Limits Undefined</title>
</head>
<frameset rows="0,*" framespacing="0" border="0" frameborder="0">
<frame scrolling="no" noresize>
<frame scrolling="auto" noresize src=
"http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://feedproxy.google.com/KishoreAsokan">
</frameset>
</html>
