Plugin Directory

WordPress Mobile Pack

Author: James Pearce, dotMobi, and team

The dotMobi 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.

The pack has been tested on WordPress 2.5.1, 2.6.5, 2.7.1 and 2.8.1 to 2.8.6. It has been tested on WordPress MU 2.6 in the 'plugins', rather than 'mu_plugins', mode. PHP 5.x is also highly recommended, although the plugin will tolerate PHP4.x.

Features highlights:

  • mobile switcher, i.e. the plug-in automatically suggests desktop or mobile presentation, but lets users switch to the other and remembers. Read more about "switching" on mobiForge
  • base mobile theme, crafted by ribot, a top UK mobile design team, the WordPress Mobile Pack comes with a base theme and 3 color variations that you can choose. All mark-up is valid XHTML-MP 1 and the site scores 5 on mobiReady
  • device adaptation, the plug-in has basic recognition of mobile devices and is capable of rescaling images, splitting articles and posts in multiple pages, simplifying style and remove media. With the upcoming release of DeviceAtlas Personal, full adaptation will be implemented.
  • mobile admin panel, allows the blog managers to access the admin interface, specifically designed for mobile, with simplified access to the most common features such as editing a post or approving comments.
  • mobile ad widget, easily enable mobile ads with AdMob or mobile Adsense
  • barcode widget, add to your full site a barcode that devices with a suitable reader can use to quickly visit the front page of the mobile site, or deep link within it