WordPress PDA & iPhone

WordPress PDA plugin enables the wordpress blog viewable for PDA and iPhone browsers. It is really simple plugin which detects the browser agent and loads a simple theme on fly. The plugin comes with a theme folder which acts like normal theme with all the functionality of wordpress theme.

The plugin doesn’t have any advanced option to control. If you want to customize you can do it with the theme files.

Installation of this plugin is simple and straight forward. Just extract the files in you wordpress plugins folder. And in the admin activate the plugin

Once you activate the plugin you will not be seeing any magic in your admin menus or any trace of this plugin :-). To see this plugin in action you have browse your site using a pda. I have installed the plugin in my blog and this is how it looks from a pda browser.

worpress pda plugin preview

To enable your blog for pda users just download and activate 😉

Download PDA plugin for wordpress 2.x

Please note iPhone theme is still in beta testing stage. I will be working on more updates on the same soon. Please read the FAQ if you want to disable iPhone theme integration.

Thanks to Martin Loyer for adding theme language support and French Translation.

Thanks to Zombix for providing a working demo of the pda plugin

445 comments

  1. I was also thinking about how cool if the next version of iPhone would have a front-facing camera for video chatting for phone-to-phone or iPhone-to-iChat on a computer…seeing how we’re very close to truly implementing 3G here in the States.

  2. Does your plugin work with FLUID (variable width) themes for WP? I have the plugin installed on all of my sites but those with a fluid theme do not display properly on the iphone view at http://viewlike.us – I don’t have an iphone to check it myself. In the mean time, I have (regrettably) switch back to a fixed width so iphone users can view the site.

  3. Hi – have you seen my mobile plugin for wordpress?

    It’s called the Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin – has support for every device, from a WML phone to a brand new iPhone, has dynamic image resizing and has options galore so you can really customize your mobile theme.

    The URL is http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wapple-architect/ and it’d be great if you wanted to take a look at it! If you have any feedback please get in touch!

  4. Does this plugin work with all version of wordpress? As I understand the iPhone version, once you upgrade it, you will need to upgrade your wordpress to the latest version too…

  5. This seems like a great plugin. Though I am yet to try it, I am just wondering if it would also allow one to post articles on the wordpress blog on a PDA? It will really eliminate the hassle of opening up “bulky” laptops while on the move!

  6. well i was thinking more than this i was looking for a wml script like for wordpress which can show only for mobiles i mean not for web

  7. This seems like a great plugin. Though I am yet to try it, I am just wondering if it would also allow one to post articles on the wordpress blog on a PDA? It will really eliminate the hassle of opening up “bulky” laptops while on the move!

  8. Thanks for the great plug-in! It works perfectly on my Blackberry Curve, and almost perfectly on the iPhone (great beta). I’ve been able to slightly tweak the themes with no problem too. Awesome how it works for iPhone and ‘regular’ phones.

  9. Is there any chance this could be made available on normal 3G phones in the future or is this not possible? It would be really cool if it could be use on 3G phones

  10. Also, being interested in web development makes aware of the issue too. Once I deleted the line of code enabling the “Home” button (since that has a bug wherein a second header gets placed underneath the first when clicked) the plugin became absolutely flawless for me and though I never think of it as being there day-to-day, I do like to know that my blog, though still not my main website, is at least properly mobile browser compatible.

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