With the increasing number of people that are searching the internet using their mobiles bloggers cannot overlook the importance of making their blogs available for these mobile users, this is beneficial because it also creates an additional revenue stream that’s if you also interested in monetizing your blog. There are two wordpress plugins you can use to render your blog for the mobile user.

  • MobilePress.
  • Dot Mobi Wordpress Mobile pack.

MobiPress renders the blog into a mobile format by detecting the users device it has a nice template where Google Adsense for mobile code can be added into the site this also allows the site to be small enough for the it to load fast enough.

MobilePress

MobilePress is a Wordpress plugin that renders Wordpress into a mobile format for Opera Mini, Windows CE Mobile, iPhone and other generic browsers. This plugin can be extended to create custom themes for certain devices, for example you can have a separate theme for an iPhone, default mobile browser or Opera mini giving the user an unlimited amount of customization options. MobilePress also features Mobile SEO which will allow the blog to be indexed by Google and Yahoo mobile search bots.

Tip:-When using this plugin always remember to copy all the changes you make to the default theme to the iphone theme folder to make sure you dont lose out on that revenue.

You can download a copy of MobilePress by searching for it in your wordpress “add new” link on your plugins tab or you can alternativily download it here.

Dot Mobi Wordpress Mobile pack

The Dot Mobi Wordpress Mobile Pack is another good toolkit that will help you mobilize your web blog. With Dot Mobi themes can be selcted based on the users device and themes can be styled to inculde certain default wordpress widgets into the blog. The interesting thing about the Dot Mobi plugin is the fact that it allows users to access an administration panel  where they can write new posts or administer certain functions of the site on their mobiles through the mobile admin panel.

You can download a copy of Dot Mobi by searching for it in your wordpress “add new” link on your plugins tab or you can alternativily download it here.

There are a few examples of sites that are using the following mobile blogging plugins they are listed below.

  1. http://www.voov.co.za a mobile software download directory using Mobipress.
  2. http://www.zimbuzz.com a online niche lifestyle magazine using Dot Mobi Wordpress Mobile Pack.
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