Upwardly Mobile – Why Your Web Strategy Needs to Think Portable

For the last ten years I have heard someone, somewhere say ‘this is the year for mobile’. It’s become a standing joke in our industry. From SMS to WAP, it seems everything has been tried and failed. Well now it’s my turn and, at the risk of being laughed at, I am going to tell you ‘this is the year for mobile!’

PHP Classes Package Now Available

Building your mobile friendly website is getting easier each day. We’ve already released plugins and components for a number of different applications – CakePHP, Joomla and WordPress to name a few. But what happens if you’re not running one of these apps but still need a mobile friendly website? If you don’t have the time [...]

WordPress Mobile Plugin Version 1.2

Today marks another significant milestone in the evolution of the Wapple Architect mobile plugin for WordPress – version 1.2 has been released into the wild! There’s been some great feedback from version 1.1 as well as a whole load of suggestions and feature requests and I’ve tried to implement as many of them as I [...]

IE6 Must Die, Mobile Browsers Must Live

IE6 Must Die is a trending topic on Twitter right now. The world is demanding that IE6 support is dropped, effectively forcing the hand of anyone still using the browser and hopefully freeing the internet from the hell that is substandard browser support.

WordPress Mobile Plugin Install Guide and FAQ

As I needed to create a home page for my WordPress mobile plugin other than that at wordpress.org, I’ve created this post in order to fulfill both that need and provide a forum for people to comment and contribute. The text is taken straight from the readme file, so if you’ve arrived here rather than [...]

How WordPress Developers can Mobilize their Plugins

As I mentioned in my article regarding the release of my mobile WordPress plugin, the results of my plugin on a standard install of WordPress are awesome and blogs look amazing on mobile web (as you can see from the screenshot). But because of the open source nature of WordPress, there are a whole load [...]

WordPress Mobile Plugin Now Available

Following hot on the heels of my article about How I Mobilized WordPress, I’m pleased to report that version 1.0 of my mobile plugin is now available on wordpress.org! If you want to get it for yourself, head over to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wapple-architect/, have a read of the documentation and activate it on your own blog!

How I Mobilized WordPress – the Technical Howto for Devs, Coders, Web Geeks and Wizards

So you’ve got your WordPress site running, you’ve installed a load of plugins to do fancy things and there’s a large subscriber base following your every post. However, without realising it, you’re giving a poor user experience to anyone reading your blog on their mobile phone. Have a read of “Why Millions of WordPress Bloggers [...]

Why Millions of WordPress Bloggers Need to get Mobile Friendly

If you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years and have never heard of WordPress, it’s a free to use, open source publishing system. It’s one of the biggest and best around, with over 5,000,000 people publishing hosted blogs on wordpress.com and millions more using software they’ve downloaded from wordpress.org. I’ve done [...]

You Can Have Your Cake and Mobilize It

I mentioned in a previous post that I’d written an article on the cake bakery about how to mobilize an existing website or application by just downloading the code, signing up for a dev key and following the instructions. But whilst my plugin works perfectly, it’s missing a helper to actually build the WAPL for [...]