Since I held off purchasing my Blackberry till the Storm was released, I never really paid attention to my Blog for smartphones. I did however modify my regular website to have a WAP area.
This morning I was thinking about changing my blog. I went to it on my Blackberry Storm and it really wasn’t a happy blog. It took way too long to load and when it was loaded it was very tiny. Remember that a lot of users pay for bandwidth and will never return to your Blog if the amount of images and advertising banners are going to cost them too much bandwidth. I was going to simplify everything so that it was more Smartphone friendly but before I went to all this trouble I decided to go visit Google and see what WordPress Plugins were available.
Sure enough, the first plugin I found worked without any modifications or trouble at all. Good job Imthiaz Rafic, the plugin is available at http://imthi.com/wp-pda. All you need to do is to upload it to the plugins directory of your Blog and activate it. It really is that simple. Once activated, the plugin detects your device and shows a simplified Blog. If your blog is a money generating blog, there are probably some plugins that will enable you to keep all the paid links even on a simplified blog.
I would recommend that you seriously consider this as an option simply because more and more people are going to be using Smartphones and it is a pain in the butt to have to zoom in and scroll around just to read a blog. It is also a pain in the wallet if you have to pay for bandwidth just to read a Blog post on a site that is filled with images.
| Article Tags :: advertising banners | bandwidth | blackberry | Blackberry Storm | blog | good job | google | iphone | Money | plugins directory | smartphones | wordpress | |
No comments yet.