B2B Marketing Blog - TopRank®

B2B Marketing views, news and interviews.

Contact Us

MENUMENU
  • Services
    • Influencer
      • Start Your B2B Influencer Pilot
    • Content
    • Search
  • Insights
    • Blog
    • News
    • Resources
  • Our Work
    • B2B Technology
    • IT Service Management
    • Project Management Software
    • Social Networks
    • Supply Chain
  • About Us
    • Meet the Team
    • Careers
  • Connect

Optimize your blog for the iPhone and iPod Touch in Five Minutes

Lee Odden
Lee Odden
Blogging Strategy

iPhoneYou can’t deny that Apple is re-defining the mobile web. The iPhone and iPod Touch are full fledged web browsers and there are lots of people using them. So, why don’t you take 5 minutes and optimize your WordPress blog for the iPhone and iPod Touch?

Step 1 – Install iWPhone. This plugin and theme combo automatically detects the iPhone or iPod Touch and serves up a specific theme optimized just for those screens. All you have to do is install it and activate it. When an an iPhone or iPod stops by, your site will be ready.

Step 2 – Install iPhone Mobile Admin. This plugin re-works the admin side of your blog specifically for the iPhone or iPod Touch. It makes it quite handy if you have one of these devices and want to login and post or manage your blog on the go. It should work with other mobile phones too if you don’t have an iPhone. There is also WPhone if iPhone Mobile Admin doesn’t fit your needs.

Step 3 – Create a Webclip icon. This is the icon that will show up if someone adds your blog (or website) to the home screen on their iPhone or iPod Touch. If you don’t have a webclip, it’ll just grab your favicon and scale it up and make it look pixley and ugly.

That’s it, your WordPress blog is now optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s cool again and you can brag that you are on the cutting edge of technology even without an iPhone. 😀

While you are at it, you might want to optimize your blog for all mobile phones too.

About Lee Odden

@LeeOdden is the CEO of TopRank Marketing and editor of TopRank's B2B Marketing Blog. Cited for his expertise by The Economist, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, he's the author of the book Optimize and presents internationally on B2B marketing topics including content, search, social media and influencer marketing. When not at conferences, consulting, or working with his talented team, he's likely running, traveling or cooking up something new.

Comments

  1. Charles says

    November 14, 2008 at 1:53 am

    This is a cool plugin and theme.
    Next step: Make it cleaner for podcast sites.
    – bigger MP3 download link.
    – hide the Flash player.

  2. Dave says

    April 1, 2009 at 7:32 am

    Is there anything like this for blogger blogs or only wordpress?

    • Thomas says

      April 2, 2009 at 3:32 pm

      @Dave Not that I’m aware. You could create a CSS file from scratch for mobile devices. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/pocket

Trackbacks

  1. Around the Net with knup - 2/9/2008 | knupNET says:
    February 9, 2008 at 11:35 pm

    […] Optimize your blog for iPhone or iTouch [bloggerdesign] […]

LET’S GET SOCIAL

RSS Feed Twitter Facebook LinkedIn 2022 B2B Influencer Marketing Research Report Elevate B2B Marketing Podcast

Learn about:

SEE TOPRANK MARKETING SPEAK

How to Accelerate B2B Marketing Results by Working With Influencers

SUBSCRIBE        

TOPRANK BLOGGING TEAM

TopRank Marketing Blogging Team

 

Optimize

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

SEO Blogs

MARKETING BLOG RECOGNITION

CMI

Copyright © 2023 · TopRank Marketing

Return to top of page

We use cookies to understand how you use our site and to improve your experience. This includes personalizing content and advertising. By continuing to use our site, you accept our use of cookies and revised Privacy Policy.