How to: Create an iPhone version of your blog

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As I wrote on WPHacks a while ago, an iPhone version of your site is increasingly becoming a necessity. Why? So many people have iPhones and iPod Touches these days it is important to make sure your site works with the Mobile Safari platform.

I’ll stop rambling.

Using the iWPhone Plugin, you can make an iPhone version of your blog. Trouble is, it doesn’t really look that great. Solution: the Nometech iNomeBlog theme: an improved version of the default theme that comes with the plugin. It isn’t particularly advanced, but it clearly displays your blog to iPhone/iPod Touch users.

To install the theme, download the file below and unzip it. Upload the iwphone.php file to /wp-content/plugins/ and activate it. Then upload the inomeblog file to /wp-content/themes/ (and don’t activate it) and you’re done!

Download or see the demo (if you’re on an iPhone)

Part of the NomeTheme series



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15 Comments

  • PeterButler
    on Apr 10, 2009
    at 2:37 pm

    I hadn't given much thought to making themes handle iphones specifically, since they handle normal websites so well. Can you give us some idea of the steps you took, and why?

  • Edmond
    on Apr 23, 2009
    at 12:49 pm

    Yeah thanks alot its much better than the original version I’m using it right now

  • Alex Denning
    on Apr 10, 2009
    at 7:21 pm

    Yeah, sure.

    Basically, I was fed up with having to zoom all over the place when browsing the web on my iPhone, so the solution seemed to be create a plugin that made an iPhone specific version of my blog. As for the theme, its a fusion between NomeBlog and the theme that comes with the iWPhone plugin.