Mobile-Friendly Blogging with WordPress

Is there a link to this plugin to try it? Thanks.

The plugin sounds great. But I don't see the download link. Where can we download it from?
Thanks,

Dennis

My blog - It's all about the mobile web.
wapreview.mobi
wapreview.com/blog

My blog - It's all about the mobile web. wapreview.mobi, wapreview.com/blog.

I've added the link above. All feedback appreciated.

Ruadhan

Ruadhan O'Donoghue
dotMobi

Most common problems with this plugin are due to file permissions. For instance when you untar the archive the correct file permissions may not be preserved. The main things you should check for are:

• [worpress_root]/wp-content/plugins/wp-mobile-wurfl/data/ directory should be writeable
• [worpress_root]/wp-content/plugins/wp-mobile-wurfl/data/wurfl.log file should be writeable

Ruadhan

Ruadhan O'Donoghue
dotMobi

posted wrong section

I'm using it at:

Developing.mobi

Thanks for all your help Ruadhan.

When I try to update the XML file, I receive hundreds of lines of errors.

Mostly, they are permission denied errors from this plugin. I've changed the permissions so that the plugin could write and execute as necessary - however, the errors still persist.

Ideas?

Will this plugin be maintained. Are there new updates? Is this also compatible with 2.1.?

Regards
Rxbbx

The download link gives a 404 :(

I was hoping to get my personal blog working properly, as the original WP plugin doesn't work that well

Well i have read a few questions about this plugin and still not able to find a answer to this, if you use this plugin correctly google and yahoo index only the the mobile version of the blog and if you try to incude the disallow in the robots.txt the search engines do not index the blog all together.

What is the solution to this?

Thanks.

I am using Firefox and the above download link takes me to the front page of the site. When I try to save it, it saves the front page. Whats with that?

Ping,

Thanks for letting us know. This is working now. We had left out the .gz version of the file somehow in the migration to the new server.

Ronan

Pleasure, glad I could have helped in some small way.

I installed it now and its working beautifully. First time I am using Wordpress and it was so easy to install and get working. Checked it out now on my Series 40 Nokia phone excellent. My link is below. Thanks for this guys.

http://www.outdooradventureclub.co.za/blog

Hi Ruadhan

Unfortunately your implementation will return mobile content to Googlebot (and I assume othe SE bots) which means that your plugin is likely to kill search engine rankings.

And if you are stupid like me and forget to copy the noted files to the root you are going to return a 302 then a 404 to Googlebot. End result your site is inaccessible to Google and your rankings will be killed. Happened to me. Devastated my rankings.

Even had I correctly copied the files across the 302'd content would still likely have a very negative impact on my rankings. I think you're going to have to revisit how you determine who to server mobile content to.

Best rgds
Richard

Hi Richard,

Thanks for your comments. This has been mentioned previously, but I have not had a chance to address it. If it is simply a matter of changing the mobile switching algorithm then I will try to update it asap.

Thanks
Ruadhan

Ruadhan O'Donoghue
dotMobi

Ruadhan

In your implementation are you parsing the wurfl_patch.xml file? I'll dig through the code if I have time, but I tried including the latest web_browser_patch (renamed to wurfl_patch.xml) but the plugin still served up mobile content to the bots.

I know this might sound drastic, but until you can address this I think in might be better to advise people not to use the plugin if they have a public site which relies on search traffic. In particular the paging menchanism on the mobile version is going to lead to indexing issues.

Best rgds
Richard

Hi Richard,

Yes this is a good point - when the WURFL is updated, I am not re-parsing the patch file (as far as I remember). I will add a note regarding your SEO concerns on this. In the meantime, there are a number of other wordpress mobile plugins that I am aware of that you might like to try, including Andy Moore's and Alex King's. Neither relies on WURFL, and Andy Moore claims his is dotMobi compliant.

I will address the SEO problems you've mentioned with this plugin as soon as I get a chance.

Ruadhan

Ruadhan O'Donoghue
dotMobi

Ruadhan

Like Richard I've found that the plugin is killing my search engine rankings :(

Both Yahoo and Google have reindexed my site with wp-mobile.php

I installed Andy's plugin as a temporary measure and have symlinked wp-mobile.php to index.php, so the bots should see the full version and his UserAgent matching should kick in where applicable. It's a filthy dirty hack, but I don't know what else to do for the moment...
I'll probably do some .htaccess rewriting stuff once I have the energy

Michele

At Mowser we've made an alternate version of a mobilizer plugin that sends mobile users through Mowser:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mowser-wordpress-mobile/

We keep the install footprint very small by just detecting mobile users, will swap in mobile advertising for you, allow you to put the mobile version at your own domain if you like (ie m.example.com or example.mobi) by using some DNS settings, take care of potential SEO issues by disallowing spiders to the mowser.com version of the content, and allow you to provide your own stylesheet for the mobile version if you want. We also mobilize all outbound links.

There's more info about Mowser itself at the publisher wiki: http://pub.mowser.com/wiki/

- Mike

Did you ever sort the SEO issues out for this?

We have a site we are looking at WordPress for, but can't go if it will kill our Google presense.

Bug, guys. It gets tricked by IE8 into giving the mobile version.

Way too risky if its a matter of SEO.

There are many plugins that you can now use for wap version of sites, however none of them works with hyper cache. In my Nokia blog
I am facing this issue severely and will be really thankful if any of you can help me find a plugin or the hack which will work when Wordpress Hyper Cache, or Super Cache is active. Without them my hosting owner will surely kick me out. :(

Really need this solution.

Nokia S60 Symbian Themes Developer

I used this plugin on a unix server and everything was really ok.
Then I tried to install it on a windows 2003 server (migrated exactly the same wordpress installation) and the following problem has occured:

No posts are being displayed.

I see the categories, the navigation - everything in the mobile look&feel, but no posts. Just the titles of the posts, but when you click them, no posts.

Why does this happen? Thanks in advance for your respond.

Wordpress and Windows server really does not go together well. You should switch to Linux and apache if you are planning to implement wordpress as the primary platform.

Also, in Windows Server you will have to update the permalinks manually when you install wp even if your permalinks are set to default "????"

What you are seeing is probably a permalink issue and not a plugin issue.

Cheers.

Nokia S60 Symbian Themes Developer

Hello, There are many plugins that you can now use for wap version of sites, however none of them works with hyper cache. In my Nokia blog
I am facing this issue severely and will be really thankful if any of you can help me find a plugin or the hack which will work when Wordpress Hyper Cache, or Super Cache is active.

Ruadhan, I already have a mobi domain name sitting and waiting to be used. If I install the wordpress mobile plug in with my blog, does the the mobile site site in a different directory where I can point my mobi domain? (BTY, in your original post, your urls had an extra character which rendered them a dead like. I fixed them in this quote)