going mobile with wordpress (a survey)

Shelley Keith (wcfay, session, @sk140, slides, all presentations)

Shelley evaluated the breadth of WordPress plugins, themes, and services related to mobile. Shelley decided she needed to provide a mobile app as well as a responsive html5 theme that played well on small screens. Went with ShoutEm; lets her redeploy content as a responsive html5 that can also be republished as a native app.

Plugins

• WPTouch
• WP Mobile Detector
• WordPress Mobile Pack
  • Essentially a theme switcher with mobile detection
  • Provides basic analytics
  • Configurable
• Wapple Architect Mobile
• WordPress Multi Site Mobile Edition
  • supports network (site-wide)
  • Theme: Carrington Mobile
  • provides a mobile/not-mobile link automatically (toggle)
  • cannot customize per-blog
• Weever Apps
  • front-face for a web service
• PluginBuddy Mobile

Mobile Apps (Services)

• ShoutEm
• Mobile by Conduit
• MobileRoadie
• BiznessApps
• Wapple (html5 web)
• Weever (html5 web)
• WPTouch Pro (html5 web)

Theme Frameworks with Responsive Design

• Genesis
• PageLines
• HeadWay
• Whiteboard
• Catalyst
• WooFramework
• Responsive (stand-alone theme)
• Business Lite (stand-alone theme)
• iFeature (stand-alone theme)