WordPress Mobile Plugin
The WordPress Mobile Plugin has grown up and has a new home!
Introducing wordpressmobile.mobi
THIS PAGE HAS SERVED US WELL BUT THE PLUGIN IS NOW ONLY AVAILABLE FROM THE NEW SITE
Make your WordPress site accessible on a mobile phone with this plugin. Now your posts, pages, archives and comments can be viewed on a mobile device. Standards are supported, posts and comments can be submitted by phone and your WordPress mobile site is easily moneitized by AdMob.
Version 1.2 just released!
Download WordPress Mobile Plugin here
- Easy to install, one file. WURFL not required
- Automatic mobile phone & PDA detection
- Post & upload from your mobile
- Supports display and posting of comments
- Supports AdMob mobile advertising
- SEO friendly titles and H1 tags
- Highly configurable & easy to customise
- Adheres to W3C & mTLD dotMobi standards
- Released by dotMobi Certified Developer
How to install or upgrade from v1.0 / v1.1
Installing or upgrading this plugin is easy. If you’re upgrading from 1.0 or 1.1 deactivate the plugin before you follow these steps. Need help?
- Backup your WordPress files and database - not required but good practice
- Download the plugin and extract the PHP file from the zip
- Upload wordpress-mobile.php to your wp-content/plugins folder
- Activate the plugin. Goto Plugins > Click Activate
- Customise your site. Goto Options > WordPress Mobile
- Visit your site using your phone’s browser or an emulator
Automatic mobile phone & PDA detection
This plugin will automatically detect most modern mobile phones & PDAs (including PlayStation Portable) then show them a mobile friendly version of your site. More info on the mthod used: Detecting mobile phones with PHP.
Post & upload from mobile
The most exciting development in version 1.1 is posting and uploading files from your mobile phone. To enable posting from a phone just set your password on the control panel. Once the password is set the link you need to post will appear on your site. Uploads feel like they take forever on GPRS but it’s great being able to blog from almost anywhere. You need a modern phone that supports file uploads to post images and files to your site but regular text based posts should work on a wide range of devices.
Supports showing and leaving of comments
The main development in version 1.2 is the options to show or disable comments on the mobile version of your WordPress site. Comments, if enabled, will automatically be paginated and there is an option to allow or disable visitors from being able to comment on your site from their mobile phone.
AdMob - Mobile Internet Advertising
AdMob is the world’s leading mobile advertising company. They pay mobile site publishers per click and offer a simple way to monetise your mobile traffic. With this plugin earning money from AdMob is even simpler! Just enter your publisher ID in the options panel and you’re done.
Register for AdMob now to generate a passive revenue stream from your new mobile site.
SEO friendly titles and H1 tags
The plugin tries to use distinct titles and page headlines throughout to ensure the best ‘on deck’ SEO possible.
It’s a good idea to submit a mobile site map to Google so it knows to show mobile results to mobile browsers and web results to web browsers. This should iron out indexing issues that multi-rendering markup can cause such as mobile results turning up in web searches. This mobile plugin is more SEO friendly than others.
Highly configurable & easy to customise
These options let you customise your mobile site’s template to make it unique. You can:
- Change Index page welcome comment
- Change Archive link anchor text
- Change Pages link anchor text
- Set headline to show if blog updated today
- Select Internal or External Style Sheets
- Select permalinks or redirects
- Enable, disable or view traffic monitoring
- Set a password to post from your mobile
- Pick a default category to post to
- Choose how wide to resize image uploads
- Earn revenue from AdMob
- Set a comment to go next to the ads
- Select where to positions the ads
- Customise Ad links page anchor text
- Share a little love with the author
This image shows which admin panel options tie up with which elements on the page, have a play and find the best settings for you.
Adheres to W3C & mTLD dotMobi standards
The markup generated by this plugin is XHTML 1.1 which is where XHTML MP (Mobile Profile) is heading. Your options page has links to validators and tools. The output generated by the plugin should validate at:
- W3C XHTML Validator
- W3C Mobile Validator
- dotMobi Mobile Ready test
- Cynthia Says Section 508 plus WCAG 1 & 2
Internal or External Style Sheets
There’s mixed feelings over how to call style sheets on the mobile web. The dotMobi Mobile Ready test scores higher with external stylesheets though many handsets don’t support the caching of them. It could be considered best practice to include the style in the head of the document though the choice here is yours.
To edit the CSS the plugin uses goto Plugins > Plugin Editor > WordPress Mobile and scroll to the bottom. The value $mobile_style contains the stylesheet that is used on your mobile site.
The image below shows how the style elements and accesskeys tie in with the page. Note how the classes on the footer switch depending on settings.
Thematic Consistency / One Web / Permalinks
If ‘One Web‘ is enabled it will show the mobile version of your site on the URL the device is browsing. This will preserve your permalink structure. Mobile geeks might call this ‘Thematic Consistency‘.
If ‘One Web‘ is disabled it will redirect the visitor to the same URL but will pass a value called mobi to the URL so the plugin knows to show the mobile version.
HINT: The mobile version of your posts can be viewed by adding ?mobi to the URL.
Accesskeys based navigation
Accesskeys from 0 to 9 are supported through the framework of the plugin. The accesskey to navigate to a link is highlighted like [0] followed by the anchor text. Accesskeys are essential in mobile navigation and make sites much more user friendly.
Emulators
There are a few mobile phone emulators available so you can see how your site will perform on a number of devices. The options page for the plugin will show you a link to the mTLD emulator. While emulators are handy nothing compares to testing on real handsets.
Tracking
The optional mobile click tracking is powered by our WAP Hit Counter service.
If you have tracking enabled you’ll be able to view a report in realtime of all the devices and pages being viewed.
Share a little love
You know this is a cool plugin, you’re getting it for free and if ads are enabled it’ll make you money. If you’re feeling generous you can give me upto 10% of your ad views, or as little as the minimum of 1%. Please also spread a little link love and opt to link to my sites on your plugin!
Troubleshooting & Help
Problems viewing your mobile site on your PC? You can normally add &mobi or ?mobi to the URL to see the mobile version of your site. If you can’t view your mobile site on a browser make sure you’ve got the XHTML Mobile Profile Extension and the other helpful mobile developer extension for FireFox list at dev.mobi.
Image uploads not resizing? If you’re trying to upload a large image from your phone and it’s not resizing check you’ve got a value in ‘Resize jpg uploads wider than’ on your options. Best practices suggest limiting the width of images to 120 unless you know the device supports wider images. Your webserver needs to support GD library to resize images. The phpinfo() function will tell you if it’s enabled. Uploads are saved in the directory you set under Options > Miscellaneous if your files are not uploading check this folder is writable by the server and that file uploads are not disabled or limited by your server config.
Mobile site slow? It could be your network or carrier, sadly slow or broken connections are all too common, battery power and range are issues too.. If your mobile site is slow on a PC try disabling the tracking, this will speed it up by cutting out a remote call to log your click.
Any other bugs or questions? Comments are welcome, please provide feedback and offer suggestions for future releases.
March 24th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Hi Andy. A question - how are you getting your site using the regular url to pass at validator.w3.org/mobile? Are you somehow sending andymoore.info/?mobi to it? Thanks
March 24th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Hi Tom,
The validator meets at least one of the criteria we look for when the plugin checks if the device is a mobile one or not.
I’ve got ‘One web’ enabled on my install of the plugin, this means it will see the validator and render the page to it on the URL it calls, this is the essence of thematic consistency, keeping the same, or similar URL structure over the site regardless of the device viewing it.
If one web was disabled it would redirect the request to ?mobi
Cheers
March 24th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Hi Andy - thanks. Just to be sure I understand - So, are you saying that the plugin recognizes that the validator is looking for the mobile version of the site (because the non mobile version would never pass that test I believe) and then feeds it to it but doesn’t redirect to a different url - it just keeps the url the same but serves the mobile version in the browsers versions place?
Thanks.
March 24th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Ok, I think I got you now. The main thing I wanted to know was how the plugin was identifying the http://validator.w3.org/mobile/ validator as a mobile device or query that should be served a mobile page. I guess you have added something to your plugin specific for that so it gets served the mobile version.
March 24th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Well the validator identifies itself as a phone so gets treated as one, you’re right about it keeping the same URL and serving different version.
March 24th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Ok got ya - thanks Andy!
March 24th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
No problem, enjoy the plugin, hope it helps!
March 24th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Andy - just a few last bunch of questions:
The mobile pages the plugin creates includes links to a ringtone site and a link back to this blog. Must we keep those links there? Also, is it possible to change the colors of the template? If we select external style sheet - does it actually create an external style sheet? Cause I don’t see one in the folder.
Does the plugin include support for blog pages and posting?
Mobile site map aside, will the plugin not direct Google’s and Yahoo’s spider to the mobile version?
thanks
March 25th, 2007 at 2:25 am
Hi again,
The link to the plugin can go, I guess it’s not related to most people’s sites so I understand wanting to remove it. Naturally I’d like to see the ringtone link retained but you host the file so the control is in your hands.
As for changing the colours on the style sheet I like the thought of it, it’s a possible option for a later release but I’d like to see what styles others can come up with for this plugin.
If you suggest a colour scheme or two I might make them optional from with the admin panel.
Yes, it is a real external style sheet and no there is not a file for this. The plugin calls ?mobi&style=.css
The plugin runs before the page is outputted so can detect that it needs to only display the style sheet. Initial monitoring of the first version of this told me people downloaded the plugin but forgot the style sheet.
Google for inurl:wp-mobile.php and see how few sites of the original Alex King have been styled. I wanted to make it easier for the publisher to go mobile and look prettier while doing it.
As for pages, there’s a little bit written in 1.0 but it doesn’t go all the way. There will be support for it later. Other ideas floating around are categories, pagination and user comments.
With regards to posting, I’ve been working on that tonight, the next release will include a create new post with upload file option.
Supported file types will be:
avi 3gp amr awb wav mid mmf sis cab mp3 gif jpeg jpg jar aac mp4
As for the engines…. A few bot related user agents that have been sniffing around, these are from the last quarter of a million requests to mobile sites we’re tracking:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +
http://www.google.com/bot.html)
WURFL claim a Danger Hiptop
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp;
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)
WURFL claim a Danger Hiptop
Nokia6682/2.0 (3.01.1) SymbianOS/8.0 Series60/2.6
Profile/MIDP-2.0 configuration/CLDC-1.1 UP.Link/6.3.0.0.0
(compatible;YahooSeeker/M1A1-R2D2;
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/crawling/crawling-01.html)
Nokia6820/2.0 (4.83) Profile/MIDP-1.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.0
(compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +
http://www.google.com/bot.html)
DoCoMo/1.0/N505i/c20/TB/W20H10
(compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +
http://www.google.com/bot.html)
J-PHONE/2.0/J-SH03 (compatible; Y!J-SRD/1.0;
http://help.yahoo.co.jp/help/jp/search/indexing/indexing-27.html)
Mediapartners-Google/2.1
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! DE Slurp;
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google Desktop)
The last few seem more common towards the normal web but the first ones are most definitely crawling as mobile devices so will be treated as such.
To get to grips with how this plugin handles mobile browser detection take a look at the code here:
http://www.andymoore.info/php-to-detect-mobile-phones/
You’ll see it runs three tests, if you needed to be as certain as possible it’s a mobile before redirecting or rendering you can always change $mobile_browser>0 to $mobile_browser==’3′ to only initiate the thematic function if all three tests are passed.
March 25th, 2007 at 2:58 am
Wow that’s great thanks Andy.
I am a little confused with regards to the googlebot and slurp and wurfl, - does this mean that wurfl is reading those bots due to wurfl settings/definitions like they are danger hiptop devices/sidekicks or are those bots putting out that they are sidekicks/mobile devices - mobile spiders?
In other words - if wurfl is treating G and Y like mobile spiders and serving mobile content to them, how could you stop this from happening (not using a mobile sitemap)?
March 25th, 2007 at 2:33 am
Not sure on that one, getting late here now so judgment is further clouded than usual. I suspect a load of header tracking and probing would explain more.
Can’t you set ua and headers in the YoSpace emulator? Would enable more authentic bot emulation to know how it really handles. The mobile ready test lets you set extra headers. ready.mobi
March 25th, 2007 at 6:08 am
Hi Andy.
My visitors told me, that users with opera browser get the mobile version instead the “normal”. What can i do, to fix this?
March 27th, 2007 at 4:05 am
Apparently it is not working for WM5 device like Treo 700wx for this plugin. It doesnt redirect my browser to mobile. Email me if it should work on Treo 700wx using Windows Mobile 5.
March 27th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Hi LegoLass,
Regarding Opera, I have made a little change to the code to get it to render the full version for Opera.
My thinking behind this is that the real desktop Opera will be fine with it and Opera Mini on mobiles will render it for the device.
First off I remove ‘oper’, from the array of shortened devices, then I made it read:
if((($mobile_browser>0) or (isset($_GET[’mobi’])))
and ($mobile_ua!=’oper’)){
This will check mobile_browser has a value, or mobi has a value and ensure it’s NOT Opera before it calls further functions.
This will be written into 1.1 which will be out soon.
Jed: Treo is now added to the array of short UAs. Again, will be written into 1.1.
March 29th, 2007 at 1:39 am
This is a sweet plugin - nice job.
March 29th, 2007 at 1:41 am
Thanks for the great plugin.
I have a question about admob however, it is not showing up for me, I have signed up and approve ads already.
Can you help me?
March 29th, 2007 at 8:04 am
Thanks Jeff, pleased you like!
Chance77: First thing to check would be the plugin contol panel, make sure that your AdMob publisher ID is set right, if that field is empty your site doesn’t display any mobile advertising.
You can double check your publisher ID is right by logging into AdMob, going to ‘My Sites’ and clicking ‘Site install code’ from there you’ll be able to see in the example scripts a URL being called with a long value called ’s’ - this is your ID and will be an alpha-numeric string.
If you have a brand new account it might be that you have to wait a short while for the team there check you out and approve your site into their network. I’m not sure but you can find out by checking out forum.admob.com or by emailing support@admob.com - the only other thing I can think of that would cause it to fail would be if file_get_contents doesn’t work on your hosting environment.
If your version of PHP is less than 4 or your host has file_get_contents disabled the ads wont show, nor will it submit your traffic stats to the realtime monitor. You can check by enabling the traffic monitor, then check your site on a phone or emulator then watch the results. No results, no file_get_contents. Hope you get it sorted.
Version 1.1 is now live on this site but not available for download yet.The version I’m running does posts, archives and pages. It also allows you to post a blog entry from your mobile phone.
You can also upload file from your phone to your blog if your handset and carrier support this.
Live release soon.
March 30th, 2007 at 1:47 am
Will it work with Wordpress MU platform? You mentioned that u ll add Treo 700wx using Microsoft IE in your code but still not being able to access your live site. I entered http://www.andymoore.info and should it redirect to mobile site?
March 30th, 2007 at 2:14 am
Hi Jed,
Thanks for the bug report. Try again please, just loaded a new version with support for palm devices I hope. Treos seem to be pretending to be Windows 98 in the user agent.
If the mod doesn’t work can you ping your phone over to euro-text.co.uk/cellinfo.php for me, that will send me an email with environment variables about your phone so I can get this sorted out.
As for multi user, I like the idea of it but I’ve not manage a MU install yet so I’m not sure yet what’s involved.
Later version maybe.
March 30th, 2007 at 3:23 am
User agent: Mozilla/4.0 (Compatible msie 4.01; Windows CE; PPC)
Accept-encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept: */*
Accept-language: en-us
that’s what I got from euro text page for the variables. I already have wordpress mu installed. I couldn’t really tested it bec I have ppc 6700 and treo 700wx under same OS
hope u get it fixed then can see if wpmu worked with ur plugin.
March 30th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Chance77: This is Josh from AdMob. If you’re still having trouble getting ads to show up, please drop us a line at support@admob.com so that we can help you get set up.
April 4th, 2007 at 12:54 am
Hi Andy.
Is there an easy way, hacking the plugin, from preventing the static pages to be displayed?
April 4th, 2007 at 1:00 am
Quote: Domiziano Galia April 4, 2007 12:54 am
It’s even easier than hacking the plugin, just go to the options panel for the plugin and ensure the ‘Pages link anchor text:’ is empty.
If you’re not getting that option in your admin panel please download the plugin again, I just uploaded Version 1.1 a few seconds ago.
I’ve tried to make it as highly configurable as possible.
April 4th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Hi andy.
Is it possible for future releaeses, to include user comments?
By the way: whats new in version 1.1? I`ve modified the 1.0 version for my whishes and dont want to do that again for some changes i dont need.
Greetings, Legolas
April 4th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Quote: Legolas April 4, 2007 5:00 pm
Hi Legolas,
1.1 supports:
showing pages
posting and uploading images and files from a mobile
more options to customise
There’s loads of little mods to it!
I’ve been thinking about user comments, the problem with them would be the pagination through a post with hundreds of comments. The idea behind being mobile is that it’s micro and 200 comments would almost murder a phone if they loaded on one deck. I’d also like to make it paginate through long posts but it’s going to be a challenge to work out where to split the pages to make them human readable between pagination.
I’ll make version 1.2 have options to show comments and permit or disable posting of comments from a mobile.
I’ve spent too much time on this plugin recently, I need to take a little break to do some real work and come back to it in a week or so when I’ve refreshed myself for it!
April 4th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
This seems like excelent plugin, will try it definitely. One question - the original plugin got problems with Cache - when you put it on the web with caching enabled, then the visitors see the cached version of the page - so it may be mobile for normal users (if the last one before cache update was mobile user) or vice-versa. I think you add some url magic which may help, but have someone tested it? I got too many readers to test it on live web.
April 4th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Quote: Tomáš Kapler April 4, 2007 5:40 pm
This plugin executes in the template_redirect section of the WordPress headers, you can set the priority by changing:
add_action(’template_redirect’, ‘mobile_plugin_auto_detect’);
to
add_action(’template_redirect’, ‘mobile_plugin_auto_detect’,'1′);
The extra value of ‘1′ sets the action priority, there’s more on that on the WordPress Plugin API actions and hooks section.
This should ensure the plugin executes before any others bypassing the existing cache system and always serving fresh mobile pages.
It should be easy enough to setup a cache on mobile versions, guide to simple caching
April 4th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Again, thank you for this plugin. I tried it today in some blogs and works great. I see a lot of work in this code, full of comments.
The only error I got, at this moment, it’s trying to publish. It says “incorrect secret” but the site where it goes is your own blog…
Maybe it tryes to publish in your blog!
April 4th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
I found the error. Line 1001 of the plugin. It goes to your blog. Changing to my url works perfectly.
April 4th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Quote: Pablo Gavilán April 4, 2007 6:16 pm
Thanks for the feedback!!
Sorry about that, you’re right it’s posting to me! You can fix that by changing:
action=’http://www.andymoore.info/?mobi&view=write’
to
action=’$home/?mobi&view=write’
I just uploaded a fresh version without this bug, thanks for reporting it!
April 8th, 2007 at 7:36 am
Great plugin man currently active on my site I appreciate your effort!
Thank very much!!!
April 20th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Andy,
I have the plugin installed, went to the settings area and set a password for mobile bloging. When I load the Wap PAGE of my blog it looks great, the problem I’m having is when, from my phone (blackberry perl), I select the Create Post link, it just reloads the blog page. Any help would be great…. Thanks,
TheCrustyChicken.
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Version 1.2 is now live!
Includes optional comments, paginated with 5 comments a page plus mobile visitors to your site can, if you allow them, add a comment through their phone.
Download here
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:37 pm
It still not working on TREO 700 wx device. I have PPC 6700 which it works fine. Both of them are running on the Windows Mobile 5. I guess that Palm is trying to make it a bit different from PPC 6700!
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Add treo as a pipe seperated value where it first checks for a phone. That may sort it. (Posted by mobile)
Edit - just added treo to the first and third checks and re-uploaded.
April 24th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Hi there Andy
Your plugin is posting text fine to my blog but when I try and upload images I get a problem.
I’ve made sure my wp-content/uploads/ folder is writable but images still time out with an error. Is there something obvious I’m not doing.
I’ve got the images set to resize to 120 pixels as you suggested too.
April 24th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Hi Ingrid, This could be a handset issue, what are you using? Have you tried it on more than one phone? Can you upload an image through your regular browser?
April 25th, 2007 at 4:29 am
Hi Andy,
Amazing plugin! FYI, this appears to be working fine on my K2 enabled Wordpress site using wordpress 2.1.3. I’ll keep you updated.
Does anyone know of any mobile only directories that we can now submit to because we have Andy’s plugin enabled? Thanks.
April 25th, 2007 at 9:53 am
On Opera Mini, the mobile version doesn’t work. Any idea why? How do I add ‘Opera Mini’ into the array? All the browsers seem to be just 4 letters in size.
April 25th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Wordpress Mobile Plugin…
Andy Moore, a dotMobi Certified Mobile Web Developer created a great plugin for Wordpress to make the site dotMobi compatible.
With the help of this plugin this site got 5 points (out of 5) at the dotMobi-Ready test.
This plugin is really great work!
…
April 25th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Hi Andy,
What about links that are referenced in my blog - are the target sites somehow modified?
Also, does the plugin actually adapt content based on the specific mobile device used by the end user - image resize/conversion, page splitting based on specific device memory, etc. - similar to what Google does?
April 25th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Quote: J. Pisano April 25, 2007 4:29 am
Thanks for the comments, I might make 1.3 do something with links so you can host your own mobile links pages. If anyone using this wants to drop me an email with a URL I’d be happy to put a link out to their mobi site.
Quote: TheCrustyChicken April 20, 2007 6:35 pm
What happens when you try it from a regular browser? The perl should be able to handle posting the form data.
Quote: Abhishek April 25, 2007 9:53 am
There’s discussion early in the comments about this, I’d just add it to the pipe seperated values in the mobile check section and it should be okay. Doesn’t Opera Mini do it’s own content rendering? The thought was an adapation engine doesn’t need to be shown adapted content.
Quote: Oren Friedman April 25, 2007 4:15 pm
The rendering of remote sites is beyond the scope of this plugin, as for device specific adaptation no it doesn’t do anything flash. We’d need the WURFL to get handset specifics and WALL to parse the output but this plugin is intended to work without the WURFL in as simple a way as possible to get people publishing to the mobile web.
April 27th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
I’m trying to run this plug in on Interfaith.mobi..
I am having issues with the admob ads not showing up..
Am I using the right Admob Publisher ID? (I am using the number in the code under my old worldradio.mobi site’s admob code a14610c39cbe342 etc.)
Otherwise, I don’t know why my admob ads aren’t showing up on Interfaith.mobi after filling out the Options page for mobile wordpress plugin
Any one else having this issue?
Also, thanks very much! This is awesome and a great new, and timely, offering for the world!
April 27th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
WorldRadio.mobi:
This is Josh from AdMob Support. I can confirm that the publisher id for worldradio.mobi is in fact a14610c39cbe342. However, I would recommend that you create a new site in our system for interfaith.mobi, and use that publisher id for your blog. In addition to being in better compliance with our system, this will enable you to get separate stats for your blog and your .mobi site.
It is fairly normal for ads to occasionally not show up — many advertisements are highly targeted and there may simply not be an ad to show to your particular device and location at the moment that you check.
If you set up a separate site in our system for your blog, it will be very easy to check whether there have been successful ads shown. And that will help Andy and me figure out whether the problem is his or mine.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:20 am
Andy,
Where/What can I find out how to make a google compatible sitemap for mobiles. Google calls it a “mobile sitemap” in their webmaster tools section. Can I make one that will work with your rendering of my website through your plugin?
Is this something I want to do? Thanks!
Joe
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:00 am
Nice plugin. I’m using it concurrently with King’s mobile plugin to render a nicer site for Opera Mini users.
One point I found is that while image resize is available on upload, not many users actually want to have such small images on their blog. In which case the images will be too big or rather too large in terms of filesize for the mobile user. You could add a feature that parses the post content and resizes all images in the post to a reasonable size, just like what Opera Mini does.
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Hi Andy,
nice tool. But there is an image upload problem, if wordpress is not located in root directory of a domain, e.g.: abc.com/subfolder/
As I set up the plugin, text upload worked fine, but image files didn’t get uploaded. In the post’s source code the image is referenced correctly, but as the image file isn’t uploaded, it is not shown.
The problem relates to line 1037 of wordpress-mobile.php. As a work-around I hardcoded the $dir_file_path var to the necessary value.
Hope this may others, too.
Bye, Alex
May 4th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Andy,
Awesome plug in but I have a concern…when I put admob on my site it showed up on my regular site and on this site I have adsense running. Don’t want to get banned by adsense is it ok to use both on the same pages? I thought admob would only show on mobile devices…
Dave
May 5th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Hello. Ihave a question about this plugin and non-colour display cellphones. I use Nokia 6510 with textbrowser. My Wordpress looks good with this plugin, but when I try to add a post then: 1. In the password field I can type more than 800 chars 2. In the subject field too (more than 800chars) 3. But in the content field only 60 chars. It’s not good. How can I fix it?
May 6th, 2007 at 1:26 am
I just started a WordPress account and this may be a silly question. I have the PHP file, but am having trouble when I get to these steps:
# Upload wordpress-mobile.php to your wp-content/plugins folder
# Activate the plugin. Goto Plugins > Click Activate
# Customise your site. Goto Options > WordPress Mobile
Can someone share how I get the PHP file in the wp-content/plugins folder? I am not seeing this info in the Dashboard.
Thanks.
May 6th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Quote: J. Pisano April 29, 2007 5:20 am
Hi Joe, if you have one web enabled most of the URLs will stay the same so a normal sitemap submitted as a mobile one should suffice, the plugin does make it’s own navigation pages though so if I get time I might make a simple mobile sitemap plugin to go with this one.
Quote: yk May 2, 2007 5:00 am
Good idea re the pagination of post and page content, I plan to get that sorted. As for resizing images it goes back to the earlier comment about it running a cache before it can do that, that said it’d still require GD enabled.
Alex, thanks for the hack. I’ll see about making further releases more aware of their locale.
Quote: Dave Prouhet May 4, 2007 5:09 pm
Dave, I see you have it sorted now. Nobody else has mentioned that but for reference how did you fix it?
You shouldn’t get banned by Google AdSense for showing AdMob Ads, I think the Google issue is with other contextual / page relevant ad networks like Yahoo.
Quote: snaf May 5, 2007 10:31 pm
You could search the plugin code for multipart/form-data and manually add specific size and maxlength values then reupload.
Quote: Ian May 6, 2007 1:26 am
Hi Ian, this is because you’re using the hosted version of WordPress, I’ve just taken a look at the FAQs for you and it seems like you, and any other hosted users out there, would need to contact them and ask for it to be installed (the more the merrier too I guess!). See Can I upload my own plugins.
May 7th, 2007 at 7:43 am
Does it work with wpmu ?
Thanks for your reply (and for this great plugin !!!)
May 7th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Quote: Education May 7, 2007 7:43 am
Hi there,
I’ve no idea a WMU, it doesn’t create or change any tables which I believe can be a problem porting regular plugins to Mu, if you give it a go I wouldn’t be surprised if it worked or only needed a few minor changes to get it rolling.
Good luck with it, please let us know how you get on with it.
May 7th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Your plugin have gpl license o which kind of license?
I ask becouse we are interested to use and on WordPress MU on several blogs…
Thanks
Roberto
May 10th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Hi,
When trying to upload via mobile I get a 406 status errror?
How do I fix this?
GREAT PLUGIN by the way
May 10th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Quote: Roberto Innocenti May 7, 2007 3:15 pm
Hi Roberto, my personal take on a licence for this would be “feel free to use it for whatever purpose you see fit, hack it, share it, profit from it, if it works smile, if it doesn’t don’t grumble or get litigious as it’s free software”
I’ve dropped a GPL into the plugin though as recommended on the WordPress plugin authors guides.
Quote: Mark May 10, 2007 6:03 pm
What phone are you using?
Are you able to upload to sites like flickr?
Can you post a message without file attachment?
> if yes - phone doesn’t support file uploads / carrier blocking uploads
> if no - remove the enctype and file elements from the form
May 11th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Hi Andy,
Are you using the same regex strings for the plugin on waphitcounter.com? My Palm Treo 680
Palm680/RC1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;MSIE 6.0;Windows 98;PalmSource/Palm-D053;Blazer/4.5) 16;320x320)shows up as Generic Web Browser 1.0, where as my wife’s Palm Treo 750 (make: Palm, Model: 750v) is identified correctly. Thanks for the wonderful plugin. It’s very impressive and well featured!
-JP
May 11th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
No the waphitcounter.com site isn’t powered by WordPress at all, that’s using the WURFL on the back end to identify the handsets. The WP plugin makes a post to WHC with the user agent as it appears, this then takes that to work out the make and model of the phone that appears in the realtime traffic monitor.
Thanks for the positive feedback!
May 12th, 2007 at 4:27 am
Hi,
I gave a try to wp mobile plugin and it’s fantastic. In the line 756 you have a bug which appears when the mobile device uses another time zone than the visited site ( it wont show latest posts). I fixed this by removing “posts WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ ORDER BY post_date…
Another problem that I encounter is the ads and author link are slowing down the page load time. It’s very sloow. I disabled both for the moment. Can’t wait untill the next version.
Thanks !
May 12th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Quote: danyvip May 12, 2007 4:27 am
I think you could possibly play with time offsets to sort the first point, as for the second point I don’t think that the links to me will be slowing it down, I’ve not had any others reporting slow downs or had any problems with another site I’m running AdMob ads on so if anything I’d suggest you make sure the WAP Hit Counter tracking is disabled, that’s the thing most likely to cause a slow down. See just above the comments, labelled ‘Mobile site slow?’
May 12th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Actually the mobile tracking is enabled right now and it is pretty fast. The slow down comes from AdMobi.. Anyway, if no one complained before me I’ll do some investigations as soon as I’ll have some free time..
Thank you!
May 17th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Hi Andy,
nice work so far - thank you very much for spending time on this.
When I tried to read some posts with Firefox using the User Agent Switcher Plugin, I found that the browser didn’t like a number of posts. Firefox complained a “XML processing error” and stopped rendering. It turned out that it didn’t like a & (”amp”) in Links inside Posts. I guess Firefox’s behaviour is wrong, but because of that I just added
$page_content = ereg_replace('&','&',$page_content);(the second & id written “& amp;” without the space) in line 887 after$page_content = get_the_content();as a workaround.Maybe this can help others when experiencing the same behaviour.
Second question: Are there any plans to make this a little more international? Would offer help on a german translation. But I’m unfortunately not the programmer to implement the best localisation solution…
Tanks again for your work, Markus.
May 18th, 2007 at 7:37 am
Hi Andy,
Pretty awesome work, this saved me hours of coding
I’m just curious as to how to implement this on wordpress sites that use a static page instead of the blog format? For reference please see blogkitchen.com. Thanks!
Jorge
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:08 pm
This plugin doesn’t seem to work with Angsuman’s Authenticated WordPress Plugin, all content is available for unregistered users. Any way I can force users to log in?
May 27th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Hi Just installed it on http:sallyinnorfolk.com When posting images from a K800i phone it gives:
call to undefined function attribute_escape () in home/sally…..mobile.php on line 1055
It works perfectly on plain text posts
Cheers
May 28th, 2007 at 3:31 am
andy kick ass app! Hey I created an account with admob, I got my publisher ID. I updated in options with the new publisher ID and admob still doesnt reconginze my site when I log into my admob account and view “my sites”. I looked at the code in word press under “plugin editor” and I noticed that my publisher code was not updating. Can you let me know what is going on? Really appreciate it. Keep up the good work!
May 29th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Quote: Markus May 17, 2007 10:13 pm
Hi Markus,
Thanks for the feedback and the reminder about that plugin bug with User Agent Switcher, your comment prompted me to get it fixed.
The new version 1.3 will have this built in, till then there’s also line 986 (ish) where the get_the_content function is called again for pages. Another thing to consider would be replacing all instances of ‘& amp;’ with ‘&’ from that first to avoid ending up with ‘& amp;amp;’
As for different language versions, it’s something that hadn’t crossed my mind, if someone wants to that’s great but I can’t dedicate the time right now to get localisation written in.
It’s just replacing text with variables and those variables are stored in a language file, it wouldn’t be too hard to do it would just take a while.
Quote: jorge May 18, 2007 7:37 am
Hi Jorge,
Again, thanks for the positive feedback, it’s all appreciated.
That’s a sweet idea, I’ll see if I can get version 1.3 to include the option to select a page as the index.
Quote: Manne May 23, 2007 6:08 pm
I could not get that authentication plugin to work so had a little hack around the show_mobile_plugin function and added the following code under where we get the $home and other values:
global $user_ID;
get_currentuserinfo();
if (” == $user_ID) {
$here = $home.$_SERVER[’REQUEST_URI’];
mobile_redirect(”$home/wp-login.php?redirect_to=$here”);
}
That should do the trick and redirect any users who are not logged in to the login page with the URL being viewed as the redirect_to paramater.
Quote: Geoff May 27, 2007 3:24 pm
Hi Geoff,
attribute_escape is a new function that was added to WordPress 2.0.6 - the best suggestion would be to upgrade so you have this function which helps make WordPress a little more secure.
Quote: jared May 28, 2007 3:31 am
Hi Jared,
I’ve seen your site since you commented and it looks fine now. Is your site showing up okay on AdMob now and are you able to change the value of the publisher key now? Nobody else has reported being unable to change their publisher key, worse case scenario if you can’t is to replace any instance of a144973d165289f in the script with your own key.
If you’re still having troubles with your site showing up on AdMob drop the guys there a line (support@) and they’ll be happy to help I’m sure.
PS Jared, congratulations on a billion messages, that’s awesome!
June 7th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Hi there, I guess I’m a bit late to the party, but it appears that my Samsung SCH-i730 using WM5 and any broswer (IE, Minimo, and the Opera trial) aren’t showing the mobile version of the page. I’m afraid I’m not nearly savvy enough to figure out how to get it to flag the beast as a mobile phone, would you mind giving me the same lovin’ you were giving the Treo folks further upthread?
Thanks Andy, and a damn fine plugin it is!
June 7th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Hi there,
Thanks for your comment, please can you navigate to http://euro-text.co.uk/cellinfo.php which will send me the details of your user agent so that I can modify the code that detects the mobile browsers.
Thanks
June 7th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
All set, thanks for the quick response!
June 7th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; PPC; 240×320)
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Language: en-us
Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: euro-text.co.uk
UA-color: color16
UA-CPU: x86
UA-OS: Windows CE (Pocket PC) - Version 5.1
UA-pixels: 240×320
UA-Voice: TRUE
It should be picked up, make sure the code is checking for pocket pc and windows ce in the function to detect mobiles.
How does this site render when you view it? Does it render a mobile version?
June 7th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Nope, renders the regular, non mobile flavor. I’ve disabled the wp-cache plugin while troubleshooting, but thats the only one that I could think of that’d cause a problem with something like this.
I’ve not tinkered with your code since downloading it this morning, so if its rendering everybody elses wp5 IE stuff correctly, I reckon it’d have to be something unique to my situation. I’ll tinker around.
Thanks!
June 7th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I’ll be damned. I added PPC to the list of functions to identify, and bingo.
Thanks for the tip, Andy, and most definitely for the plugin!
June 8th, 2007 at 1:50 am
In case anyone is wondering what the WAP Hit Counter tracking is like take a look at this:
Sample of live tracking
June 8th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Seems when I activate the program my Blackberry gets an error to the effect that there are to many redirects, and then it halts. If I turn the Mobile Plugin off, the blog looks great on the Blackberry. But then if I use the emulator above I get error indicating it cannot be seen on a cell phone. So I can have it one way, not the other? Anyone else try this on a Blackberry via Cingular?
June 9th, 2007 at 12:07 am
Hi Kaz,
If you make sure the one web option is enabled in the plugin control panel it will disable the redirects and just serve the mobile version of your blog on your permalink URLs.
Cheers
June 14th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Theres nothing worse than having an idea for a “killer app” - and then finding out someone else already thought of it!!
That said, you’ve done a much better job than I think I would have managed!!
Quick question/suggestion for a future version - would it be possible to split pages/posts into 2 seperate entities on the front page? The first thing I noticed is that because I put up a few new pages last night, they’re showing before any of the posts. Depending on whether this is just a case of adding a line to a MySQL query, it may also be worth looking into adding “sort by” options - perhaps created date/modified date/# of comments ?
But of all those, I’d definitely put page/post seperation at the top of my wish list…
June 15th, 2007 at 5:08 am
Quote: Chris June 14, 2007 2:45 pm
Hi Chris, thanks for the cool feedback, I like the idea of toggling posts and pages on the front page, if I understand you right. I also think a static front page would be cool too.
As for doing a better job, thanks but after having looked at your site I guess you could make it a lot prettier than mine is. That’s one of the nicest WordPress hacks I’ve seen.
If you’d like to mash up a template for the mobile plugin I’d love to offer it for download as I’m starting to hate the colour scheme on the current one…
That’s a gauntlet thrown down to anyone as right now I’ve not got the time to work on sorting the style sheet for this to make it look funky.
Right now I’m spending most of my time working on the new Palace Marketing site, this has a mobile internet affiliate deal which will open an additional revenue stream to anyone using this plugin.
http://palacemarketing.mobi/
When I get the next version released I’ll include it as an option in the admin panel.
June 21st, 2007 at 6:55 pm
I’m having issues with my AdMob ads displaying. I have the correct publisher ID entered, but next to where it says Ad: on my mobile blog it just says [0]? Has anyone experienced similar issues?
Thanks.
June 21st, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Quote: Ian June 21, 2007 6:55 pm
Hi Ian,
If you have a new admob account it could be that there are no ads running on your account yet, if that’s the case be patient as they will come. Please do a test with the default publisher code from the plugin and let me know if it shows ads then.
Cheers - A
June 22nd, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Thanks a lot for this plugin !
Alain from Paris, France
June 24th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Hello,
I’m interrested about the posting possibility. But I don’t understand where is the link to post ?
“Once the password is set the link you need to post will appear on your site.”
Nothing appears on my blog or in the admin pannel :-/. (the plugin is well installed).
Could you give me some help please ?
June 24th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
June 25th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
This may sound silly, but this plugin looks for mysite/wordpress, but I’ve moved the wordpress index page to the root of my site (http://betterthanblank.org). How can I make this work for this situation?
Thanks!
June 27th, 2007 at 2:42 am
I can not use AdMob on my site because of its name so I am trying to use another .mobi advertising service. Which file do I place there php code in so it shows up right on the mobile version only? I already had AdSense showing up on the computer version.
I tried editing the wordpress-mobile.php witht he php code for the other adservice but my entire page went blank everytime I added it. Any help would be great.
Thanks
CC
June 27th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Which file? There is only one file!
As for the issue with different ad services, my loyalty is with AdMob, they’ve been wonderfully supportive of this plugin, so I’d prefer to not offer any assistance with integrating other ad services.
June 27th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Well that is unfair to people who are running mobile sites that AdMob does not allow. I used AdMob and they said my site had adult content and I could no longer use there service for it. So now I am looking elswhere. I still use AdMOb on other sites but need a alternate servcie for my site.
If you could help it would be great.
Thanks
CC
June 27th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Hi All,
This is Thomas from AdMob. I understand that there may be some confusion about our policies and I thought I’d chime in. To maintain the quality of our network, AdMob does not permit placing ad code on pages with adult content.
However, if you own or manage a site that does comply with our policies, I’d encourage you to sign up that site. You can review our guidelines here: http://www.admob.com/content_guidelines.php .
Please feel free to email support@admob.com if you have any questions or concerns.
Regards,
Thomas
AdMob
June 27th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Hello All,
I was not saying naything bad about AdMob I think they are an awesome company with awesome service. The AdMob customer service team has helped me a ton in the past with some problems I had.
They just have rules and we as developers have to follow there rules. So I think it is a little unfair for someone to say I am not going to help you edit the code for the mobile plugin because it is not AdMob. AdMob does not allow my site and many others that they determine to have adult content use there service so we have to look elsewhere its that simple. If you could help us who are not so inclined with coding figure out how to edit the php file to include other advertiser codes it would be great.
Thanks
CC
June 27th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
I Love this Plugin!
I am using a Nokia 6682 and I have been able to publish a text post from my phone, but when I try to upload an image it just has a blank page.
I just tried it on my pc and the same thing happened. Any ideas?
Again, LOVE the plugin.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
CC, apologies for not being the fountain of all compassion but if you can’t take the initiative to hack the code yourself you have to accept I’m at full liberty to decide if I write a ‘how to’ for this or not.
Quote: Ani June 27, 2007 9:30 pm
Hi Ani:
I think it may have something to do with memory limits, try adding this at the top of the script after the comments and license :
ini_set(’memory_limit’, ‘32M’);
Can’t guarantee it’ll help but Googling for image upload php blank screen suggest that method than once.
Cool template BTW.
July 2nd, 2007 at 8:55 am
Nice plugin, though it’s displaying the unmoderated comments to mobile users at the moment, which is more than a little annoying
Michele
July 3rd, 2007 at 8:38 am
Hi
I’d really like to know if anyone has made this plugin work with WPMU yet. I’m looking into it right know, but since php really isn’t my language I’m having some difficulties…
I guess it’s really only a matter of changing some wp variables to wpmu variables!? …as I’ve read that some plugins work with both versions.
Thanks for the effort making this plugin.
July 3rd, 2007 at 7:49 pm
Any idea if this will affect search engine results at all? I know there was an issue with Alex King’s mobile plugin, some people were dropping in the search results fast because of that. I’m loving the plugin so far though!
July 4th, 2007 at 1:00 am
Hi Andy,
Since installing Wp-Cache (my website suddenly got hit hard after the iPhone release, so I had no other choice) the mobile version of the website isn’t sent to mobile browsers
I know from looking at your code you have taken some actions to make sure Wp-Mobile is loaded first through the add_action priority, but whatever I try on my Palm Treo or Sony PSP, I always get the full website instead of the mobile version. If you have a test install somewhere, could you please look into this? Wp-Cache is very popular for big websites, but I can’t seem to find a solution after hours of skimming their code and yours.
Thanks so much,
Jean-Paul
July 4th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Jean-Paul
I’m using the same plugin and it seems to work fine.
Michele
July 4th, 2007 at 1:27 am
Thanks Michele! Do you have OneWeb enabled or disabled in Wp-Mobile? Do you have any extra settings confiigured in Wp-Cache?
July 4th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
My mobile website is not working property, do you know why the post link goes to the real post and not to the mobile version?
http://creatiu.com/?mobi
Thank you! I have also wp-cache
July 5th, 2007 at 4:39 am
does this work with the nintendo DS as well?
July 6th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
This plugin is not working property in Wordpress 2.2.1
July 7th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Quote: Michele July 2, 2007 8:55 am
Hi Michele, I’ll get that sorted on the next version.
Quote: Thomas July 3, 2007 8:38 am
I will be creating a MU version after I have the next round of mods sorted. I need it myself now so have a reason to make it so.
Quote: Chris July 3, 2007 7:49 pm
Nobody has reported any search engines problems with this plugin
Quote: Daniel July 4, 2007 10:06 pm
Quote: Daniel July 6, 2007 10:52 pm
I’m pretty sure WP-Cache is the reason. Disable One-Web in the options and add ?mobi and &mobi to the list of URLs to not Cache in the WP-Cache options.
Quote: Chris July 5, 2007 4:39 am
It does it you add nitr to the pipe split array and you should pick it up okay.
Right, what’s next?
I’ll be putting some hours into this plugin once I’ve got a couple of projects out of the way and built my Mobile Web 2.0 empire a little more
What do you want it to do next?
This is the mod list as I see it at the moment:
WP-Cache compatability
Ability to switch and customise style sheets
WordPress MU Multi-User support
Mobile Sitemap generation
Optional set post or page as index
Pages or posts links option for index
Improve Updated today
Add new and Verizon specific user agents to detection
Work outside of the WordPress root directory
Sort out any issues with amp;s
Ability to only show pages, not posts
Do not show unmoderated comments
WAP Hit Counter historic reporting
What else is needed? If you don’t speak your voice isn’t heard!
July 7th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
heres a new issue, a user on my site Using Apple Safari 2.0.4 (419.3) had the site always come up as the mobile version. Do you know why and what I can put in to fix it? THanks
July 7th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
The WP-Cache compatibil