Essential iPhone Wordpress (v2.7) plugins

Posted by james on February 19th, 2009 at 05:49pm Comments

Wordpress is the most popular blogging program out there, while the Apple iPhone is the most popular smartphone out there. Combining both of them together equals to a lot of iPhone owners running or browsing a lot of iPhone blogs. And below we’ve compiled a list of essential iPhone plugins for Wordpress (compatible with Wordpress v2.7).

These Wordpress plugins will allow you to make your Wordpress blog more accessible for iPhone users, or easier for you to update as an iPhone owner.

Wordpress for iPhone plugin
Wordpress for iPhone plugin is the ultimate plugin for bloggers that double as iPhone owners. Whenever you access your Wordpress admin section this plugin will format it for your iPhone’s screen, making its features more accessible (and faster to load) for you. You can also manage multiple Wordpress blogs at once from one iPhone-optimized admin interface. This plugin was released by the makers of Wordpress themselves, hence it’s very well thought out and almost bug free.

Rating: 9/10

WPtouch: WordPress On iPhone
- WPTouch iPhone plugin allows you to easily make an iPhone-optimized version of your blog. Readers accessing your blog from their desktop computers will see the regular site version, while readers accessing your blog from their iPhone or iTouch will see an iPhone-optimized version of your site that looks identical to standard iPhone apps/webapps interface, therefore speeding up the loading time. But if your users don’t like the iPhone-optimized site version, they can switch to the regular site at any time!

Rating: 8.5/10

Smart YouTube
Smart YouTube iPhone plugin’s only purpose is to allow you to easily embed YouTube videos into your Wordpress blog posts. It is compatible with both the iPhone and the iTouch, as well as your regular desktop computers! Good plugin, but some more features would’ve been good.

Rating: 7.5/10

iPhone Google Map Tracking
iPhone Google Map Tracking plugin enables you to add your geolocation to your posts using your iPhone’s GPS feature and GMaps.

Rating: 7.5/10

iPhone Webclip Manager
iPhone Webclip Manager plugin allows you to make a custom icon for your Wordpress site — or even your Wordpress MU (MultiUser) site (it allows for each individual WPMU blog to have full support for custom webclips). Still a bit buggy, though.

Rating: 7/10

Iphoneize my Feed
Iphoneize my Feed plugin allows you to create an iPhone-optimized Wordpress RSS feed, featuring an icon of your choice. Sort of limited in functions, if you ask us. Certainly needs a new version, although it’s functional as it is.

Rating: 6/10

Well, that’s all the useful Wordpress + iPhone plugins we could think of for now. They should all be compatible with the latest Wordpress version v2.7 (and its revision, v2.7.1).

Do you know any other good Wordpress plugins for the iPhone? Leave us a comment so we could include them in our next compilation!

 

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