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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Creating an iPhone-friendly version of your blog


Apple iPhone is very good at displaying web site. However, due to the small size of the screen it isn't always easy to read on—particularly on blogs which have a magazine layout.

In order to help people read your blog, even on their iPhone, you should create a mobile version of your web site.

Getting ready

Creating a mobile version of your web site requires you to create a second theme for your blog. If the visitor is using a regular browser, you display your normal theme. If you detect that the visitor is using the iPhone (or any other mobile device) then you display the made for iPhone theme.

Lot of work, isn't it? Luckily, a great WordPress plugin can handle all that for you. This plugin is called iWPhone and was released in 2008 by Content Robot. The following screenshot shows iWPhone plugin, in action, on an iPhone:

How to do it...

Installing and using the iWPhone plugin is very easy. Carry out the following steps to get started:

  1. Grab your...