Following my other mobile blogging related posts, both my colleagues @AfriGadget - Frerieke & Erik - adviced me to take a closer look at a wonderful (new) WordPress plugin called MobilePress.
“MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes.” - We’ve seen this feature with others before, but - as the author correctly points out: “Plugins exist, but, at best, contain sneaky ads and backlinks and are not all together well written.” I do share those feelings regarding the WordPress Mobile Plugin as mentioned earlier.
Despite of MobilePress being just the right choice for the mobile accessibility of your WordPress-based blog, I am still using the out-dated WPhone Admin Plugin because MobilePress (currently) lacks one important part: it automatically chooses the right rendering option based on the browser.
Now - I would like to choose that myself! WPhone does that by providing a “use mobile admin interface” checkbox on the WP login screen.
Mzeecedric and I recently had to look for a solution to a low-bandwidth blog-access issue and ended up using WPhone. I would, however, prefer to use MobilePress (also because it’s from SA, yay! :-) once such a “use mobile admin interface” functionality is integrated so that blog editors can actively choose a low-bandwidth login to the WP backend while using a normal browser.
(It’s btw interesting to see how a plugin is used for another purpose - something else than what it had been designed for. See M-Pesa in Kenya and how it is used these days.)