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Make Your Wordpress Blog iPhone Compatible – WPTouch

Since iPhone was out in the market, I am sure many of you would have notice that there are so many iPhone users when you are on the train / bus / tram or simply in a cafe.  Alongside with the cheaper wireless internet rate, more and more people are using their mobile devices to surf the internet.

Not many people know how to write iPhone apps, though.  Especially if you are not technically minded at the first place.  The good news is that there is now a plugin/theme that can transform your blog iphone-ready in a short time – WPTouch.

WPtouch is a mobile theme for your Wordpress website – more than just a plugin. It automatically transforms your Wordpress blog into an mobile-ready blog when viewd from an iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, or BlackBerry Storm touch mobile device.

You can easily install WPTouch under ‘Plugins’ – ‘Add New’.  Just search for WPTouch and click ‘Install’.

Once installed WPTouch allows you to customize your site including:

  • Setting up a new icon for the blog
  • Change site titles
  • Exclude categories
  • Font alignment
  • Contents of the header
  • Push notifications
  • Style & Color
  • Add Adsense code
  • Add Analytics code

Using WPTouch also increases your website’s load time on mobile devices.

Get UBD Money Theme for Free!

Unique Blog Designs is known to create good themes, including the famous Affiliate theme. Themes designed by Unique Blog Designs usually start at $97 for a single domain use.

Recently they have released a new theme named UBD Money Theme.  The good news is that it is free!

You can have a look at the theme and download it here.

The UBD Money Theme has a clean design.  It is a 2-column theme based in green and grey.  You can change the color if you want, but it is a theme ready to be used immediately once uploaded.

It also utilizes some of the newest theme technologies, such as Twitter integration, Facebook Connect integration, automatic image resizing and one click logo uploading, just to name a few features.

Full feature list can be viewed here.

You can’t beat it when it is Free!  Download now.

UBD Money Theme for Free!

How does your website look on iPhone?

Admit it – iPhone has become one of the most popular PDA mobile phone in the world.  Apart from the functions that a phone usually provides, many people use it for daily web browsing activities.

How does your website look on iPhone?  Do you have to specifically design a different website for iPhone?  The answer is yes.  But it is not easy.

InterSquash now has provided you a free service to ‘iphonize’ your website.  If you are not technically savvy, you can just use the simple version, which you only need to RSS feed and website title to generate the site.  If you want more option, you can go premium, which is still free, and customize the look and add a logo to the site.

My ‘iphonized’ site is located here: http://intersquash.com/feed/b1c2f8a6

Image Alignment Problem in Wordpress

Have you ever experienced image alignment problems in Wordpress blogs? This is probably because your theme hasn’t been designed for the alignment code that Wordpress is using.

To fix this, all you have to do is to include these code in the CSS file of the current theme:

img.centered {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

img.alignright {
padding: 4px;
margin: 0 0 2px 7px;
display: inline;
}

img.alignleft {
padding: 4px;
margin: 0 7px 2px 0;
display: inline;
}

.alignright {
float: right;
}
.alignleft {
float: left;
}

This has been changed since Wordpress 2.5.

The New WebProNews Tools

Fellow webmasters, now you have a new set of useful tools for you for FREE!

The New WebProNews Tools has been launched and it contains 11 tools.  These include:

  • Submitter Bot
  • Twellow
  • Domain Ranking & More
  • Whois Lookup
  • Get IP
  • Spliced – YouTube Splicer
  • Free Niche Website Content
  • Wipee To Do List Maker
  • IM Junky
  • Resize Image
  • Mobile Site Builder

Not all tools are useful for me, however it might be useful for you!  I especially appreciate the Mobile Site Builder.  Now you can build a site friendly to iPhones with it.

Give it a try, you will love it.