As most of you are aware, I have, over the last few years, written quite a few plugins for Wordpress. Some of these plugins have been merely for fun, and others have been for various cool features over on MatthewGood.org.
Last year, Dale Mugford and Matthew Good started pooling all their awesome designs over on BraveNewCode. While talking to Dale a few months ago, we both realized that it would be cool if I started putting some of my plugin work over there. So, as of right now, the entirety of my Wordpress plugin related material has been relocated to BraveNewCode.
In addition, I’m happy to announce the release of the WPtouch WordPress iPhone theme. WPtouch was the brain child of Dale Mugford, a fully featured theme for WordPress that would make WordPress more usable on any iPhone or iPod touch. We demoed an early version over on Matt’s site around November of last year, and have been slowly adding to it over the last few months.
Dale has completely redesigned BraveNewCode for the release, and added an amazing amount of documentation for the WPtouch theme. If you’re looking for a copy of it, head on over to the WPtouch page and check it out — it’s completely free, and should work with most Wordpress installations. Some of the features of the 1.0 release are:
- User-selected theme toggle (between WPtouch view and your site’s regular look)
- iPhone-like application appearance, functions
- AJAX, Prototype, Scriptaculous, & iPhone rotation effects in only 49kb
- Full WordPress search, login, pages, archives, categories, tags and links support
- Theme native social bookmarking support
- iPhone/iPod touch native post e-mailing support
- Ajax comments, posted in real time
- Ajax pagination (users can browse posts like YouTube videos)
- Admin selectable custom icons for pages, logo
- Easily add your own icons to customize your menu appearance
- Admin inclusion/exclusion of site pages shown in the theme’s menu
- Compatibility suite in the admin to inform of add-ons, WordPress version support
- Favicon fetch & conversion to .png for blogroll links displayed using the WP blogroll
- Support for FlickrRSS plugin, Blip.it video plugin
- Automatic Archives page layout (if you have or create a page called ‘Archives’)
Dale and I have put a great deal of evening and weekend work into making WPtouch fully featured, and we’re hoping the Wordpress community makes good use of it. Over the last few days we’ve given it out to a select group of individuals, so thanks to those people for the help. We’re also anxious to get some feedback from some of the first user’s to install it. So drop a comment over on BraveNewCode if you install it.
I’m also scheduled to give a talk at the first Vancouver WordCamp on Wednesday night down at The Network Hub, and the focus of my talk will be on mobile blogging. I’ll be giving a live demo of WPtouch and showing people just what it can do — I’ll post my keynote slides after the event. The generous guys over at Automattic have offered to pick up the first round of beers after, which is much appreciated.
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[...] Click on the picture for download (free, GPL-licensed) and extraordinarily clear and complete instructions. I’ve followed them, as you know already if you’re reading this on your iPhone, and everything appears as near to perfection as one could possibly wish for! Check out these features from one of the authors’ release post: [...]
[...] a fine review regarding her early impressions with screenshots. As well, Duane provides solid information about his theme on his [...]
[...] spoke next entitled “WordPress and mobile blogging” and talked specifically about BraveNewCode and the release of the WPTouch iPhone theme earlier in the week which I had blogged [...]
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