This blog is aimed at helping publishers get the most out of WordPress. We’ll cover features that are often overlooked, we’ll highlight plugins that extend WordPress functionality, and we’ll showcase interesting sites being built with WordPress.
From Harvard Law’s Dan Collis-Puro, a how-to on optimizing your WordPress MU install, using Nginx as a front-end proxy cache for WordPress:
We put an nginx caching proxy server in front of our wordpress mu install and sped it up dramatically – in some cases a thousandfold. I’ve packaged up a plugin, along with installation [...]
Back in July we posted about the remarkable project that WNET (PBS of NYC) put together with Tierra to launch 50 sites in ten months using one CMS, WordPress.
Dan Goldman and Jamie Trowbridge who headed up that project, were kind enough to present a case study of how it was all done, at the recent [...]
Looking to blog from your mobile device ? You are in luck ! WordPress offers lots of different ways to keep blogging even on the go.
On WordPress.com we have m.wordpress.com. It’s a very light and speedy version of the admin dashboard, and works well on smart phones like the iPhone, BlackBerry and Treo.
On the mobile WordPress.com site you can post, manage comments, see stats, and basically do everything you normally would do. Just point your mobile browser to m.wordpress.com and login with your username and password.
For self-hosted WordPress there are several plugins for mobile usage including WPhone and the iPhone / Mobile Admin plugin:
Mobile Admin adapts the WordPress admin UI to be more friendly to mobile devices, specifically phones.
The iPhone / iPod Touch browser was the first target, but most other mobile browsers are supported at a basic level, and plugins can be used to customize for specific browsers where desired.
In addition, there are a ton of exciting mobile WordPress projects being worked on within the larger WordPress community — stay tuned !
Pfft, you mention Mobile Admin rather than WPhone which beat it in the Automattic-sponsored competition? Bah.
thanks Viper007Bond. I added that link to WPhone as well.
Hi
I appreciate this post was made some time ago now, but thought you might want to know about the Mippin mobile plug in too?
Its just a suggestion of course, but not only does Mippin mobilize a blog but it will also launch it in to a community of mobile users who are already checking out other blogs on mobile.
Basically Mippin has created a wide community of content, people, news, blogs, video, images, listings etc, all of which is connected around similar interests between readers using their mobile to interact. And there’s a lot of them too. Plus the mobilized blogs look fantatstic… though that’s subjective of course!
Well if you’d like to you can find out more about the wordpress plug in here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mobilize-by-mippin-wordpress-plugin
And for more info on mippin check out http://www.mippin.com/mobilizer – to quickly mobilize your blog to the mippin mobile community and to anyone else coming to your blog via mobile.