{"id":2502,"date":"2009-10-25T12:08:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T17:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2009-10-25T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T17:08:32","slug":"on-formatting-for-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2502","title":{"rendered":"On Formatting for the iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile devices, capable of browsing the Internet, are becoming more and more commonplace, and to make it easier for people on a mobile device, like an iPhone, I&#8217;ve had a mobile plugin for WordPress in my install, the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wordpress-mobile-edition\/\">WordPress Mobile Edition<\/a> plugin, to reformat the blog into something mobile friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, I read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.blog.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/20\/the-hero-is-in-your-pocket\/\">this blog post<\/a> about how WordPress.com was giving users of that service access to two different mobile formats &mdash; one iPhone\/Touch specific, one for more generic mobile devices.  The latter was done through the same WordPress Mobile Edition plugin I was using, and I was curious about the iPhone-specific plugin they were using, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bravenewcode.com\/wptouch\/\">WPtouch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I knew that there are about a dozen people who read this website through an iPhone, from London to Buenos Aires, from New York to Chicago to Seattle.  I liked the screenshots in the WP.com blog post of what a WordPress blog looked like using WPtouch; more bells and whistles, a more inviting layout.<\/p>\n<p>I downloaded the WPtouch plugin, uploaded the files, and set to configuring it.<\/p>\n<p>For once, I was glad I had Safari on my system, so I could use its Developer Mode to see my website the way it would look on an iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>There was actually very little to configure.  I created an icon for the website, which is my first name written in Tolkien&#8217;s Tengwar alphabet.  Then I had to select which pages I wanted to show in a dropdown menu and select the icons that went with each.<\/p>\n<p>The options in the configuration page were generally straightforward.  I overlooked the option to have comments show on static pages, and that was quickly rectified.  I made one coding change under the hood; for commenters without <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/\">Gravatars<\/a>, I wanted the WPtouch theme to default to custom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1462\">Wavatars<\/a> instead of a faceless body.<\/p>\n<p>It looks good, in Safari anyway.  Hopefully the dozen iPhone regulars here will agree. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile devices, capable of browsing the Internet, are becoming more and more commonplace, and to make it easier for people on a mobile device, like an iPhone, I&#8217;ve had a mobile plugin for WordPress in my install, the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin, to reformat the blog into something mobile friendly. Earlier in the week, I<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2502\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Formatting for the iPhone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4095],"tags":[350,351,4096],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-iphone","tag-meta","tag-wordpress","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}