Chapter 11. Basic WordPress Mobilization
WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER?
Introduction to WordPress
Exploring the functionality of two major mobile plugins: the dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack and WPtouch
Learning about other mobilization options, as well as WordPress' own mobile administration app
In this chapter, you will commence your review of three major Content Management Systems and how to mobilize their content. For each platform, two chapters are presented: In the first, you will look at how they can be mobilized through the use of standard and third-party plug-ins; in the second, you will learn how to customize the CMS platform to further enhance the mobile experience for your users. First up is WordPress, followed by Drupal, and finally Joomla!.
AN INTRODUCTION TO WORDPRESS
WordPress is an open source platform designed primarily to run blogs. The project was started in 2005 and is managed by a company called Automattic, founded by the project's original author, Matt Mullenweg.
It is by far the most popular blogging platform (according to statistics from BuiltWith) and is used for tens of millions of blogs and sites worldwide — both as standalone installations (downloaded from http://wordpress.org) and as part of the WordPress managed service (http://wordpress.com). Although still used very widely for pure blog-based websites, WordPress has matured over the last few years into a viable framework for building all sorts of sites and, with the release of v3.0 in particular, can reasonably ...
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