The mobile web is growing rapidly, and will only continue to grow. The mobile data traffic for AT&T alone has increased by 4,932% over the past three years. By 2013, there is expected to be over 1 billion heavy mobile data users.
There are more than 60 million page views that come from mobile phones per month for Wordpress blogs, proving that your site needs to be mobile-ready.
To make your site render better on mobile devices, Wordpress has launched two new mobile themes that will automatically be displayed when compatible mobile phones attempt to access your site.
Smartphones with top notch mobile browsers (i.e the iPhone) will have a tweaked version of the WPtouch theme. WPtouch comes complete with all the standard Wordpress blog features: search, login, categories, tags, archives, photos, and more. It also offers many customization features through a beautifully designed WordPress admin panel. It even includes custom header image scaling, and AJAX commenting and post loading.
Other devices will sport a variation of the Wordpress Mobile Edition, which is a plugin that portrays your interface specifically designed for a mobile device. It a viewer do not have as sophisticated of a browser, this mobile theme will help sites load faster and display as much relevant information on the blog as possible.
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