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Due to the advances in mobile technology, now a days almost all the mobile phones are equipped with Internet surfing capabilities. As a consequence, more and more people are accessing websites via their mobile phones every day, creating the need for webmasters to adapt their websites to these visitors.

Below we cover 10 mobile plugins for WordPress that can be used to make your website mobile friendly.

1. WordPress Mobile Edition

Developed by Crowd Favorite, this plugin has got a clean user interface that is designed for mobile devices. When a person visits your site from a mobile browser, it automatically detects the browser and loads the mobile version of your site. You can edit the list of mobile browsers in the settings page. This plugin enables particular theme to load on a specific mobile browser or device for example iPhone, Windows Mobile, Opera Mini web browser and other mobile web browsers.

2. WordPressMobile.mobi

One of the most popular mobile WordPress plugins, with thousands of downloads. This WordPress plugin makes your blog more mobile friendly, reducing the load time on mobile browsers and configuring your pages properly.

3. WordPress Mobile Pack

Another WordPress plugin for mobile browsers. It has got mobile recognition, device adaptation and it is widget ready. With the mobile recognition and device adaptation feature, it automatically re-sizes the images, split the articles or post into multiple pages such that your web page looks just fine on any of the mobile phones. It has a mobile admin panel so the admin of the site can easily manage it. Mobile ad widget allows mobile ads or mobile Adsense to be displayed on the mobile version of the web pages.

4. MobilePress

You can set this plugin to display a specific theme for a specific device model or mobile browsers like the iPhone, Opera Mini, etc., such that your blog displays according to the device capability. This plugin also allows the WordPress theme developers to develop their own mobile themes for WordPress blogs.

5. Mobile Admin

This WordPress plugin enables you to access admin user interface on mobile devices in a users friendly manner. This plugin is especially developed for the browsers on the iPhone and iPod Touch devices and it supports most of the other mobile browsers at basic level. Mobile Admin supports most of the basic WordPress admin features like editing posts with auto-save feature, tagging support, comment moderation, and more.

6. Mobilize

This WordPress plugin, once installed, will detect any mobiles phone having access to your site and it will redirect it to the Mippin server. Mippin will then rearrange your web page and its contents to suit the cell phone type. For example, if your website has images, then Mippin will re-size the images to fit the mobile screen and videos are converted to 3gp format such that users can have a comfortable and quick access to your site.

7. WPhone Admin Plug-in

This plugin will allow you to manage your WordPress install using a mobile browser. It has two mobile admin interfaces, one is for use on the iPhone/iPod Touch and other devices which supports full JavaScript and features CSS AJAX and sliding menus. And another is Lite version to use on phones that do not support JavaScript. It will automatically switch between the rich and lite versions based on the browser you use.

8. Mowser

Mowser is a service that lets your WordPress blog to be viewed more comfortably and quickly on a mobile browser or on any other mobile device. This plugin will automatically detect when a user is trying to access your WordPress based blog using a mobile phone and it will redirect to the optimized mobile version of your blog.

9. Wetomo WordPress to Mobile

Wetomo plugin will automatically detect when a user is trying to access your URL from a mobile phone. Wetomo will act as a proxy between you and the user, modifying your blog to suit the handset of the user such that your blog looks great on any of the mobile browsers.

10. WP viewMobile

This plugin is designed to make your WordPress blog mobile internet ready. It will detect when a user is accessing your blog via a mobile phone. It automatically sends a template which is optimized for mobile devices. It tries to re-size the images in your blog to suite the mobile phone or else it removes them completely if the mobile browser does not support images, such that your users can access your blog without any problem.

Srikanth is the author of the Tech Inspiration blog, where he writes about gadgets and technology tips.

There are many reasons why people often decide to point their existing blogs to new domain names. Perhaps the existing domain name doesn’t sound attractive. Or, maybe domain name doesn’t fit the topic. Another reason could be that the domain name is a personal name and doesn’t allow the blog to gain a higher level.

Whatever the reason may be, redirecting an existing blog to point to a new domain name can be done. Doing so can be a little tricky though. That is why I put together this list of articles that can help teach you how to do it quickly, and as painlessly as possible.

SEO Guide: How to Properly Move Domains – Published on Aug. 6th, 2009 by Danny Dover of SEOmoz.com. This is a mini-guide aimed at giving people straightforward steps towards moving a domain name while being conscious of SEO. Danny does warn that moving domains can have a negative impact on search engine rankings. He advises that certain steps are followed to minimize adverse affects.

Move your WordPress blog to a new domain in 10 steps! – Published on Feb. 14th, 2008 by Joost de Valk. This is an excellent article that guides you towards moving your WordPress blog in only ten steps. This article to date has received over 100 comments.

How To: Move Your WordPress Blog to a New Domain – Published on Oct. 20th, 2008 by Kyle Eslick. This is one of my personal favorites. Kyle has a great way of writing and explaining things. Especially when it comes to step by step instructions. While this tutorial isn’t summed up in ten steps or published as a mini-guide, it will, however, give you very detailed explanations of the steps needed to move your blog to a new domain name.

Ultimately, my advice to anyone wanting to move their blog to a new domain name is to read all three articles provided above. Most people want to move their blog to a new domain name because its been determined as being the best thing to do for the health of the blog. You can easily limit the level of adversity with this process and actually come out of the deal gaining some immediate positives. Good luck and if you have any comments or questions, please use the comment form below.

Version 1.2.7 of Platinum SEO plugin has been released and the plugin now lets you specify meta keywords and meta description for wordpress Category and Tag pages.These meta tags are especially useful when you choose to index Wordpress Categories and Wordpress tags.

This Wordpress SEO plugin provides the option “Use NoIndex for categories”, to prevent categories from being indexed by the search engines. This option helped you in two ways:

• Ability to avoid duplicate content issues
• Ability to control the page rank to flow to more important pages on your site (i.e. individual posts), than the category pages

However, recent changes in Google Search Engine algorithms, have limited your ability to control the flow of Page Rank to the pages you desire. Most wordpress bloggers would like to list Categories on the sidebars or as menus (at the top).Some even prefer to use breadcrumbs for their posts, which automatically adds a link to category pages.it as a TOC i.e. Table Of Contents in wordpress. This is nothing but very similar to Table Of Contents in a word document, which provides navigational links to various sections in the Word document.

Thus, every wordpress user links to Category pages on his site/blog. Adding a nofollow to such links or a meta NoIndex tag to the wordpress category pages by choosing the option “Use NoIndex for categories”, does not prevent leakage (wastage) of PR juice flowing to such category pages. Hence, it is better to index your category pages.

But then, how would you avoid duplicate content issues? Category pages could become duplicates only in the circumstances explained in the article here on Wordpress SEO options (Refer the explanation under “Use NoIndex for categories”). But, such issues can occur very rarely and you can easily avoid it. For example, it can occur only in a scenario where you continue to make posts under the same category.This can be avoided by making posts under different categories, rather than making posts under the same category, sequentially.

Platinum SEO plugin now makes it even more easier by providing you the option to add meta description and meta keywords tag to the head section of your category pages.

How to add meta description and meta keywords to Wordpress Categories?

• Navigate to Posts –> Categories on your wordpress dashboard.

• Edit each of the categories and add a description about the category.

• Specify the description by enclosing a PSP specific description tag ([descrption][/descrption]) like shown below

Example: (The description can be of any number of characters)

[description]This category will contain all posts on Wordpress, wordpress SEO [/description]

• Specify the keywords for each of the categories, by enclosing a PSP specific keywords tag ([keywords][/keywords]) like shown in the above picture.

Example:

[keywords]Wordpress, wordpress SEO, wordpress SEO Plugin [/keywords]

That is all!!! Platinum SEO Plugin will automatically add the meta description and meta keywords tag to the head section of your wordpress category pages.

If needed, You can even display the description, on your category pages, by adding the following piece of code to your theme’s Category page.

<?php do_action('get_psp_category_description'); ?>

You can even list the keywords, by adding the following piece of code to your theme’s Category page:

<?php do_action('get_psp_category_keywords'); ?>

Platinum SEO plugin provides all the above options for tag pages as well (similar to cateogry pages) i.e. you can add a desciption and keywords tag to tag pages by Navigating to Posts –> Post Tags on your wordpress dashboard and editing each of the tags.

If needed, You can even display the description, on your tag pages, by adding the following piece of code to your theme’s tag page. (But this will work only in wordpress 2.8 or above).

You can even list the keywords, by adding the following piece of code to your theme’s tag page:

Enjoy using Platinum SEO plugin!!! Don’t miss to check out Chennai Central plugin that will help you save bandwidth. The next version of Chennai Central, will also help you to keep track of visits by Google or Yahoo or Bing (including any other that you may configure) search engine spiders on your posts and pages.

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