iPhone / Mobile Admin

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.

A plugin for the iPhone/iPod Touch devices is included, as well as a more basic plugin for Windows Mobile browsers. (Consider the latter a “beta”, but it’s mostly intended to be another sample for how to write a plugin.)

Most common WordPress admin features are supported:

• Dashboard sections: Incoming Links, Comments, Posts, Blog Stats
• Writing and editing posts (including auto-save)
• Tagging support in 2.3
• Comment Moderation
• Manage Posts page
• Manage Profile page
• Ability to toggle back and forth to the normal admin view.
• Support for plugins that include fields on the post page
• Compatibility with existing library of admin plugins

… with more to come in later revisions.

Patches are welcome and encouraged; if you’ve got a better looking / better working customization for any particular device, please submit it (via a Trac ticket – see below for link).

Other resources

Please submit all usage questions to the support forums

The Trac server can be used for viewing changes and submitting tickets

SPECIAL NOTE – Testing and bug reporting is especially encouraged, as only one of us currently owns an iPhone.

Props

• To Mark Jaquith for the inspiration of the Clutter Free plugin
• To Alex King for the mobile browser check function
• To Dr Dave for the inspiration for the plugin architecture