Once you have your blog built, you'll want to make it look good for viewing on the iPhone. It would also be good if it looked OK
on a PC or Mac. Luckily WordPress can handle this with ease. Here's what you do for the two different sort of blogs I've shown you
how to set up
For a wordpress.com Blog
Here in detail is what you have to do to make a wordpress.com blog iPhone friendly: nothing. Absolutely nothing. Not one thing -
wordpress.com is iPhone friendly out of the box, it comes with the WPTouch plugin pre-installed. Visit andsotoblog.wordpress.com from your iPhone to see what it looks like and then visit it from
a PC or Mac. Note that wordpress.com doesn't let you change any of the WPTouch settings.
For a Hosted Blog
For a self-hosted blog there are a few more steps to make your blog iPhone friendly
Install WPTouch
WPTouch is a plugin for WordPress which recognises devices like the iPhone and formats the blog accordingly. In the WordPress admin
menu select Pugins/Add New, put WPTouch in the search box and click Search Plugins. There will be several Plugins shown, but
the one you want is the one called WPTouch (probably the top one). Click on Install at the right hand side and then follow the prompts.
Configure WPTouch
To get the best out of WPTouch, there are a few settings that you need to look at. From the admin menu choose Settings/WPTouch.
There are a large number of tweaks that can be made here. Some that ae worth looking at are
Enable gravatars in comments
A Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things
like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums.Selecting this
option means that when visitors leave comments, there gravatar will appear next to the comment. To create
your own gravatar (which will appear next to your comments), visit
www.gravatar.com It's quick and easy.
Default and Custom Icon Pool
Here is where you can load your own icons that you can assign to pages in your blog (pages are like static posts)
and one that will appear at the top of your blog and be used as the icon on your iPhone (when you choose
Add To Home Screen in Safari)
Logo Icon // Menu Items & Page Icons This is where you assign the custom icons you loaded above, or use
some of the built-in icons