[Updated 10/5]
Version 2.0 was just released.
Version 2.0 – multiple mobile browsers supported
After a week and a half of hard work Jared and I committed Version 1.0.2 to Wordpress Extend. we lapsed and forgot to test the plugin on the 2.2 branch and now we’ll need to pull it back for a later release when we get everything straightened out for the majority of users.
Mobile Admin started it’s development shortly after Matt requested on the [wp-hackers] mailing for the community to create an iPhone Admin theme in response to the MovableType iPhone beta theme released just a days prior.
Jared did the majority of hard core coding and I centered around the interface and CSS. Since I was the one with the iPhone I was the lucky one to exhaustingly check in and test new CSS changes for testing on the phone, since there aren’t any good development tools for iPhone devs; iPhoney is phony before anyone suggests it.
Here’s the current trac project home for bugs and management.
Here’s the support and suggestion forums. If you have an iPhone we really need your suggestions so please throw them out to us there.
Or if you have any contributions or changes you’d like to make directly just contact us.
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
Details:
iPhone / Mobile Admin UI for WordPress?
The plugin home page is on WordPress Extend.
Contributors
Jared Bangs and Dan Cameron
Gives a mobile-friendly admin UI to browsers by User Agent. The iPhone is the primary supported device for the first release.
Description
Mobile Admin adapts the WordPress? admin UI to be more friendly to mobile devices, specifically phones. The iPhone is the primary target (and only supported device) for version 1, with more to come in the future.
Most common WordPress admin features are supported:
… with more to come in later revisions.
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.
OpenDNS added shortcuts today. I’ve been an OpenDNS user for sometime and it’s an excellent service. I haven’t noticed any speed advantages from their caching but I’m glad that we’re safer with it blocking phishing sites, it also helps with some quick URI typos.
Setting up the shortcuts feature took 2 minutes. I just needed to setup an account and add my IP (which was already populated for me) then add a few shortcuts. Now instead of http://www.google.com/reader/view/ I can type gr or rss and the page loads. I’m actually impressed that I have this functionality without needing to install anything and without it being slow what-so-ever.
If you’re not using OpenDNS on your network or your computers your going to have to spend a few more minutes configuring your router or computer but I’d fully recommend OpenDNS even if you don’t care for shortcuts. Even the network admin has a bunch of great tools like network stats.
Thanks for the great service guys.
I upgraded my server yesterday to the VPS300 plan at Spry. My old server was being hit pretty hard and wasn’t managing to serve the pages at a decent speed, actually if you made a visit in the last few days you would have thought the server was down. I was told with the upgrade my server would be placed on a different nod that has fewer servers so I should see a big performance boost. From what I can tell it’s a lot faster and my traffic is heading back to normal rates, although mint is driving me crazy with it’s inconstant stats.
The price isn’t getting to me yet, I already get a large discount with Spry and TLA is paying for the the hosting 5 fold. But I’m thinking there’s got to be a dedicated plan out there with a similar rate or bunk up with Jared and get our own server and colo it.
I love stats:
Alexa
Looks like moving domains wasn’t a good idea after all. I’ve actually reset the .htaccess and I’m rethinking it a little but I hate going back on what I already started.
Another copy and past from Jason’s original post on scary stats.
I agree that BOOKS are regarded too high, almost as if they are the great tool of knowledge. In the past, books were the mainstay for increasing knowledge, fair perceptions of life and the world. Now it’s different and with many new media streams people can be very knowledgeable, still increase imagination and find avenues of philosophy without even touching a paper book.
Similar to what Nathan said, smart people have convinced the majority that books are for smart people and if you want to be smart you do what smart people do, which is read books. I really don’t see smart people reading because they’ve decided it’s the smart thing to do, I see them reading books because most are introverts and that’s a way of expression. Now I am generalizing a lot and I’m assuming that smart people are smart not because they’ve read a few books but rather they’re smart from the begining. Because it can’t mean that if I read Chomsky (never had) my scope logic is comparable to a genius.
Here’s where I flip-flop a lot.
As I said there are a lot of media streams rather then just books and IMHO these new inlets are ruining us. Since most aren’t calming and thought provoking we turn into fast passed media whores. TV, film, mags, music and the web I read only makes me only knowledgeable in the present rather then the future or the past; decreasing thought and imagination.
Unless we can consciously be aware of the numbing effects of this new media and are retroactively increasing thought through these forms we’ve essentially created a worse replacement to the books that brought us here in the first place.
So, I’m for books but personally I just can’t bring myself to complete a book maybe it’s because of childhood and just in case that’s why I’m going to take an effort in reading to Avery (or making sure Sara does) and limiting mind-numbing media from her.
My other problem; I’ve become a whore to tech, since it’s my hobby I want to broaden myself by reading a lot on the internet but the scary thing, I don’t see an end in sight. With no point of reflection, contemplation and thought in order to create something of my own it’s useless. And IMHO that’s true knowledge, when you’ve created or solved something for others that’s beneficial to all.
I’ve closed the comments so you’d go here instead.
One of my newest favorite sites Godbit has a great article on the “Porn Epidemic”.
We’re going to talk about sexual immorality. I apologize for the “battleâ€? analogy, but honestly, I don’t see a more appropriate place to use it – this issue is nothing short of an epic war, where societies and souls rest in the balance.
As you consider this rampant problem, take in a few statistics to help you determine its seriousness:
* At one Promise Keepers event, 50% of attendees admitted to checking out pornographic material within the past week (Setting Captives Free – PDF file)
* In 2001, 5,656 males were polled: 95% admitted that they masturbate, 41% of all respondents do so at least once a day, and 1% do so 9 times a day!
* In a Christianity Today poll, one third of Christian pastors surveyed said that they have visited sexually explicit websites.
* 51% of pastors admit that looking at internet pornography is their biggest temptation (Christianity Today, December 2002).
* 25 million Americans visit cybersex sites between 1-10 hours per week (MSNBC Survey, 2000).Even though stats need to be taken with a grain of salt, I think we can definitively say that, yes, sexual immorality, even/especially among the church, is a problem.
[Read more - Godbit Project | The Pornography Epidemic]
Measure Map looks like a promissing addition to Google. The reason being: google Analytics is too cumbersome, and confusing to use for bloggers including myself. Don’t get me wrong there is a lot of info collected in great graphs but it’s just to complicated.
Mint still is the best solution for stats by far but if you … Read More »
February 15
I was just contact by the local newspaper (star) about Blogging and it’s effects on Business
The main questions were,
“[do you] feel that having the blog gives you an
edge in finding clients/customers and others. Does it build contacts? Trust?
My response was yes, yes and yes.
What I said,
Finding clients:
Blogging is probably the best tool that you can use to find clients or promote a business.
Contacts and trust:
…I could see that people reading my blog and seeing something personal could attract them…but some posts can be taken out of context or even be blatantly upsetting or disturbing to a potential client.
I never really thought this out before today, but I really think blogging is the best thing to promote business, yours or someone elses.
If you ever wanted to check out Mint the new version allows for non-admin access. So I opened mine so you can go and check it all out. The crappy thing is, on the upgrade I messed up ALL my old stats so it’s not really up-to-date. I did capture that digg spike though.
I love fresh view. … Read More »
December 06
If you didn’t notice all the visitors, I got dugg
again. Sort of strange that I got two big ones in the last two weeks since I always egotistically submit my ‘good’ posts.
Too bad the new mint install messed up my stat record and I don’t have anything up to date. I love looking at stats from things … Read More »
December 01
