We’ve just added a mobile theme to the university blogs social network. This means that all of the social networking features, such as member profiles, the activity stream, groups and messaging are now automatically formatted for the iPhone, iPod Touch and Android phones. Unfortunately, other phones are not yet supported when using the social network.

We’ve also made improvements to the default ‘CWD’ blog theme. Similarly, this will now reformat for the Apple and Android devices.

If you use a different theme for your blog, you can activate the WPtouch plugin. This will reformat your blog for a number of mobile phones devices. Just activate WPtouch from the plugins panel in your Dashboard.

Finally, there are iPhone, Android and Blackberry apps available for WordPress. Search for them in the respective apps store. To use these apps, you also need to allow them access to your blog. You can do this by going to your blog’s Settings > Writing and checking the XML-RPC box next to ‘Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols.’

You can make your blog more easily viewable on a mobile device by activating two plugins. The process is simple:

1. Go to your Dashboard and click on Plugins, on the right of the screen.
2. Look for the WPTouch and WordPress Mobile Edition plugins and Activate them.
3. That’s it. Do NOT change your Theme. The plugins will automatically optimise the display of your blog when viewed on a mobile phone, iPhone or iPod Touch. WPTouch has various Settings which you can experiment with if you wish.
4. If you use an iPhone, you can download the WordPress app and update your blog from your phone. Nice!