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Stephen Fry Talks about WPtouch and WordPress
Sep 19 2009 • Written By Duane Storey • 23 Comments

StephenFry.com currently runs the latest beta of BraveNewCode’s free WPtouch plugin, and is probably one of the largest sites using it. A few weeks ago, I contacted Andrew Sampson (who runs most of Stephen Fry’s web empire), and asked if perhaps either Andrew or Stephen would be able to submit a quick quotation, audio clip, or video clip for my presentation for WordCamp Portland — Andrew and Stephen gladly accommodated.

I just finished presenting it all here in Portland, and thought I would share it for all the people who asked to see it again. So, here it is (if you’re on the iPhone, hopefully this video should now work as well).



Once again, a very big thanks to Andrew Sampson and Stephen Fry for being a part of the conference here in Portland, and for talking about WPtouch and WordPress.

I’ll post my slides over the course of the weekend, along with a few links to other resources. Until then, I’ll probably be enjoying a few beers down here in Portland.

23 Comments

  1. Duane Storey

    BNC Development Guru

    September 20th, 2009

    Yah I saw your tweet about it. Glad you got to see the rest here.

  2. Jerome Carter

    September 20th, 2009

    Video is very good on iPhone. Nice and slick interface looks like some hard work has been put into setting it all up. Keep up the good work. Am currently looking to transfer my blog. Is there somewhere I can get info on how to download and set up WPtouch and relevant software. ???

  3. Duane Storey

    BNC Development Guru

    September 20th, 2009

    Basically you just need a self-hosted WordPress site to run WPtouch. Once you have that, you can simply go “Plugins”, “Add-New”, “WPtouch” in the administration panel for WordPress, and it’ll basically be up and running.

    Glad the video worked on the iPhone, and thanks for dropping a comment.

  4. Peeteersmith

    September 20th, 2009

    Omg SFry you look so sexy here!! Like Wow! A little like Derren Brown too … Mmm :-)

  5. Chris Hannah

    http://www.chrishannah.co.uk/chad

    September 20th, 2009

    Couldn’t agree more. WP touch is an essential plug in with so much of our web viewing being through iPhone. Only wish the option to switch to regular view was located at the top somewhere in case the user isn’t tech-savvy enough to realise that the site can also be seen in it’s original format, without having to scroll through a bunch of posts to see the button. Small gripe I know. Still love the plugin! Great work.

  6. John Lilley

    http://lilley.family.btinternet.co.uk

    September 20th, 2009

    Could not find the plugin for Firefox?

  7. anthony

    http://www.sinbbq.blogspot.com/

    September 20th, 2009

    i have no idea what WPtouch is, but does it photoshop webcam entries on the fly? (or as in this case, on the fry.)

    stephen is looking very fine indeed.

  8. Duane Storey

    BNC Development Guru

    September 20th, 2009

    It’s a plugin for WordPress that allows your WordPress website to look different (arguably ‘cooler’) when viewed for the iPhone.

  9. JP

    October 18th, 2009

    Video doesn’t work in Firefox, Chrome or Explorer.

    Just use Youtube or Vimeo.

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      January 31st, 2010

      Do you have Quicktime installed? If not then it wouldn’t work in any browser.

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