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WPtouch Goes Live On WordPress.com
Oct 20 2009 • Written By Duane Storey • 8 Comments

Many of our clients use the self-hosted version of WordPress which is available from WordPress.org. That’s a great option, and allows them to use the latest and most popular plugins. But many people don’t need that much flexibility, and instead opt for using the free WordPress.com service which is run by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.

Years ago I had a chat with Matt Mullenweg down at WordCamp San Francisco where he hinted that they might activate WPtouch on WordPress.com. It looks like that day is finally here— WPtouch is now available for users of WordPress.com.

I have to say, it’s pretty cool to finally see it up for everyone to use. According to that post, over 60 million page views a month are made from mobile devices, many of which will now see their own blog through the eyes of WPtouch. Dale and I have a bunch of great ideas for WPtouch, so hopefully some of the changes we have in store will also end up on WordPress.com in the near future.

8 Comments

  1. Dave

    http://www.thewanderingbrit.com

    October 20th, 2009

    That’s awesome to see that the best mobile client for WordPress blogs has now massively increased it’s usage through this agreement. Great news for everyone!

    • Dale Mugford

      BNC Design Guru

      October 20th, 2009

      Much appreciated Dave!

  2. Thomas Scibilia

    http://www.thomasscibilia.com

    October 20th, 2009

    congratulations, this is huge!

  3. Yoav

    http://wordpress.com

    October 21st, 2009

    Duane, it was a pleasure implementing WPtouch on WordPress.com – we’ll be watching your updates closely :)

  4. Dale Mugford

    BNC Design Guru

    October 21st, 2009

    Hi Yoav, Thanks very much! Duane gets a lot of attention regarding WPtouch, but I’m here too : ) We’ve got some time planned in the near future to give it some more love, many often requested features. So stay tuned : )

    Follow us on Twitter for the heads up on when updates will be pushed out.

  5. Example

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    October 29th, 2009

    The WordPress blog article at http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/the-hero-is-in-your-pocket/ mentions that:
    “…is a modification of WPtouch..”. Are you familiar with what the modifications are?

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    November 6th, 2009

    Love to hear more about this Dale :)

    we’ve got some time planned in the near future to give it some more love, many often requested features. So stay tuned : )

  7. Elizabeth K. Barone

    http://ekbdesigns.com

    November 16th, 2009

    Wow — that’s really awesome! Congratulations!

    I just found out about WPtouch and am going to look into it to use for a client; it would definitely save me a lot of time! Thanks so much for making this available, and congrats again.

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