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Recent Mobile Launches on WordPress.com VIP

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We’ve been really impressed with the mobile sites that have launched on VIP recently, many of which are responsive websites. Here’s a quick roundup of recent mobile launches on WordPress.com VIP.

Screen Shot 2013-01-31 at 6.45.54 PMQuartz

Quartz’s fully responsive theme is blindingly fast, and scales whether you’re looking at it on a phone, tablet or laptop. The site looks and feels like an application. You can read more about Quartz’s innovative design here and here.

mzl.lbnlkphx.320x480-75LocalTV

LocalTV’s mobile app (available in both the iTunes and Android stores), is powered by a custom mobile theme that is wrapped into an app. It also receives “rich” push notifications, meaning they can push HTML updates.

Time.com Person of the Year MobileTime.com’s Person of the Year

TIME.com’s Person of the Year site was launched in just two weeks using a responsive theme.

Our Q&A with TIME.com Managing Editor Cathy Sharick

Time.com’s responsive redesign announcement

gigaom-mobileGigaOM

GigaOM’s clean site is also responsive, and is easy to navigate on a mobile phone with a slide out menu on the left for sections and on the right for search and social tools.

Screen Shot 2013-01-28 at 4.16.51 PMMetro

Metro’s site is fully responsive, with the added functionality of being able to swipe from one article to the next when on a touchscreen device.

Read more about Metro’s mobile-first redesign

thevivant-mobileThe Vivant

TheVivant.com’s mobile site takes advantage of beautiful slideshows that pop up inside of your mobile browser and allow you to swipe through pages that have both large photographs and in-depth captions. It is a child theme of WPtouch.

Read more about the new StyleCaster.com

Screen Shot 2013-01-28 at 4.30.05 PMNeilLeifer.com

The translating the beautiful photography site of Neil Leifer onto a mobile device can be tricky. On this beautiful site, each gallery is represented by a thumbnail: tap once to see the name of the gallery, tap twice to load the gallery.

Screen Shot 2013-02-01 at 11.40.30 AMWilliams

Williams recently updated their site with a responsive design, which re-orients their homepage carousel from horizontal in the desktop version to vertical in a mobile version, and adds mobile-friendly navigation.

radar-mobileRadar Online

The mobile version of Radar Online provides the full Radar experience, complete with slideshows, videos, commenting and social media tools.

nakedsecurity-mobileNaked Security

Using a child theme of WPtouch, Sophos’ Naked Security blog loads lighting fast, and offers mobile-friendly drop down menus.

RIM’s BlackBerry blogs join WordPress.com VIP Services

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We’re excited to share that RIM’s BlackBerry consumer blogs are now on WordPress.com VIP Hosting!

We also had the chance to stop by the BlackBerry PlayBook party at the South by Southwest conference this past week and we know they have big things in store and we’re excited they’re using WordPress as their corporate communication tool.

Welcome to the WordPress family!

If you have a BlackBerry, don’t forget you can use the WordPress for BlackBerry application to post content to your WordPress site from wherever you are.

[Go to the Inside BlackBerry blog]

[Go to the Inside BlackBerry Help blog]

[Go to the Inside BlackBerry for Business Blog]

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WordPress for BlackBerry Beta Available Now

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The beta version of WordPress for Blackberry, a native application, is now available for download.

Details about the beta and how to get involved in this Open Source project are available on the blackberry.wordpress.org site.

Below is also a quick video overview of the app:

[ Visit blackberry.wordpress.org ]

WordPress Mobile Options

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Looking to blog from your mobile device ? You are in luck ! WordPress offers lots of different ways to keep blogging even on the go.

On WordPress.com we have m.wordpress.com. It’s a very light and speedy version of the admin dashboard, and works well on smart phones like the iPhone, BlackBerry and Treo.

On the mobile WordPress.com site you can post, manage comments, see stats, and basically do everything you normally would do. Just point your mobile browser to m.wordpress.com and login with your username and password.

For self-hosted WordPress there are several plugins for mobile usage including WPhone and the iPhone / Mobile Admin plugin:

Mobile Admin adapts the WordPress admin UI to be more friendly to mobile devices, specifically phones.

The iPhone / iPod Touch browser was the first target, but most other mobile browsers are supported at a basic level, and plugins can be used to customize for specific browsers where desired.

In addition, there are a ton of exciting mobile WordPress projects being worked on within the larger WordPress community — stay tuned !