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By: Rich Gubby

Rich Gubby — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:04:27 +0000

Hi all,

Some great points there but I think a few people have missed a trick.

The best solution is not m.domain.com and it is certainly not domain.mobi. It’s domain.com or whatever you decide your domain is and cater for all visitors no matter what platform they are on.

I’ve tested out a few mobile wordpress plugins and they range from forwarding you onto another domain with no options, to giving you the choice of forwarding certain handsets to a set of URLs that you can specify.

How are you supposed to promote one domain with those solutions?

I’m not going to create a flyer to my site and put my domain as domain.com (oh, and iphone.domain.com, symbian.domain.com, whatever.domain.com) – it just doesn’t make sense.

So to get back to the topic of this post – wordpress mobile plugins – I’ve created one that doesn’t redirect you off but just works with your domain.

It’s got loads of features and allows you to give your visitors a really good user experience completely tailored for mobile.

The homepage URL is here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wapple-architect/ and it’d be great if anyone wanted to try it out and let me know what you think!

If you’re in any doubt as to how it makes blogs look, here’s a link to the screenshots: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wapple-architect/screenshots/

And before the .mobi police get on my case and proclaim “it scores lowly on ready.mobi” – I know it will score fairly low and I am happy with that.

The plugin I’ve created is more advanced than the ready.mobi test can handle so it’s not surprising it fails – if anything, it should prompt the ready.mobi brigade to update their test.

Like I said, if anyone fancies having a try out of my plugin, let me know and I’ll be only too willing to help out!

By: Johnny D

Johnny D — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:26:25 +0000

Ok that is fair to say.

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:09:36 +0000

“Are you saying that the king of domains is wrong in buying what he did in .mobi, he has more money than all of you so are you sure that he is wrong.”

I’m sure he’s been wrong many times and he’ll say so. He was wrong in some businesses before domains (he filed bankruptcy once) and I’m sure he’s been wrong with some things for domains. As he pointed out recently, the money he spent on .mobi domains was really nothing to him. It was a roll of the dice. The fact that he made more money on other domains doesn’t mean much. I’d highly recommend not just going with the flow or listening to what one person says. If you believe in your .mobi domain names, by all means run with it and make them successful.

By: Johnny D

Johnny D — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:15:52 +0000

Yes but if you own a single one worded generic .mobi are you all saying you should sell it and not renew it.

Are you saying that the king of domains is wrong in buying what he did in .mobi, he has more money than all of you so are you sure that he is wrong.

Are you all saying that .mobi does not have the tech to make this work in different way than the way you are looking at it now.

Can someone explain why .mobi traffic is increasing?

None of you can because none of you have the answers.

By: Kevin Ohashi

Kevin Ohashi — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:30:13 +0000

Gerry,
Get over yourself. You’re clearly smoking too much of the .mobi pipe. It’s a technical problem and .mobi isn’t a technical fix. It’s been said over and over because it’s true. The fact you can’t accept it doesn’t make everyone else wrong, just makes you look like a wack job. If mobi is so great, why not invest in it and stop trying to evangelize a worthless extension? If I was sure something would be profitable in the future and was supremely confident, I wouldn’t be arguing to let everyone else know, I would be investing. Or does your whole model rest on your (and your cohorts) ability to convert people to the mobi doctrine? In that case it’s just another house of cards pretty much like every new gTLD introduced since CNO.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:44:00 +0000

I wonder what people will come up with for the reason there is no need for dot mobi 5 years from now.

I mean, hell, its only going on 3 years and we had to hear this same song over and over. Lord, I remember talk on one of the forum in early 2004 about the “no need” for dot mobi.

Sounds like the record is stuck on,

we don’t need, we don’t need, we don’t nee…