Not surprisingly, the WordPress community was already developing methods to handle the browsing experience on the iPod/iPhone, resulting in a number of plug-ins such as: iWPhone and WPhone.

I chose to go with iWPhone as my plug-in of choice as it was pretty straight forward to implement and I took the liberty of making one small mod to it. iWPhone allows iPod/iPhone visitors to see an optimized version of your blog theme which is better suited for the kind of browsing experience it delivers. Here are some screenshots from my dev site (you will need to view my blog through your iPod/iPhone in order to see what it looks like live.

There are a few caveats when it comes to creating content for a iPod/iPhone WordPress theme, and two of the biggest gottachs are:

• Length of your content;
• Size of your images/media;

The first point isn’t an issue if you’re not the type to write copious content; however the second point is a stickler for all writers. When it comes to including media in your blog such as images and embedded video (that’s another issue), you have to have a method for dealing with the sizes intended for larger screens. Ideally, you have about 320px to work with, less if you like to use margins like I do. the iWPhone theme comes with a nifty little bit of JavaScript that goes through your markup and resizes all of your images. I have yet to extend it for other media (hopefully future-proofing it for when the flash plug-in becomes available). But other than those two points, there really isn’t all that much to hold you back from creating decent themes for the iPod/iPhone.

For some further reading on creating content for the iPod/iPhone, check out the Apple Developer Connection – iPhone Dev Center, and a little bi of “light” reading at the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines wiki.

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If you’re looking for other options, there’s always Google!