Big Break for WordPress Users: 18 Million WordPress Websites in iPad Format

WordPress.com site masters and bloggers, celebrate! Each of the web hosting service site’s 18 million blogs can now be used in the iPad-friendly program, filled with touch effects and friendly settings.

Automattic, the creator of WordPress.com, made a whole new attribute that will turn WordPress.com blogs straight into app-like spots that work on tablets. The corporation affirms the fact that they worked well with NYC-based startup Onswipe to generate a completely blog-rich experience to Apple’s iPad. Onswipe supplies writers and publishers straightforward methods to make tablet-optimized sites.

“Our iPad-optimized view is app-like in its functionality, but pure HTML5 goodness on the backend,” said WordPress’s Nick Momrik in a blog post announcing the new feature. “It supports touch interactions, swiping, rotation and many other features of the iPad.”

Your iPad-optimized websites will have a module interface, so that it is feasible for publishers to change the appearance and feel with their sites. The WordPress.com Dashboard now involves choices to adjust fonts, develop personalized covers and alter themes. The iPad optimization capabilites also offers a WordPress plugin for anyone who goes for new self-hosted Hubpages.net blog site.

“The iPad provides a ton of new opportunities for readers to experience the web and focus in on what matters: the content itself, while making use of what’s possible now with swipe gestures,” Onswipe CEO Jason Baptiste told Mashable. “Automattic powers over 18 million sites and believes in the open web, so it was a great place to start showing the benefit of the web over native apps.”