If your blog has a decent traffic, you ought to have the mobile version of your site (especially for blogs focused on technology).

Here is the grand list of Wordpress Plugins that will help you easily get a mobile site for your blog:

MobilePress
MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes.

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MobilePress is SEO enabled and detects Google, Yahoo and MSN mobile search bots. These mobile search engine bots will see the mobile version of your blog and get your mobile site indexed in the mobile search results.

The plugin also allows WordPress theme developers to create custom mobile themes for MobilePress enabled blogs.

Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for Wordpress

Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for Wordpress is a plugin that allows you to mobilize your blog in minutes. Every single mobile device is detected and all aspects of your blog are tailored to the visiting handset. Sites aren’t dumbed down to the lowest common denominator but instead use the features and functionality that advanced phones offer.

Mobify Wordpress Plugin
This plugin detects mobile devices and sends them to the Mobify URL of your blog. You must register for a free Mobify account at http://mobify.me in order to create and manage the mobile version.

MoFuse Wordpress Plugin
This plugin allows you to automatically detect and redirect your mobile visitors to the mobile-friendly version of your blog. You will need a MoFuse account in order to use this plugin. You need to create a MoFuse mobile site and the plugin will redirect the mobile traffic to your MoFuse domain.

Mobilize by Mippin WordPress plugin
Once installed any cell phone accessing your URL will be redirected to the Mippin rendering of your blog. The plugin scales down photographs/coverts videos to 3gp format (on the fly) and is also integrated with AdMob.

IamMobiled Mobile
Key features include 1) Mobile Theme “Blue Heart” included 2) Automatic mobile detection 3) Images are optimized for mobile view 4) Make money through integrated ad system. 5) Optimized for touch screen phones 6) Mobile users can even leave comments 7) Mobile users can search for contents.

WordPress Mobile Edition
WordPress Mobile Edition automatically detects mobile browser and shows an interface designed for a mobile device. Mobile web interface is also served to Google and Yahoo mobile search crawlers. WordPress Mobile Edition provides customized interface and styling for iPhone and other “touch” browsers.

iPhone Specific

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This plugin does lot more than rendering mobile site – for instance, you can activate the toolbar for your commentors to engage with the site etc. The mobile site currently works for iPhone (and not on Nokia phones).

Wordpress PDA & iPhone
Wordpress PDA plugin enables the wordpress blog viewable for PDA and iPhone browsers. It is really simple plugin which detects the browser agent and loads a simple theme on fly. The plugin comes with a theme folder which acts like normal theme with all the functionality of wordpress theme.

WordPress for iPhone
Official wordpress app – this app lets you write posts, upload photos, edit pages, and manage comments on your blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. This plugin supports both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress and if you are iPhone user, it’d be a shame to not have this plugin!

WPtouch: WordPress on iPhone, iPod & Android
WPtouch is an entire theme package for your WordPress website. Modeled after Apple’s app store design specs, WPtouch makes your WordPress website load lightning fast on touch mobile devices, show your content beautifully, all while not interfering with your regular theme.

Our Recommendation

If you do not have a problem redirecting your visitors to a subdomain of some other site, try out Mobify or Mippin (Wapple, at the time of writing this article was throwing errors).

But if you want a simple good-looking theme for your mobile site, we recommend Mobilepress (though it’s a little buggy sometimes, as it redirects the web traffic to the mobile site). It’s pretty simple to configure and is light-weight too.

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