If you run a WordPress blog either on your own server or through WordPress.com, your blog just became Flipboard-style cool on iPad, thanks to an awesome new feature which turns any WP blog into a beautiful, flickable animated magazine… all through the magic of HTML5.
Designed by Onswipe, the feature lets you flick through stories, tap into them to drill down through them and swipe to browse. The animations are gorgeous. Here’s an example, though you’ll need to have your iPad handy to see the magic.
If you’ve got a blog hosted on WordPress.com, this functionality should have already gone live for you. On the other hand, if you’re self-hosting a WordPress blog, you’re just a plugin away from making the functionality live for your visitors.
Very, very cool. Let’s see if we can get Leander to spring here on Cult of Mac.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
8 responses to “Millions of WordPress Blogs Now Act Like Flipboard on iPad”
Nice. Since I’m on my computer, is there a video of this somewhere?
What the!! Link goes to amazone… Seriously?
Looks fantastic, apart from all the missing video links.
Beautiful! Too bad WordPress didn’t warn developers like myself that their blogs without pictures, which feature html tables in the posts and feature RSS widgets would look awful on an iPad! Oh, well, there is something to the saying that it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. At least the feature can be turned off.