We are leading an increasingly mobile lifestyle. At the same time, we are also leading an increasingly connected lifestyle. From the iPhone to the BlackBerry, Windows Mobile to every other smartphone on the market, we want to have a strong connection to the Internet no matter where we find ourselves over the course of the day. The trouble is that many websites don’t render very well in the mobile environment.

You may already know about some of the solutions that make your WordPress blog a little more friendly for mobile devices like smartphones. That’s for the convenience and usability of your readers, but what about your mobile experience with your WordPress blog? The admin area, also known as the WordPress dashboard, is incredibly robust and can appear to be very cluttered on the smaller screen of an iPhone or BlackBerry. This is where the WPhone plug-in can come into play.

This plug-in does not create a mobile version of your blog for readers. Instead, it creates a mobile version of your blog’s dashboard for you. Rather than fight through the regular WordPress dashboard, you are presented with a mobile-optimized version that still gives you access to all the key functions. These include the ability to write new posts, manage old ones, go through the comments, and check the latest activity. The page is simplified, so you may have to go through more screens to achieve the same thing, but that sure beats zooming and scrolling to get anywhere.

Check out the the official page for more information and to download WPhone. It is a plug-in that you install on your WordPress blog and not an application that you install on your phone.