WordPress Launches Plugin To Support Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages - Marketing Land

You don’t have to be a huge publisher to take advantage of Google’s new Accelerated Mobile Pages project. Sure, the feature is already live for some articles on major media properties like Vox, The Verge, BuzzFeed, the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Guardian, which all have signed onto the effort that aims to radically speed up the mobile Web. But WordPress, the Web’s most popular CMS, is also onboard and announced today that it’s developing a plugin to the AMP standard. The plugin will enable WordPress publishers to create AMP versions of posts with a single click, WordPress said in a blog post. “We believe that open source is one of the most powerful ideas of our generation. We strongly and actively support a free, open internet. We’re very happy to support an open source initiative like AMP, which brings publishers and technology companies together to make a better mobile experience for everyone.” The plugin is brand-new, and WordPress is asking for help “kicking the tires” and “squashing bugs” on a Github page. You can see the feature in action on this post (as long as you tap through using your mobile phone). For more coverage of Google’s AMP, see our other posts from earlier today: Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, Backed By Google, Promises Faster Pages Try It Now: Google Search For Accelerated Mobile Pages To See Content On Your Phone Faster About The Author Martin Beck is Third Door Media's Social Media Reporter, covering the latest news for Marketing Land and Search Engine Land. He spent 24 years with the Los Angeles Times, serving as social media and reader engagement editor from 2010-2014. A graduate of UC Irvine and the University of Missouri journalism school, Beck started his career at the Times as a sportswriter and copy editor. Follow Martin on Twitter (@MartinBeck), Facebook and/or Google . (Some images used under license from Shutterstock.com.) #wordpress  #smallbusiness  #entrepreneur 

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