Having recently decried the fact that Apple hasn’t yet made an iPhone-formatted version of its Web Apps Index, we began to realize the hubris of our position since we hadn’t done that either… But now, thanks to our web guru, we can tsk-tsk Apple with the best of ‘em.

Just this evening, we went live with the iWPhone plugin for WordPress from the good folks over at Content Robot, and we’re pretty happy with the results. The plugin installs easily in your plugin directory and automatically reformats your WordPress blog pages to fit on the iPhone’s and iPod Touch’s screens with no muss or fuss. Visitors don’t even have to enter a special mobile version of your site’s address — the plugin simply and automatically detects whether they’re using an iPhone or not and voilà serves them the reformatted page(s) if they are.

And while we might debate about whether or not it’s a good idea to format pages specifically for the iPhone platform (after all, isn’t the whole point of it, as Steve himself said, not to have the “the baby internet, or the mobile internet — people want the REAL internet on their phone”?), we also know first-hand that it’s nice to be able to read a page’s text and see everything without having to pinch and zoom first-thing after it loads. We’re also pleased with the accelerated load times we’ve experienced on our iPhones after installing this plugin and see this as a pretty painless way to serve our iPhone-toting readers.

Obviously, a WordPress plugin may be of limited use in many educational contexts — we imagine a BlackBoard plugin would really kick off the revolution — but iWPhone is a handy start for those of you running class blogs or other independent sites, and we thought it would be polite to share…

Let us know if you’ve got any other nifty iPhone plugins or formatters that the iPhone-education community ought to know about and we’ll be glad to spread the word.