Wordpress for iPhone

Peter — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:51:57 +0000

Yet again I have managed to find something that I would like to do more of, and managed to find a port if it to iPhone. This usually means that I’ll be doing it a lot more and although that doesn’t currently matter with this blog, considering the fact that it has an active readership of approximately 0, it’s always good to get some practice in at writing.
Thus far, I quite like the iPhone Wordpress app. I’m not sure how you do anything more complex than just send text blogs, (or if it is even possible to do any more than that), but that’s good enough for me for the moment. It’s possible that some more features will come out for it later, although I think that trying to port the entire admin panel to the iPhone would probably be a mistake. Luckily I think that the developers feel this way too, and so we should hopefully keep with a reasonably basic app, that uses it’s limited range of tools very well. All iPhone owning WP bloggers should give it a try (it’s free, what’ve you got to lose?)
http://iphone.wordpress.org

Edit: the app has a few more whizz-bangs than I first though, such as a link editor that pops up if it thinks you’re editing a link (although it would be nice if it didn’t try and auto-correct the addresses), and an attempt at a preview in the theme of your blog (it didn’t seem to get on with mine, possibly it’s a bit complex). I’d really still like a more fully-fledged text editor though, as the only way that i’ve found to do any kind of text decoration is with HTML, which is a little too complex on the iPhone keypad.

More Edit: Also installed WPtouch, which is a skin for iPhones/Android making the blog easier to navigte. I’m not completely convinced yet, although parts of it are growing on me. If I actually had any readers, this might actually be a problem, but for now, all is okay.

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Wordpress for iPhone