WordPress Blogging With An iPhone
The WordPress team has developed an iPhone app for WordPress that lets you write posts, upload photos, edit pages, and manage comments on your blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch.
With support for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress 2.7 or higher, WordPress bloggers can access and manage their blogs on the go. Since I don’t have an iPhone I can’t really review this app but have tried several other smart phone plugins to manage WordPress and found them somewhat difficult to use. But that has been over a year now and I should probabaly give them another look. Regardless, if you must blog on the go then you might want to give it a shot. Here are some of the features or fixes of the latest release of WordPress for iPhone 2:
- A new, more efficient user interface that makes it faster to switch between comments, posts, and pages.
- Various user interface refinements and bug fixes
- New Comments interface, with Gravatars and the author URL shown in the comment list
- Passwords are now stored in the keychain
- Posts are now automatically saved and restored if network connection is lost during publishing
- Added persistence, so the app re-opens in the blog you last used
- Added an interface for manually entering the XMLRPC endpoint for non-standard setups
- Fixed rotation-related visual glitches
- Fixed errors where malformed XML prevented access to XMLRPC endpoint
- Fixed edge case where local drafts were sometimes not saved
- Fixed the order of photos so that they’re displayed in the order they’re uploaded
Learn more about it at the WordPress for iPhone site.
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This is really very nice information for iphone user. They will not required to work by sitting in front of their PC,
Well I am also not using iphone, thank you for this post.
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It must be challenge to type the blog posts on iphone
I need to write some text on my xperia communicator which has not only touch screen but also keyboard but it takes too much time to type longer texts.
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Breathalyzers Replied:
November 14th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Agreed! As much as I love my iPhone, I keep emails, etc. really short. Now a voice recognition app… that would work
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Brett.
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Whew, another one without an iphone, so I’m not the last person on the face of the planet not to have one!
Seriously, maybe it’s because I’m in my late thirties? the generations gap setting in? I just can’t get the hang of texting. I only do it if I have to and I just can’t imagine blogging via my phone. Give me a keyboard please!
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Awesome. I never thought that blogging could be done through iPhone. It’s really awesome.
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I’ve already downloaded wordpress for iphone and I just detect all the options now. But I already appreciate the option that posts are saved when conecction is lost.
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I have blogged via my iphone, it is not as fun if you have to write a lengthy post, however, for a quick update it is very valuable.
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Tried it just now. It’s not so bad. I mean, yeah its time consuming..but the fact that you can blog on your IPhone when you are away from the comp is amazing.
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Well its good I don’t need a PC anymore to write and post my blogs. This was a great idea. It makes us more comfortable. Most of the time I am posting blogs for internet t1 sites and this could be very easy for me to post in my iPhone.
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make easier for my iphone ..thank you
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I tried it ..Its really good….Its really very time consuming….
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Well! its really cool that we can write posts, upload photos, edit pages, and manage comments on blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. WordPress team make it possible.
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Interesting post. *Raises hand* Another non-iphone user. Would consider it though if it AT&T wasn’t the only service provider.
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Great marketing strategy for Iphone. I’ll be tempted to buy one.
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IPhone app for WordPress is developed by the team of wordpress. It is popular for user interface refinements and bug fixes and so many other features.
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Wordpress App for iPhone is pretty cool.
But TBH, i think we need more than posting features.
btw, Don’t forget to enable XML-RPC on your wordpress
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A quick note about installation: WordPress for iPhone 2 is a new app, and the previous version won’t automatically update to 2.0. Installing it won’t overwrite any previous version you have installed. When you launch the new app, you’ll immediately see “Version 2.0″ at the bottom of the screen. When you’re no longer using it, you can safely remove the previous version from your device.
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I never thought that blogging could be done through iPhone. It’s really awesome. Its a new experience for me.
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If I had an iPhone I would definitely get this app. I am still in my current contract but it will be up soon. Not sure if I should go with the iPhone or the Verizon Droid.
I’ve heard the iPhone service is horrrrible!
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Well that’s cool, it means that that now i can blog on the move.It will be just great to have an app in i Phone which will help even other blogger to blog on their phone.
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it was great so i don’t need to enhance my pc anymore to post my blogs. posting blogs in my iphone is very comfortable. i am doing and posting more blog for timeshare relief so it is very helpful for me.
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It would be more of time saving along with lots of ease in work. As we could access WP from i Phone it would come handy under any circumstances.
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It’s applications like this one that makes the iPhone a big hit among bloggers. That, despite the ridiculous price tag for this phone. For sure a lot of website owners will flock to Apple stores again…
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Good information for all of us. Wordpress and Iphone is almost like two perfect things together. Now I will be able to blog while I am on the go. Perfect, very good news.
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This is a good news… I think that would be great Wordpress from Iphone.
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Good news, with this I can update my blog from anywhere, cool.
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Wonderful man I am so glad to hear this, I cannot wait to use WordPress for iPhone 2. I have been using WordPress for iPhone 1 and it was pretty good… but I am definitely hoping that version two will improve on a number of things…thanks a lot.
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Great app! The ability to blog through cell phones is bound to change the entire blogging industry. Now people don’t have to lug around their laptops just to keep their blog up to date. Very cool.
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Really like the iPhone App. I blog more often when I am out traveling than I do at home, so I really need this.
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I tried this…. This is so cool….
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It is very exiting to know that you can use i phone to access WP. It is simple and awesome idea.
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Wow… didn’t know this before. Mobile Blogging is born…
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On WordPress.com blogs, all communication (done over XML-RPC) is by default going to use an encrypted connection via SSL. For self-hosted WordPress, if you have SSL enabled, WordPress 2.6.1 or later supports pointing the RSD information at the “https” version of xmlrpc.php which creates an encrypted communication link with the App.
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Jeff Replied:
January 10th, 2010 at 10:30 am
Glad you cleared that up for us.
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well this is just fantastic. this works great for my personal blog i can update it whenever.
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I can’t stand typing on the iPhone. I can’t imagine myself blogging on the iPhone when I have to type so many words out. I would probably break the phone!
-Kai
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I’ve tried this and it is good for short posts, or to quickly add a picture, but longer ones are a pain typing out on the iPhone.
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The app looks really nice, but how often would you write a post on your iphone, it’s definitely doable. I mean I’ve written blog comments before via the iphone.
My biggest fear when doing that is that I will hit submit and something will go wrong and i lose the text, that’s always the worst.
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