WordPress for the iPhone and/or iPod Touch is now available from the App Store. Keep reading for a brief overview with plenty of screenshots.
- Download WordPress for the iPhone / iPod Touch the same as you would any other application in the App Store (yes it’s free). Sync your iPhone/iPod Touch and it’ll appear on your springboard.
- Tap Set up your blog to get started.
- Enter the relevant info in the appropriate fields.
- Now select your blog.
- A list of your recently published posts (and scheduled posts) will be listed.
- Tap the “write new post” button in the bottom right corner to create a new post for your blog. Start entering info. Tap the Categories and you’ll be presented with a list of all the categories you’ve previously created.
- When you create the actual post, the screen changes to give you more room to work with. Tap the Save button in the upper-right corner to save your post.
- By default, your post will be saved as a Local Draft - which means it’s on your iPhone/iPod Touch - not on your blogs server - yet.
- Tap the Status: field and you can publish, save as a draft (on the server) etc.
- Tap the Preview button from the bottom list, and you’ll get a preview of your post (the yellow fields are AdSense ad locations).
- Tap the Photos button from the bottom list and you can add a photo to your post. Tap Take Photo with Camera if you have an iPhone and want to add a ‘live’ photo, or Add Photo from Library to add a picture from your iPhone/iPod Touch photos.
- I added a photo from my library…
- but when I tried to save it, I got an error (I don’t use the wp-content/uploads/ folder, and it has specific permissions set).
- All in all it’s a very neat app that will come in handy for creating quick posts. I don’t think I’d want to try and write a particularly long post using it mind you.
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Definitely pretty cool, although is there any way to make hyperlinks? Without that, and lack of cut and paste, I do agree this will only be useful for quick, short posts…
Webo - yes, and it’s painful. The “text area” allows you to enter html. So you have to actually type in <a href=…
Unless there’s something obvious I’m missing, which is entirely possible, but it’s certainly not “in your face” obvious.
It’s clearly very early in its development. When editing a post that uses the <!–more–> function, you can only view/edit what’s above <!–more–> (unless I’m missing something, again).
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