After posting my initial blog entry for robotninjamonkey.com, playing, poking, and giving the new WordPress for iPhone application a brutal staredown, I can honestly say it will have a place in my personal toolbox. That’s not to say it’s perfect, or even close, but it’ll do.
Immediately I was attracted to the idea that I could blog without resorting to draconian website mechanics and use an application that would streamline the blog posting process. Granted, on an iPhone, this is a relative statment. Fortunately, WordPress for iPhone serves up exactly what I needed. It’s very short on features right now, but the main items are there: multiple blog support, compose/modify blog, add pictures, set blog status, add tags and set a category.
What WordPress for iPhone does need is a landscape mode, the ability to delete blog entries, page support and comment moderation; all of which have been identified by the people at WordPress. Further down the road, hopefully we’ll see some of the more advanced blog writing and administration features appear, but I personally don’t need this application to do absolutely everything it’s web-based cousin does. It’s a great start and I’ll be looking forward to the next features update.
Nicholas
June 11, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I tried Wordpress for iPhone but found it was more of novelty. Who wants to type out long posts on a little screen. You should have seen me sitting on a chair staring at my laptop – what was I thinking?
Gary Wilson
June 11, 2009 at 3:00 pm
I know a lot of people who feel that apps like the WordPress app are just novelties. I guess the difference between me and them is I can type about 30 words a minute on my iPhone. This makes a lot of apps more useful for me than for those that find typing on the iPhone slow or clumsy. I often Twitter, Facebook and even edit code through an FTP client on my iPhone. Still, not my favorite way of doing things. But I’m often someplace where I don’t have my laptop and my iPhone’s right there, begging to be used for something life fulfilling like blogging about my son’s candy-blue lips.