Content management systems need applications for smartphones. It is just that simple. As an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad owner using WordPress, you will be pleased to know that an application for WordPress is available to make it easy for you to publish to your blog(s).
Interface
Looking at the WordPress app and its interface, you are not in for the special piece of art but you are not in for a bad one either. Interface wise, the designers have gone with all the usual iOS styles to make an app which is very easy to use and looks the way you would expect a general iOS app to look.
Functionality
Managing multiple blogs is not a problem in the WordPress app. On the front screen you can tab the plus button and add as many blogs as you want to be able to write to (or edit) from within the app.
Clicking into a blog enables you to choose one of the three sections to use. You are able to manage both posts and pages as well as comments, the latter being very useful for approving or cleaning spam.
The edit is no real joy to use when editing the contents of a page or post. Granted, this is an iPhone/iPad app where it would be hard to build in a true WYSIWYG editor but at least something between having to type all HTML code yourself and helping us out a little would have been nice and a big time saver on the iPhone.
A strength of the app is that you can attach photos to a post (useful given that the iPhone has a camera). Yet this comes with one of the bigger downsides. You see, any photo that you add is automatically going to be placed inside the post as there so far is no way to place photos where you want them to be yourself.
Conclusion
To sum up, the WordPress iOS app is a must have application if you have an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and you also have a site or blog that is built using WordPress. Even though you have limited controls in the ways that you can upload images and even though you have to write all HTML code by hand, you get an application that can do these two actions if you need them as well being able to edit comments, perhaps one of the biggest features in the app.
WordPress
WordPress is the iOS application for your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad that lets you update and manage your WordPress blog.
- Automattic
- Get on App Store
- Free
All info was collected on 31st August, 2010 when the app was reviewed.
About Erik Bernskiold
Erik is is a Web Designer, Photographer and Software-Trainer. He is the owner of Bernskiold Media who runs graphic and web development software-training website Bernskiold Learning and web design and development company XLD Studios.
Wow, thats a really clever way of tnhiinkg about it!