A while back I wrote a review of the (then) new official iPhone blogging app from WordPress. Well, it’s been recently updated and from what I can see, they’ve resolved the limitations I identified back then, and added a bunch of new features to make it even more functional.
You can now edit your entire post, even if they contain the “more” tag. You still can’t add/edit optional excerpts though. The addition of a landscape keyboard will make this even easier. Previewing of blogs not hosted by WordPress.com works well, provided your theme supports this WordPress feature.
In my original review I mentioned that only wordpress.com hosted blogs supported mobile previewing, but I think it was simply my blogs theme which was the limitation. I’ve since moved to a theme which supports the latest WP features and I’m able to preview my posts as they will appear on my real blog. Very nice.
In addition to managing your posts, WordPress for iPhone now allows you to create/edit pages, as well as moderate comments, including marking comments as spam. The latter addition will be most welcome to any mobile blogger who gets a lot of comments as it gives you a convenient way to clear through your comment queue during idle time when you’re out and about rather than when you’re at home or work and busy with other stuff.
So nothing earth shattering. You still can’t use advanced editing tools and still no cut & paste, but iPhone OS 3.0 will be taking care of the latter sometime this summer. In the meantime, if you’re a WordPress blogger and you haven’t already checked this app out, or haven’t touched it since it first came out, then it’s definitely worth a second look.
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