First look: Wordpress for iPhone

July 22nd, 2008

This is my first post using the new Wordpress application for iPhone.

Overall I must admit I’m quite impressed! The app downloaded all of my existing posts easily and whilst there aren’t any comment, design or page management features, it’s ideal for posting a quick update whilst on the go.

You can easily add images from your photo roll or new pics taken with the
iPhone’s camera to new or existing posts - something which I imagine will appeal to a lot of bloggers. Minor gripe: there doesn’t seem to be a way to specify where the images should appear in the text.

There are also no formatting controls, something obviously made difficult by the lack of drag selection on the iPhone. I could imagine that could overcome by support for markdown-style formatting.

But for a 1.0 product I think Wordpress have done a stellar job.

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Meta: Website updates

June 2nd, 2008

Just a quick note to let you know about some changes I’ve made: As well as a new slimmer layout I’ve also made one or two minor cosmetic changes to make the site look a bit better in Firefox on Windows (apparently even Windows users love reading articles about their iPhones). 

Let me know if you experience any weirdness!

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Wordpress 2.5 is out! Figures…

March 30th, 2008

Right after I finished configuring and polishing my Wordpress installation, Wordpress go ahead and release Wordpress 2.5:

WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages.

“The improvements in 2.5 are numerous” - Of course they are… I just spent all day yesterday setting up and configuring the old version. (Leo Laporte effect anyone?)

Anyway, the new interface looks great and upgrading was simple, so I’m not really complaining. Nice job Wordpress!

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Now with extra Wordpress…

March 29th, 2008

As you might have noticed, I’ve moved the blog over to Wordpress. There’s nothing wrong with Blogger, but I wanted to host the site on my own server and that was really simple with Wordpress. (The iPhone admin interface is also nice to have…)
(For those interested importing my posts from blogger to Wordpress was really simple: Wordpress includes an import feature and aside from one or two formatting issues everything was converted perfectly, I hope -  let me know in the comments if you find anything odd!)

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