Forgive us while we navel-gaze for a minute, but we were particularly pleased to learn that a mobile app for WordPress will debut in the iPhone store soon. The app will work with both Wordpress.com blogs and on-premise installations of version 2.5.1 and newer. Its announcement comes just over a month after competitor TypePad showcased its iPhone app onstage at the WWDC keynote (you can download it here).
Blogging through Safari is practically impossible on the iPhone due to the excessive real estate taken up by the keyboard. As the demo below shows, native apps have the potential to make the whole ordeal much more manageable, and they could spawn a new trend of bloggers who post while on the road.
Publishers will now have the option to expound on their thoughts while on scene. Before they often resorted to summarizing them in 140-character tweets, or broadcasting them through services like Qik and Flixwagon. The ability to insert photos into posts directly from phone-based cameras will also come in handy.
Perhaps the greatest effect of these apps will be to encourage spontaneous coverage, since most bloggers equip themselves with laptops and EVDO cards when attending planned events. In any case, check out the WordPress demo above and prepare yourself for an even greater frequency of spelling errors in the posts we churn out.
Im soo glad that i finally upgraded to 2.51 last night. I figured they were working on this, but now its official
I can’t wait til this comes out
Cool! But Malaysia don’t have Apple iPhone 3G
I knew this had to come one day! Wordpress is simply amazing.
Automattic certainly doesn’t wait around to lose its seat
Cool, we can probably use that to do mobile updates to our upcoming SmibsTV show when we’re on the road. Stay tuned.
Why not just use the iPhone email client to write your blog posts? Send an iPhone photo by email and write your blog post to WordPress or Blogger. Send a YouTube video through email share with your text from your iPhone and it will become a blog post. You don’t a special app for this.
AMAZING. Definitely sold on getting an iPhone now.
Now , I need to buy an Iphone.. Posting to wordpress was always such a pain…
It’s actually a little surprising that Google wasn’t more on the ball about making a dedicated blogging client for Blogger.
So the rumor back in April is true!! To me, iPhone and Wordpress together make perfect sense. It’s a great example of two fantastic products combining to make something even better.
I’ve been looking for a good way to blog remotely from my iphone for a while - twitter updates just don’t cut it, though the iphone keyboard can be a pain in the arse….
The case for migrating to the 3G iphone is mounting
@ Mark Hendrickson -
Thanks for covering the WordPress for iPhone app.
Quick thing re: the embedded screencastin this post. Since it’s a 16:9 video, if you change “fmt_dvd” to “fmt_std” in the embed code, the video will look much better.
cheers.
You could go through the trouble of installing an application to blog from your iPhone, or you could just blog by email using Posterous.com. Nothing to install, and it works on any device that has email, including but not limited to iPhones.
So when you are on the go, snap a photo on your iphone and send it to post@posterous.com. It will be posted to your blog instantly (even if you have never registered with us). There isn’t even a login to enter!
And of course posting by email works at home, at work, and when you’re on vacation using webmail. Just attach photos, mp3s, or documents and we’ll create the blog posts for you instantly. It doesn’t get any easier than that.
Check out our techcrunch review here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008.....implicity/
What a pity TypePad and WordPress didn’t spend the effort developing a decent AtomPub client for the iPhone, so that it could be used for any blogging platform.
I’ve been using BlogSME (http://www.thesmespace.com/smeutils/BlogSME) for a while now. It’s a free to use web app. That supports WordPress, Blogger, Movable type, and as far as I know is the only mobile blogging tool to support Blog City.
i think http://www.posterous.com is a notable competitor here as well. I really enjoy their simple email upload format
But: How do you blog without copy and paste…?
Typad has offered a valuable service and it will really be appreciative by users.
Mobile and Pc blogging is really a hot market and supposed to be expanding.But I think that it needs a lot of further improvements.
Mobile bloging system will be full of users generated content and current services does not fullfill users demands
My newly acquired iPhone 3g is just itching for this beauty. Hopefully release won’t be too far off.
This type of technology just creates more noise in an overcrowded world. It’s use is both depressing and pathetic.
I wonder if this will change the quality of blogging in general - for the worse. will the format transition into a mish-mash of blogging / twitter style “micro blogging? blog posts as we know them now require a bit more time than the mobile format use case typically provides…
Cool, that can be very useful
I’m expecting to read twice as many posts from you Mark
Can’t wait to try these two aps out. It’ll definitely make onsite blogging easier, and beats using Twitter.
Wow, That’s really cool. You’ll be able to post your article, anywhere, anytime.
hope i can buy iphone to try this app.
There needs to be a client for the blackberry platform. You just can’t beat mobile blogging with a REAL keyboard!
Posted from my blackberry curve!
This is good news for me and the rest of the bloggers who own iPhones out there. This is perfect. This means we can do blogging even if we’re away from our PCs. Love it to death! LOL.
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Very nice.
I love Wordpress to write my blogs, I own one at Gilberto Galea Authority Blog, and now I’ve a chance to write with my iphone, It’s cool!,
I’ll install the soft to look how works.
Thanks for the tip,
very nice article.thanks
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