Comments on: WordPress for iPhone http://theblogthatnoonereads.davegrijalva.com/2008/07/24/wordpress-for-iphone/ Except for you. You read it. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:48:05 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9-rare hourly 1 By: Kevin Elliott http://theblogthatnoonereads.davegrijalva.com/2008/07/24/wordpress-for-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-31319 Kevin Elliott Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:53:27 +0000 http://theblogthatnoonereads.tunasoft.com/2008/07/24/wordpress-for-iphone/#comment-31319 I was initiatially very excited for this! Once I played with it I realized a few things that REALLY urk me, because I've become really accustomed to the full admin interface. 1) It's not compatible with the latest WordPress (a real bummer). 2) It has no rich-text editor that I've become very use to, and entering html tags on the iPhone keyboard is a pain in the ass (lots of shift and # clicking). 3) It puts all images attached at the end, and does not give you the ability to embed them in places you'd like to, or even optionally size them. 4) Drafts are not really drafts! They use a different draft categorization than the admin web interface does. So if you have any plugins that send email notifications to your user base (subscriptions) they are immediately notified of your draft, which of course doesn't even exist publically yet. Also, your existing drafts (made in the admin web interface) show up as non-draft on the iPhone. 5) You can not set titles on the images you upload! There are a lot of other little quirks, but it's a nice first effort. Since they've released the source code, hopefully people will contribute nice patches and bring this sucker up to speed. I'm really happy they released this. In the meantime, I actually find that the WordPress iPhone admin interface plugin is really robust, and is presented in an iPhone friendly way in Safari. You should check it out if you haven't yet. I was initiatially very excited for this! Once I played with it I realized a few things that REALLY urk me, because I’ve become really accustomed to the full admin interface.

1) It’s not compatible with the latest WordPress (a real bummer).

2) It has no rich-text editor that I’ve become very use to, and entering html tags on the iPhone keyboard is a pain in the ass (lots of shift and # clicking).

3) It puts all images attached at the end, and does not give you the ability to embed them in places you’d like to, or even optionally size them.

4) Drafts are not really drafts! They use a different draft categorization than the admin web interface does. So if you have any plugins that send email notifications to your user base (subscriptions) they are immediately notified of your draft, which of course doesn’t even exist publically yet. Also, your existing drafts (made in the admin web interface) show up as non-draft on the iPhone.

5) You can not set titles on the images you upload!

There are a lot of other little quirks, but it’s a nice first effort. Since they’ve released the source code, hopefully people will contribute nice patches and bring this sucker up to speed. I’m really happy they released this.

In the meantime, I actually find that the WordPress iPhone admin interface plugin is really robust, and is presented in an iPhone friendly way in Safari. You should check it out if you haven’t yet.

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