WordPress for the iPhone Released

Hey did you guys know a new iPhone came out a couple of weeks ago? Along with that Apple launched the App­Store so you can now install third party appli­ca­tions on the iPhone. One of the great appli­ca­tions that was recently released is Word­Press for the iPhone. This is an appli­ca­tion with some great fea­tures that allows you to write for your blog on the go. In fact I’m writ­ing this post on my iPhone right now!

Set­ting up the app to use with your blog is quite simple. It is a matter of giving it your blog URL and your login infor­ma­tion. After it logs into your blog it shows all of your cur­rent posts and you have the abil­ity to edit any of those and create new ones.

Cre­at­ing new posts is where this appli­ca­tion comes in real handy. While it isn’t that great to type on for long posts (my thumbs are already tired) it’s great for quick posts and it even gives you some great fea­tures like being able to add photos from your library or camera very easily. Posts are auto­mat­i­cally saved as local drafts on the iPhone and you have options to save as a draft on the blog, pub­lished, pri­vate, or pend­ing review. You can also assign cat­e­gories and tags to the post. Sync­ing with your blog works very well too as soon as a post is saved on the iPhone it the changes show up on the blog.

While this is a great tool for writ­ing blog posts it has no tools for admin­is­tra­tion you have no access to dis­able or enable plu­g­ins and there is no way to admin­is­ter com­ments at all. Over­all I think it is a great app for the iPhone that makes post­ing on the go easy and fun.