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The native iPhone Wordpress application has finally appeared in the App Store.

It’s a free download and allows you to manage your Wordpress based blog quickly and easily.

So,  first impressions?

Well, as a test I wrote this post using the app.  It seems fairly buggy, while taking screenshots and flicking between the various screens I’ve had a couple of instances where the app quit unexpectedly.

As the editing is fairly limited in terms of layout (pictures are easy to add but not exactly easy to move around) I created the post on the iPhone, then did my final adjustments using my Mac.  This is no problem and is to be expected but take note of the warning below…

IMPORTANT WARNING!

The app is native to the iPhone and uses its own database, not the online one that actually powers your blog.  This means the iPhone does not know if you update a post on your computer.  If you then decide to edit the post on your iPhone in future you are in effect editing an old copy of the post…  I learnt this the hard way when I edited the post on my Mac and then decided to add additional screenshots via the iPhone.  I didn’t notice that the iPhone was unaware of the changes I had made via the Mac, and when I added my screenshots and posted my update, all the layout changes I had made via the Mac were lost.  Thankfully I was able to use the revision feature in Wordpress 2.6 to revert to the previous revision.  I then hit the refresh page on the iPhone app, and updated the correct version of this post.  Incidentally, I can’t spot a way to access the revisions via the iPhone app.

Bottom line:  Make sure you hit that refresh button in the posts list before you edit any of your entries…

Screenshots

The “Home” screen:

The “About” screen

The first step is to add your blog, just fill in the appropriate info:

Your blog will then appear in the list on the “Home” screen

Tapping on a blog shows the posts and the important refresh button in the lower left:

Tap the icon in the lower right to create a new post or tap on an existing post to edit:

Add photos easily (note, they get added to the end of your post):

Selecting a post category is straightforward:

As is adding a new category:

The post status can easily be set between draft or published etc

The post date and time can be adjusted:

The post settings screen doesn’t contain much, mainly the opportunity to password protect the post:

The preview screen is very basic as it ignores your CSS:

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