Patrick Cushing wrote a review of the Apple Appstore the other day, and he included some tidbits about his experience using Wordpress’s iPhone RPC client, which allows you to post blog entries and manage a Wordpress blog from your iPhone. Here’s how he summarizes his experience:

As for the WordPress iPhone application — not bad. I don’t think I’ll write many more like this because this has taken forever, but I love that I can if I want to. It’s a bit of a pain without WYSIWYG, and typing HTML on a keyboard is tedious. It just means I would have to keep basic formatting with these posts.

I totally agree with Patrick, particularly on the WYSIWYG point. I didn’t even bother posting as soon as I noticed the editor was HTML, not WYSIWYG.  Anyway, check out the rest of Patrick’s post.

Tags: appstore, software, wordpress

Getting a blog up and running on Wordpress is pretty easy.  And there are even templates that will make it iPhone-friendly.  But it’s a real trick to get your blog to be both desktop-friendly AND iPhone-friendly.  That’s why we’re glad ContentRobot came up with a plug-in/theme combination that does exactly that.  Your desktop visitors see your regular theme, and your iPhone visitors see an iPhone-formatted page. Too cool.

With a slight bit of hacking, you can display the iPhone-formatted version on any mobile browser, and the result looks tons better on my Nokia N95 than the a standard, bulky desktop theme. Hack away!

Tags: iphone, safari, software, wordpress

Wordpress’s dev team has put the finishing touches on an iPhone-native web client for Wordpress, which gives you the ability to pen Wordpress posts while on the go. Whether you use hosted (wordpress.com) or non-hosted Wordpress, the utility works great.  Think of Windows Live Writer with a built-in camera and then stick it in your iPhone.  Handy stuff.  You can grab it from the Appstore or check it out here.

Tags: appstore, blogging, iphone, software, wordpress