So, WordPress released their app for the iPhone and it seems cool enough. It’s very basic, however–it doesn’t let you do any real admin, sadly. Like no plugin tweaking, no theme editing, and, worst of all, no way to troubleshoot if something goes wrong inside of WP.

Like that ever happens! :P

Of course, the other issue is how the WP app works with the iPhone itself. Just in the process of writing the above I’ve learned the following:

1) The WP app needs a landscape mode badly. Typing with one hand gets really tedious really quickly and, sadly, my thumbs are too big to work together (accurately) in portrait mode.

2) The iPhone’s incessant need to correct what it determines to be spelling errors makes blogging with HTML an annoying process. I tried to add emphasis tags and it kept replacing them with the word “email”. Sure, I can tap the insanely tiny “x” when the “correct” word pops up but I’d rather not have to do that EVERY time.

Of course, if there was a way to turn OFF the auto-correct feature you can bet I’d do that over expecting the WP guys to come up with a solution.

3) No tactile keys makes typing really hard, even with “click” sounds on. I find that I type MUCH slower on my iPhone than I did on my Sidekick 3’s pfysical qwerty. Also, having to go to different keyboards for certain (very) common keys is a serious drag.

4) No caps lock. No web-rant is complete without a sentence or two typed in all caps. How else are people to know that I’m yelling at them?

5) If you’re like me, you make mistakes. Like, just a moment ago, I was proof reading this post, realized I needed to add something to part of a sentence to better make a point but ended up adding it to the wrong part of the sentence. I then had to backspace out the entire addition and retype it again elsewhere thanks to NO DAMN CUT AND PASTE. (That last bit was really annoying to type without a caps lock, BTW.)

So, while it’s obvious blogging on your WP blog is possible through their official app (I’m doing it right now), I don’t think it is very easy or fun currently. Much of that is Apple’s fault not the WP guys, but I think the WP guys could do a few things to make WP-blogging more fun and easier to do.

Good first try, though, and with the WP guys you know there will definitely be updates. Hell, they probably put one out while I was typing this. :P