Comments on: 7 Missing Features from the WordPress for iPhone App

By: jeff1

jeff1 — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:24:12 +0000

Unfortunately, though, the iPhone WordPress app only can edit and save local drafts (i.e. those on the iPhone itself). This is probably the biggest deal-breaker for me. I don

By: joan71

joan71 — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:49:37 +0000

Unfortunately, though, the iPhone WordPress app only can
edit and save local drafts (i.e. those on the iPhone itself). This
is probably the biggest deal-breaker for me. I don

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:11:06 +0000

Glad to hear the workaround was helpful. You know, I'm not really sure about the statistics off the top of my head. I've been collecting statistics (voluntary from users), but have not compiled them and evaluated them in quite a while. Maybe it's time to do so once again.

Last time I looked, I just measured popularity of systems, and at that time it was confirmed for me that WordPress was far and away the most popular among my users.

Daniel

By: josephscott

josephscott — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:09:48 +0000

Keep an eye out for updates, we’ve got a number of new features that we want to get in the iPhone app. Some of these require changes to the XML-RPC APIs to make them work, which we are actively engaged in.

By: That Kid from Omaha

That Kid from Omaha — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:19:27 +0000

@kentbrew: Amen. Looks like comment support is coming in 1.2, but the badge on the app's Home screen icon is even nicer.

Better yet (at least for people like me using Disqus to manage blog comments), a Disqus app (or Intense Debate app) alone would be great. I'd use that rather extensively.

By: That Kid from Omaha

That Kid from Omaha — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:02:36 +0000

@Daniel: Funny you mention that... I was just on your site, reading up, and trying the suggestion you posted in your forums: editing the date on server-side Drafts to be waaay in the future.

Turns out, this little trick also works for the iPhone app! Just tried it out, and edited a Draft (which remained in Draft status) from the server on the iPhone. Very cool.

And, by the way, MarsEdit is very impressive. A number of fellow Yahoo! folks use it and have spoken highly of it. I purchased ecto some time back (before you acquired ME from Ranchero), but have downloaded MarsEdit a couple times to see where things are at there... particularly in regards to remote server editing. From what I've seen, I think I'd now choose MarsEdit. (Hint, hint, to anyone reading.)

Just out of curiosity, what percentage of MarsEdit users 1) have more than 1 blog setup, and 2) have different blogging platforms configured? (In other words, do you see a fair number of folks with Blogger, Movable Type, *and* WordPress blogs all configured within the same instance of the MarsEdit app?)

Anyway, thanks for the note here, and keep up the great work on developing Mac apps.

By: kentbrew

kentbrew — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:17:08 +0000

It’d be completely awesome if WP for the iPhone could show the number of comments left to approve for your blog with a tiny red number on the icon, like unread messages in Mail.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:05:08 +0000

With MarsEdit at least, you can set the “Post Status” of a post (from the options panel). If you set it to Draft, it will be sent to WordPress as a “server draft” (not local). Then, if you refresh from another client it shows up in the posts list, can be edited, and resubmitted.

Daniel