When I met Matt Mullenweg recently at WordCamp NYC (WordPress WordCamp NYC part 1) I told him that WordPress blogging had helped sell me on the idea of switching over from TMobile to ATT because I now have the capacity to do a decent post, using my mobile device.
However, the first version of WordPress for the iPhone is somewhat limited in what it does - there’s no formatting controls and you can only place photos at the bottom of a post - plus you can’t put any hyperlinks in because the iPhone OS does not have that capability currently.
But I told Matt Mullenwag (who was on his way to a business meeting that concluded with the purchase of Polldaddy by Automatic, Matt’s company) that WordPress ought to make improving the iPhone application a priority, and he was receptive and suggested one might be upcoming soon.
However, I wish I told him to do one more thing - and I’m using this post to test it out - currently the Wordpress appication on the iPhone does not capture blog posts that are in draft mode - it will, however, capture those that are published.
In lieu of having that functionality - and preparing for Emetrics DC, I decided to prepare many of my posts for sessions I plan to attend beforehand, putting in the marketing notes, tags, hyperlinks, all from my laptop, then publishing my post for one minute, getting the data to sync on the WordPress application, then unpublishing my post before Google Reader or Google Alerts can pick it up. Most of the time I was successful but one - darn - my unfinished post was picked up by Google because I must have published it at an interval when Google was crawling my site.
So the first part worked - I could get my post, done on my laptop, transferred over to my iPhone Wordpress application - but …… I had not tested the post to see, if, on the iPhone, I could update the post, and then publish it from the iPhone.
So that’s what I’m going to try to do now - and I’ll write a line or two below this one - this will be proof of concept that my “workaround” for WordPress and the iPhone actually did work.
Ok, I am writing this text from my 3G IPhone and here’s the steps I took.
1. Write the parts of a post ahead of time on laptop or desktop, then publish it.
2. Immediately go to IPhone Wordpress app, sync posts with blog, the blog post should appear in the local draft listings of posts ( however the post has a status of “published” at this point.
3. Unpublish the post from the laptop or desktop.
4. Edit post from IPhone ( this step is what I did just now, here).
5. Finish blip post on IPhone then publish it.
Worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No problemo. I just finished the post back on my laptop, because I wanted to indent - everything worked perfectly.
So …. we now have a way to prepare a post, for say .. a conference session, beforehand, with a bunch of links and formatting - send it over to the iPhone - take your notes and finish the post without dragging around a laptop!!!
Thanks Matt Mullenweg for creating this application for the iPhone - and Matt, feel free to improve it, when you get around to it, so I don’t have to publish and unpublish my posts to get them over to the iPhone.
And this last line, I’m writing, again, from my iPhone.
WordPress Rocks -Especially on my 3G IPhone!
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