Posting via iPad

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There are few things more 21st century than blogging. And there is an app for that! Since WordPress is synonymous with blogging, the iPad and iPhone app is called: WordPress.

It is on the iTunes store, is free, and presumably was written by someone associated with WordPress. This entry was written with the app. Now to see if I can publish my entry…

And of course the application interface offers no obvious means of publishing. None. So you can write a local draft, and it is forever more just that: drafty.

The app has no on-line help, and no manual. The company behind WordPress and the app is Automattic, but the interface isn’t as automatic as you might expect. What to do?

And the answer is: research. The reviewers failed to have an answer (or even note there was a question), but the app Faq has the answer: on the “write” screen, change the Status: entry from “Local Draft” to “Published” and then Save.

Uh, OK. But could it have hurt to have a visible button or toggle?

About Lawrence Charters

I started life as a child.