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I am writ­ing this review on my iPhone using the free WordPress app. Athough it cer­tainly will not become my pri­mary post­ing plat­form, I can see me using it more often than I ini­tially thought before down­load­ing it. With this I will be able to post to the blog while sit­ting out on the patio or in my easy chair.

The app has one pri­mary pur­pose, to write and edit posts on a WordPress blog. Allthough I can see my posts, they are viewed in edit mode. It is not a blog reader as such, but with Safari on the iPhone, that would be rather redun­dant. It does not have any way to man­age a site or view com­ments. It really is a one trick pony.

This app allows one to spec­ify cat­e­gories and tag the post. You can save a local draft of your post or save it as a draft on your server as well as save it for review, make pri­vate or pub­lish it. The actual edi­tor is a raw edi­tor, not a wysi­wyg edi­tor but you can insert html to do some of the styling such as this or the link to WordPress ear­lier, pro­vided you know html.

You can also insert pho­tos either from a photo roll on the iPhone or take one right then and there. Unfortunately, the photo gets apended to the end of the post so you may have to clean it up a bit later if you want it else­where. If the iPhone had cut n paste, you could also eas­ily move the image html to where you would want it.

My only com­plaint is a small one. I do wish that it could rotate to the hor­i­zon­tal posi­tion and uti­lize the slightly larger key­board. I am prob­a­bly one of the few peo­ple in the world who can use the iPhone key­board eas­ier than a real key­board on a smart phone. For what­ever rea­son, I find the key­boards on devices such as the Blackberry very hard to use but the iPhone key­board easy. However, I do pre­fer the land­scape posi­tion for typ­ing bet­ter. I keep won­der­ing if Apple still has prob­lems with land­scape mode and text editing.

Like all the iPhone apps, I have expe­ri­enced a few crashes of this app. I still have a hunch that we are going to see an update to the iPhone that will make a lot of these crashes mys­te­ri­ously go away.

This is the right app for peo­ple that want to have the option to post to or edit their blog on the go.