Help Us Find a Quality Blogging App

Pete Mortensen ()

I am a sad panda today. As you may or may not have noticed, three quarters of my big post on Apple vanished when I fixed a typo.

Why? Because I was using Blogpress, an iPhone blogging app that I had been enjoying. Here’s the thing: Blogpress has a show-stopping bug. It doesn’t correctly interpret the tags we use for jumps.

Which is pretty inexcusable. But rather than talk about how Blogpress is deeply frustrating and ruined my morning, I thought I’d make this a positive thing. Tell us what the best iPhone blog apps are. Whichever we like best will get some positive coverage, and we might even document the whole bake-off process. Developers with promo codes, bring it on.

Here are the requirements for the app:
– WordPress compatible
– Landscape keyboard
– Can edit in HTML and WYSIWYG
– Recognizes tags
– Handles categories and post management

And a little flair never hurt anyone, either.

One more thing, my parting words to Blogpress:

DON'T MISS
Promo Codes Won’t Be Available to Mac App Store Apps

Help Us Find a Quality Blogging App (Picture from D Squared in Germany)
– Post From Blogpress

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Petemortensen

Pete Mortensen is a design strategist for consulting firm Jump Associates and the co-author of Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, a book and blog that are significantly more interesting than you might initially think. Pete's particular Apple avocations are both around design--interface and industrial. Follow him on Twitter!

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  • http://www.philoking.com Jason Burns

    Classy.

  • http://cultofmac.com Lonnie Lazar

    I hate to say it, but Mars Edit – which I love for blogging from the desktop – also buggers an edited post with a “!–more–” tag in it. I learned the hard way a while back and am grateful that WordPress, at least, caches saved versions of posts. So, all is not lost.

    And, to be honest, unless it was an absolute time-sensitive emergency, I can’t imagine wanting to compose a blog post on my iPhone.

  • http://timheuer.com/blog/ timheuer

    WordPress for iPhone meets all your requirements except the HTML one :-( — which is something I’ve wanted as well. But everything else can be done. http://iphone.wordpress.org (and it is free)

  • Pete Mortensen

    I’ve never once gotten WordPress for iPhone to work with a remotely hosted install — its detection of xml-rpc is abominable, even when entered manually. I’ve also had trouble getting it to even log me into my official WordPress.org account. I wish it were good enough, but I bought Blogpress because WordPress wasn’t meeting my needs.