For some time now I have been blogging most of my posts from the iPhone using the WordPress application for the iPhone, whilst doing some of the more difficult posts on the PC.
Since switching to the iPad I have now switched permanently to posting on the iPad, but its been a really rough ride with the WordPress app for the iPad. The problem is it’s extremely buggy, crashes a lot, loses your posts and isn’t a dream to work with, well not yet. WordPress are aware of these problems and are trying to address them, but I had two options available. Give up blogging on the iPad (which isn’t really an option) or find another app that will work better than the WordPress app. For as long as I can remember I have looked and looked again at Blogpress for the iPhone, and after looking to see what other apps are available for the iPad, decided to finally purchase Blogpress. All I can say is WOW! It does everything I need it to do, works in a WYSIWYG interface, allows you to connect to WordPress and other blogging platforms like Blogger, allows you to upload pictures, resize them, format them and use all of the additional features i am accustomed to. I usually prefer an app that allows for a WYSIWYG interface whilst being able to jump into the HTML code and manually tweak posts. With Blogpress it doesn’t do the HTML part, but you really don’t need it as it works correctly out of the box.
Blogpress you have a great and wonderful app for the iPad that simply works and is very user friendly. WordPress, you really do need to take a look at the Blogpress app, its a truly great experience for blogging!
There are some things that Blogpress won’t do, like creating new categories for your posts, previewing a post, but at least the application works and it hasn’t once crashed on me, where as with the WordPress app I would get about 3x crashes whilst creating a single post.
I really want an IPAD.
By: Buff on June 15, 2010
at 9:18 pm
I have the app, but don’t see any way to type in wysiwyg. Am I missing something?
By: Ryan Ward on June 17, 2010
at 4:36 am
WYSIWYG from the point of view that whatever you type appears that way. It doesn’t show you a HTML editor so you don’t have to code in HTML to get the post to appear correctly, but it doesn’t have a full WYSIWYG interface like the ability to bold and underline text etc.
By: Dave Burrows on June 17, 2010
at 6:20 am
I’ll have to play around with it some more later today and see if I can get something to work. Both apps seemed to do the same things at first glance so I used the WP instead.
By: Ryan Ward on June 17, 2010
at 1:14 pm
For me on the iPad I find the WordPress app just crashes far too often for my liking.
By: Dave Burrows on June 17, 2010
at 1:15 pm
I need some help! I use blogpress to post to my blog exclusively. I’ve changed my account password as we should from time to time and now I can’t post from my iPad on blogpress. It won’t let me update my password. It only allows adding a new account. And helpful direction I’ll me appreciated. I’ll get an e-mail if you respond to this post.
By: HLT on August 10, 2010
at 11:18 pm
Hi,
Unfortunately I haven’t hit into this problem with Blogpress, have you tried to delete your site in Blogpress and try to recreate it again? In theory that should force to update the password.
Thanks
Dave
By: Dave Burrows on August 12, 2010
at 6:17 am
Dave- downloaded the BlogPress app on my iPad and having problems logging into my WordPress account for the first time. Any suggestions on why the login keeps failing?
By: Kate on September 27, 2010
at 5:07 am
Are you using wordpress.com or a self hosted wordpress blog? It always has worked for me on wordpress.com
By: Dave Burrows on September 27, 2010
at 11:40 am