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I’ve been playing around with the WordPress app on the iPhone and it’s very nice.  The application is very simple but allows for quite a good bit of functionality.  If your not familiar with WordPress its one of the more popular pieces of blogging software that runs on web servers to allow publishing blogs.

Initially you configure your blog or blogs by entering their web address and your username/password for access.  The application will go out and attach to your blog and if you got your settings correctly entered it will set up your site.  This will setup the blog as an item on the application start page.  Each time you launch the WordPress application you will be presented with the main page that contains links into manage each of your configured blogs.

If you enter into the link to manage a particular blog you will be presented with a listing of posts that are on the blog as well as a folder that links into any local drafts.  Local drafts are posts that you have been working on that you have saved only on your iPhone.  These are not published to your blog in any form.  To begin writing a post you can select the edit box which is the small square with the pencil in it in the lower right corner of the posts list.  Once you select this you’ll be presented with the “write” window that will allow you to title your post as well as add tags/categories and display its current status which indicates if its saved locally or has been published to the server as a draft or live post.

The editing is pretty basic but you can upload pictures into your post from within the application which is nice.  For this post I wrote the whole thing on the iPhone and then published it as a draft to the blog and did the final formatting on the site.  All of the pictures I took as screenshots on the phone and uploaded them through the WordPress app along with the post so when I went online I went directly into the draft and all of my resources for the post were here to work with.

One thing I did notice is once I posted a draft if I tried to edit it again on the iPhone it was raw html instead of a rich text mode so thats something to keep in mind it may be better to keep a draft saved locally until your mostly done with it because it gets messier if you post it as an online draft then try to edit it again on the iPhone.

All in all it’s a nice application and you cant beat the price “Free”!