Mobile Apps for WordPress
February has been a great month for mobile blogging on WordPress.com. In just the past week, WordPress apps for Android and BlackBerry made their official debuts, and the iPhone app reached version 2.2. No other blogging service has this kind of app support across these three smartphone platforms — we checked!
Power and control, on the go
While each of these mobile apps is unique, they share a common design philosophy: to give you the ability to easily update and manage your blog from an optimized smartphone user interface. You can easily create new posts, add media, manage comments, and more. There are small tweaks and differences, but the other thing that is shared is the developers are constantly improving the apps based on your feedback, just like we do here on WordPress.com.
100% free and open source
Each app is released free of charge, and the code is open source. The teams welcome suggestions for new features and even code contributions. One of the coolest things about open source development is community involvement. It makes the code better, and it makes the apps rock.
Developers can get involved here:
Android | BlackBerry | iPhone
If you’d like to give feature suggestions, do it here:
Android | BlackBerry | iPhone
Language support
WordPress.com users come from all over the world. The mobile apps here are available in multiple languages but need volunteers to enable even more people to use them. If you’re interested in helping localize these mobile apps, you can get involved by visiting translate.wordpress.org.
Works with WordPress.org blogs
Each of these mobile apps also lets you publish to and manage your self-hosted WordPress.org blogs.
Now with video
VideoPress is now supported in the WordPress for BlackBerry app, and is coming soon for iPhone and Android.
One more thing
We are very excited to share with all of you that in the coming weeks we’ll be opening up a beta test for the official Open Source WordPress for Nokia app. For developers who are interested in getting involved, we just opened-up a dev blog with details, links to the source code and trac tickets, and an early alpha build. We’ll be leveraging the Qt framework which means will be able to support both the S60 and Maemo platforms.
Blog on!
What are you waiting for? Download WordPress for your favorite mobile device and get blogging on WordPress.com.
Posted: Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 4:00 pm. Filed in Mobile.
Tags: android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile, Nokia, WordPress.com
Feb 19th at 1:49 am
No love for Windows Mobile? Come on…larger install base than Android. With my keyboard, I would blog at blazing speed.
The WinMo phones have the power to do all of the wordpress features!
Feb 19th at 2:29 am
When will they have one for the enV touch?
Feb 19th at 6:30 am
Good to see that WordPress has seeped into the smart phone market.
And the words “free” and “open source” are definitely appealing.
Awesome job guys =)
Feb 19th at 10:26 am
Cannot wait to start blogging via my newly acquired blackberry…
Feb 19th at 1:55 pm
Cool but what about Nokia E series?
Feb 19th at 3:02 pm
Is there a way to do this with and htc PRO 2?
Feb 20th at 1:06 am
What about the ability to watch VideoPress videos on the iPhone/iPod Touch? I guess this has to do with Apple not supporting Flash? Is there any solution to this in sight?
Feb 20th at 1:47 am
does it work in the psp app world?
Feb 20th at 4:08 am
I love that you take the time to respond to so many of these comments.
Feb 20th at 6:27 am
Good to hear that. How about apps for Windows Mobile? Please, please, please ….
Feb 20th at 7:36 pm
I will help translated on Indonesian languaged and i already sent my email, please response it
Feb 21st at 1:15 pm
nice …………
Feb 21st at 8:55 pm
I would like to be able to check my stats on the WordPress iPhone app.
Feb 21st at 11:10 pm
everyone is talking “smartphones” but I use the iPod Touch to blog from the “street”, true, I can’t push photos but I can always add those later if I think it;s necessary – I’m looking forward to the new “toy” from Apple, the iPad, THEN I can upload photos as I shoot if I feel the need . . . so keep the great stuff coming
Feb 22nd at 8:26 pm
Quite embarassing that there’s no app for WM-users
Feb 23rd at 2:14 am
Sweet! Now my BB feels like an iPhone!
Thanks guys!
Feb 23rd at 3:47 am
i dont have android, blackberry, or iphone
just se k530i
Feb 23rd at 5:06 am
I know we Windows Mobile users still have the http://m.wordpress.com ability but I, too, would love to see a Windows Mobile application. I’d like to put my new HTC Touch Pro2 to real use. I have email, Facebook, AIM, word processing, Twitter, conference calling, but… No super-easy application to update my WordPress blog with!
Thanks for all of your hard work on the other platforms, but… Well, here’s hoping!
Feb 23rd at 4:02 pm
Add me to the list of WebOS users… Palm Pre/Pixi please!
Feb 23rd at 7:25 pm
And as I guess.
There is no WinMo support…
Naturally.
Feb 24th at 1:38 pm
Yes, what about Symbian? There are a lot of Symbian based Smartphone users here in Germany, actually I think most business oriented users still prefer the Symbian System. Not everyone seeks Appsolution
Feb 25th at 8:35 am
i’ve HTC Touch Diamond…how come? :’(
i can’t get mobile apps 4 WP in my phone
Feb 25th at 10:10 am
what about windows? have just got an htc hd2 and go do lots of things but not wordpress it seems. pls bring out app for us. thanks.
Feb 25th at 3:19 pm
Right now, I’m waitting for an app for Windows Mobile…