WordPress for iOS 2.8 isn’t most stable or the most elegant blogging app like BlogPress. But, it has been making great strides since version 2.6 in terms of stability, listening to user feedback and adding useful features.
WordPress for iOS 2.8 focusses on improving stability but also has added 2 awesome features.
Quick Photo
If you are a photo blogger and love to take snaps with your iPhone and post it on your WordPress blog, you will love this Quick Photo feature.
The “Quick Photo” button is a big step towards the next-generation WordPress app. It’s the first feature that’saction-centric, meaning that instead of picking the blog, and then selecting what you want to do with it, you pick your action first. The thinking is that an app should be all about getting in and out quickly, performing a specific task.
As you launch the app, you’ll notice there’s now a button in the bottom of your blogs list. Tap it to launch the camera and take a picture, when you’re satisfied you can add a title or a description (if you want, both are optional), and boom — you’re done! The function remembers the last blog you posted a Quick Photo to and will use that for future posts as well.
Quick Photo basically lets you launch the app, take a photo and post it with whatever text you want with it. Lovely!
iPhone only for now.
WordPress Stats
This is another welcome feature for those addicted to checking the traffic numbers provided by WordPress.com Stats plugin. Now, you can check your blog traffic right from your iPhone.
I still use the Ego iPhone app to get an overall idea of all my stats in one place – Twitter followers, page views, rss feed reader count, etc for multiple blogs in one app.
WordPress 2.8 app also adds localization so it can be translated to multiple languages.
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