WordPress Releases Open Souce iPhone App

posted by Scott Beale on Monday, July 21st, 2008

WordPress for iPhone App, which works for both .com and .org, is now available for free in the iPhone Apps Store, plus it is being released as an Open Source app.

Introducing the first Open Source app that lets you write posts, upload photos, and edit your WordPress blog directly from your iPhone or iPod Touch. With support for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.5.1 or higher), users of all experience levels can get going in just seconds.

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this blog post was written by Scott Beale on Monday, July 21st, 2008


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  • July 22nd, 2008 at 12:41 am Richard Peat
    Anyone any idea of availability - is it US App Store only? Isn't being listed in the App Store on my UK iPhone.
  • July 22nd, 2008 at 12:56 am Frankie Warren
    Does anyone have other recommendations for blog editors in the app store or feedback on the wordpress solution?
  • July 22nd, 2008 at 1:22 am Michael Pick
    The WP app is solid (disclosure - I made the screencast and have been playing with the different builds). Not on my in-phone app store yet either, I had to go to iTunes to find it.
  • July 22nd, 2008 at 1:22 am Ole Begemann
    It's good they are going open source. I hope they don't get in trouble with Apple for breaking their NDA (not sure if it forbids open sourcing your code).
  • July 22nd, 2008 at 1:23 am Michael Pick
    Re: other solutions - not many I've seen. Shozu worth a go maybe (seems to support blogger, WP etc.)
  • July 22nd, 2008 at 1:44 am Chris Baskind
    I was getting ready to open a Tumblr blog for mobile use. This will make me rethink the platform. Set up one of my WP 2.6 self-hosted sites on the new mobile app, and it seems to work quite well. Very nice.
  • July 22nd, 2008 at 2:03 am Ian Betteridge
    Is an application which comes wrapped in DRM really "open source"?
  • July 22nd, 2008 at 2:04 am John Spencer
    Theres an app ive been hanging out for...
  • July 22nd, 2008 at 5:51 am Olivier Tharan
    @Richard I was able to install it this morning from the French iTunes Store.
  • July 23rd, 2008 at 1:36 am Ole Begemann
    Ian: good point and probably debatable. I'm no licensing expert. Ironically, since Apple's DRM seems to be incompatible with the GPL, if Wordpress released their source code under the GPL, developers who use that code in their own applications would be required to release theirs under GPL, as well, which might not be possible with Apple's DRM. I'm not certain that's true, though.
  • July 23rd, 2008 at 2:40 am Richard Peat
    @Oliver Got it off the UK store last night. Nice little app.

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