I was lucky enough to get my hands on the pre-release builds of the WordPress for iPhone (so I could make the screencast of it that’s been doing the rounds), but was still blown away when I got to finally install it on my iPhone proper, rather than on a desktop simulation.
I think there’s plenty of potential for editing existing posts, and knocking out longer form content on the move using the app. But with sausage-sized fingers like mine and the hilarious predictive text of the iPhone interface, it feels better suited to a different blogging style, something more Tumblr like.
So I thought I’d set up a little experiment with one of my dormant domain names, Jolt++, to see about adding a different, more shot-from-the-hip arrow to my bow, authored on the run from the iPhone and with the WordPress app.
My JoltStream
I had a good look around and found that there are quite a few decent Tumblog style themes for WordPress these days (there are six here to get you started), but in the end settled on the minimalist charms of Typographic thanks to its clean look and ease of posting.
It automatically formats content depending on the categories you assign it to, such as quotes, conversations, videos and so on - much like Tumblr, which makes it a nice lightweight tool that gets out my way and lets me get on with my micro-posting out on the streets.
So if you really have too much time on your hands - or a good BS filter on your feed reader - feel free to add Jolt++ to your feeds and see what happens when iPhone meets world via WP.