iPhone Updates: Prologue and Mdot
If you’re an iPhone user — and I expect there will be a few more of you on July 11th — these latest updates are for you.
First we’ve updated our mobile interface, which you can reach at m.wordpress.com, to be much more iPhone friendly. It’s still not sexy, but it’s quite snappy and is great for checking your stats, posting an entry, or posting a bookmark on the go.
Second we’ve updated the Prologue theme to be much friendlier to iPhones both for browsing and posting. We now have about half a dozen Prologues that we use internally at Automattic to coordinate our development, support, and even communication with contractors, so I’ve been testing this out pretty heavily over the last few days and it’s quite handy.
I think the iPhone is a pretty exciting new platform, and I think we’ll do more to embrace it in the future. Having such a powerful browser available on the phone really opens up what you can do. I recently picked up a N95 because I’ve heard people compare it favorably to the iPhone, but the web experience is terrible! Once you get used to that touchscreen, it’s hard to go back.
Here are two snapshots of the features in action:
- July 4, 2008
- Mobile
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Can’t keep up with these improvements, Matt. Take a day off to enjoy the Holiday!
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this is a great new to me because I post
from an iPod touch and sometimes is very hard to write
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Nice updates.
A WordPress iTouch app would be terrific.
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damn, that looks sweet!
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Nice! Hopefully we can expect a WordPress Native iPhone application when the iPhone Firmware 2.0 comes out… :cough cough:
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First we had the internets on computers, now we have the internets on phones.
I can’t wait till we have the internets on toasters and microwaves!
Love and kisses from a non-iphone user hehehehe
The scientifically impossible I do right away
The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longer
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Cool. I don’t have an iPhone, but that mobile phone WordPress gadget will come in handy.
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Even though it’s still basic, the general m.wordpress.com interface looks great — was just using my iPhone a lot on my recent vacation for posting things on the fly and while I was able to manage nicely this looks much more nicely designed for that kind of work. Just updated the appropriate page on my phone to reflect it!
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When will it be launched?
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Sorry, my misstake, it has already been launched, saw that now. One feature that would be great is the possebility to edit the posts you make. This would be great and for the record, I love WordPress!
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Sounds fantastic! WordPress just gets better and better!
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Awesome. Here’s hoping you can get an app on the App Store when or after it launches! As simple as what the new mobile page is maybe coupled with offline posting (for those of us stuck with an iPod touch)… that’d be perfect!
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Like it a lot.
Make one for the App Store and have it compatible with online and offline usage for multiple blogs. Keep up the fantastic work!
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And on a non-iPhone related comment, Matt – the themes library for WordPress.com needs more environmentally-focused themes. I’m just saying 🙂
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That’s cool though I’m a kid with no cell phone it’s still cool!
RED OUT
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Hope it also looks good on the Insight. I’ll try it out later today.
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can’t wait!
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woohoo!!
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Cool!!!
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This is very cool! Going to grab my iTouch and I’ll try this out!
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i still having no iphone !
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thanks just this little size tweak is really good!
here’s hoping someday the iphone will get a clipboard and actually be useful for blogging.
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Doesn’t google Android also use WebKit ? So this means even future android phones will be able to enjoy the fruits of the hard work.
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Is that also called ‘mobile’ blogging?
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How about a developed application for the iPhone using the SDK, released (for free) through the AppStore? Has this been looked into?
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Great usage for Prologue.
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Now, waiting for 11th July 😛
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The iPhone can also display VR panoramas, but I’d rather use it as a modem and connect to it via bluetooth from a UMPC with a higher resolution display.
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Cool!
But it would be cooler (and useful) if I had an iPhone! 😦
Any chance that WP will provide its users with iPhones? 😛
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thanks for this update. i hope my iphone works better after this.
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This iPhone update looks awesome to me. As a new iTouch user, and likley devotee of the iPhone any time soon now, this is just what I need. Thanks very much!! Bonza!
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That looks good, but m.wordpress.com still completely confuses my (admittedly crappy) Nokia S40 browser… It constantly re-requests login info… m.facebook.com seems to work fine on the other hand…
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Niiiiice! 🙂
Thanks!
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Been pretty happy even with a click pointer in my Nokia E61i but can’t wait to get my hands on an iPhone if its as the fun experience you say. Of course i trust you but still waiting for iPhone in Asia. Hurry up Apple.
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That’s really sweet. ^^
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This is awesome! I am tapping out this comment on my iPod Touch.
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WOWs!
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good
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WOW!
That’s so cool!!!
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Thanks for this update! It is deffinately an improvement and a start in the right direction! I love what you guys are doing keep up the amazing work!
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Good news
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that’s a greeeeeaaaaaat news !
thanks
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This is great!
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Wierd… the first (well, second) name on that first snapshot is my name… Barry.
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cool that is awesome
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I like it! Hopefully come the 11th July I’ll be among the masses getting to try out these features 🙂
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Well, I am among those who will join the iPhone fold come July 11. I’m moving from Verizon (and a BlackBerry Pearl) to AT&T. I love seeing all the iPhone-specific mobile sites and applications coming to the platform. It’s going to be huge.
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Cool!
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wow so cool.
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great, just get me a iPhone to use all these features 😛
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I really doubt you people are reading our minds somehow through WP maybe ;). Offcourse many of us are waiting for new iPhone to be released. Hope to see WordPress on my own iPhone soon. Let these new innovations coming in.. great work guys.
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thats cool.
but om still waiting for a separate app for iPhone to use wordpress.com 🙂
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Excellent. Once again WordPress comes up trumps! (And Greetings from the UK…Wimbleton has us on the edge of our seats!)
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Thanks guys. Big iPhone user. This will come in handy.
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good job for again more excited again
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heck, the interface looks good enough to me!
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Cool………….! Yeah just cool.
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I really miss it, caz I dont have an iPhone.
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Huge thanks from me!
Ive been using my Iphone to write some of my stories and then emailing them to myself to post, so this will make it easier!
Thanks again!
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Cheers guys. We’re going to be first in the world got get the new iPhone (at painful price plans), but will be looking at using this straight away. Thanks a lot, as said before, it’s almost impossible to keep up with you guys.
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Sweet! 😀 WP keeps getting better… 😉
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great. another reason to want the iphone! =)
cap
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java application for wordpress please, thanks before
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I hope this portends upgrades to the “regular” mobile interface as well.
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nice
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Nicely implemented. I was wondering why it was so difficult to post from the iPhone before. I just tried this one out and it went through wonderfully.
Great work.
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Wow, that’s great! I can’t wait to access my blog on my iPhone.
Dan Durazo
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Got an N95? Try Opera Mini. That might improve your experience with what is easily the best non-touchscreen phone available.
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cool… I,m waiting it
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This is a great news thanks, I’m Excited about the New iPhone coming soon to Indian Market this will definitely help all of us..
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cool!!
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maybe you’ll add a surprise in the appstore ?
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yaa! Good
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hey good new news !!! great////
but is this supports utf8 (unicode)???
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When will it be possible to post pictures from the iPhone? Or from another phone with a camera?
It would be great if it was possible to send an MMS from your mobile phone to your blog. That is possible with Blogger but not with wordpress…
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thanx for keepin up and makin this all fun n ez! hoping, besides posts, it’ll also be easy (possible?) to update pages. I do a daily surf report but it has its own page…. aloha!
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Tried it out today. It works great with the Samsung Insight (on Sprint). So, great phone, great network, great site, all working together. That’s grrrrrrrrreat!
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I’m glad that wordpress.com is keeping up with the trends, but there are so many more of us who don’t have and won’t have iPhones in the near future; I hope the regular m.wordpress.com interface continues to be developed. i ❤ wp.com
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tanx 🙂
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good job!
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This has helped me a lot I blog everyday with my iPhone.
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Damn! I need to get an Iphone, too bad the service is with At&t. They act like your bothering them whenver you ask them a question about the iphone. Damn!
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thats nice..
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Wonderful, Thats great !!!
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Awesome!
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nice work;)
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Thanks! This looks good on my iPhone! And even on my Blackberry!
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