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WordPress For Symbian Now In Testing

By The Guru on February 16, 2010

It’s been a long time coming, but we finally have an official WordPress client for our Symbian-powered smartphones! The WordPress for Nokia app is still an early alpha and has plenty of bugs, but it works, for the most part.

WordPress for Nokia is built on QT v4.6 currently, and is also available for Maemo 5 powered devices like the Nokia N900.
Currently you can manage your comments, posts, and pages, as well as create new posts right from your phone. As you can see, you can also add photos to posts, though there are no advanced functions such as being able to align images. You’re also stuck with a raw HTML editor for composing your posts, which makes entering links a real hassle.

However, I have no doubt that the developers will continue to improve the stability and features along the way. Yo can keep up with the updates yourself at http://dev.nokia.wordpress.org.

Are you a mobile blogger? What features would you like to see implemented in WordPress for Nokia?

This post was written entirely on my N97 Mini – the only desktop editing I did was to make the link above clickable.

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  • http://twitter.com/mobileminmag Antoine RJ Wright

    Seems like the MoPress widget that I just downloaded from the Ovi Store yesterday. Hope that WordPress takes of the advise that the Mameo WordPy/MaStory author was given and makes sure to lead through screens instead of packing everything on links and tabs. Makes for cleaner UI, and much easier posting from mobile devices.

  • http://www.rickycadden.com Ricky Cadden

    I don't know that I agree fully, to be honest. I don't mind having a single screen, but they need to make some changes based on the input methods that phones are limited to. Typing in raw html on *any* phone is a pain in the butt – we need some simple WYSIWYG features, like bold, italic, links, etc.

    I would also like to see support for custom fields and such, though I really can't say I expect to see that (as everyone's would be different due to various plugins).

  • http://twitter.com/mobileminmag Antoine RJ Wright

    I agree that the text/HTML formatting needs to be addressed, MaStory has that issue – I believe that for both platforms that its got something to do with the text area/canvas support. But yea, that part would be nice to have.

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