WordPress iPad App

So I just barely posted the last entry from the WordPress iPad app. Why, you ask? Because I couldn’t exactly figure out how to post it after I wrote it. This is a nota bene for future bloggers. Oh, sure, I eventually found it on the FAQs section of WordPress, but posting from within the app is _not_ intuitive.

Basically, writing a blog post in the app looks like composing an e-mail message. There are a few lines up at the top for Title, Tags, Categories, and Status, plus a big blue Save button in the upper right-hand corner. Once you hit Save, you get a “Local Draft.” And then . . . . well the teeth gnashing begins.

The solution is to go back into Edit mode for your post, and touch the “Local Draft” entry on the Status line. Then a menu will unintuitively pop up with a “Published” entry. To post your entry, select Published and again hit Save.

Really, WordPress?! You couldn’t manage a big green Post or Publish button next to the Save button? Figuring how to post one’s blog entry, which is the whole stinking point of your app, is very analogous to touching the subject line of an e-mail message to send it. I know we’re supposed to be all touchy with this new device, but how exactly do you expect us to find this particular easter egg? Spend an hour or two randomly touching all possible points on all possible screens like some sort of handsy idiot savant?

Bad show. You win a big user interface ppphbbbbbfffht! Please consider this a request for some user interface — any user interface — that improves posing within your app.

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