A couple days ago Automattic(the company behind the immensely sucessfull blogging platform WordPress) released WordPress for iPhone version 2. The many new features and enchancements include:
A new, more efficient user interface that makes it faster to switch between comments, posts, and pages.
Various user interface refinements and bug fixes
New Comments interface, with Gravatars and the author URL shown in the comment list
Passwords are now stored in the keychain
Posts are now automatically saved and restored if network connection is lost during publishing
Added persistence, so the app re-opens in the blog you last used
Added an interface for manually entering the XMLRPC endpoint for non-standard setups
Fixed rotation-related visual glitches
Fixed errors where malformed XML prevented access to XMLRPC endpoint
Fixed edge case where local drafts were sometimes not saved
Fixed the order of photos so that they’re displayed in the order they’re uploaded/
Thanks go to Weblog Tools Collection for the features list.
I wrote this post with it and overall I’d say it’s a modest improvement. Kinda like the original Tweetie and Tweetie 2.The similarity continues as WordPress for iPhone 2 is a seperate app and not a direct upgrade. And I had major issues with copying and pasting a link into the link creator.
My final opinion is that it’s better the the original WordPress for iPhone but it still needs a lot of help.