I love my new iPhone 3G. I also really like Wordpress for blogging and content management. So when I heard about a new Wordpress for iPhone app, I quickly downloaded it and was about to do the obligatory “Here’s my first post with my iPhone” post here on dW31.com.

Its a great little app. It easily installs and, like most apps on the iPhone, its very intuitive and easy to use. The problem is I can’t get it to post to the blog. I either get a message about ill-formed XML or it says that the post-id is already taken. Well, its not. I’ve checked.

I have the required version of Wordpress. The support site does say that “Intermittent crashes when saving posts for some users” is a known issue. I can save a post just fine, its publishing that doesn’t work. I guess I’ll just keep trying…

Any suggestions?

UPDATE: I upgraded Wordpress from version 2.5.1 (the minimum required) to version 2.6 and it seems to be working. At least I was able to save a draft post and update this post with my iphone.

Its been quite awhile since I’ve posted or updated the site. This new design has been in development for almost 3 months; I’ve been working on it as much as I can. I decided to go ahead with it, even though it’s still got some kinks to be worked out.

I had been putting my Tweets right into the blog as posts but now that I’ve implemented a sidebar element with a Twitter box, I won’t be doing that anymore. My first priority is to clean up some of the Tweets/posts that don’t look right. The second bug to fix is that some of the posts with embedded videos aren’t formatted correctly. Something happens in Wordpress that messes up the html.

Lastly, the photos section needs some enhancements. I’ll be working on those and including some new photos.

It should be easy to integrate Tumblr with Wordpress. Right? What I have in mind is something like what Alex King has done with Twitter Tools but for Tumblr. I’m posting this with Quick Post. It shouldn’t be too hard to add in access to the Tumblr API.