After suffering through years and years of an incredibly shoddy interface, I’m really happy to announce that the iOS WordPress app is now fun to use. Not only does the app now have a great what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) post editor, but image uploads and previews are now usable as well!

Previous versions of the app required you to enter text in raw HTML. There were a few shortcut buttons to add things like links or rich text tags, but for the most part, I’d write posts in Markdown using other apps (like iA Writer Pro) and paste the raw HTML into WordPress. I’ll actually probably still do that because I like keeping my writing drafts elsewhere, but the new WordPress WYSIWYG editor really just works. For bloggers who prefer to just write and have software take care of formatting, this is awesome.

Another killer part of the update is that images now upload in-line. Every version before this one would append images to the butt end of the post, which meant that I’d have to repeatedly scroll to the bottom of the page when I wanted to attach multiple images. Adding images in-line as I edit my posts just makes sense — and is a much more enjoyable experience.

Finally, I’d like to add that the preview functionality now works properly for me. Instead of seeing a borderless, formless, double-spaced version of the article I’d just written, I can now preview posts just as you readers will see them. 

I’ve enjoyed writing on the iPad for a number of years now, but posting from iOS has always been a pain with the first-party WordPress app. As of two days ago and the release WordPress 4.8, writing and blogging on the iPad just got a whole lot better.

Here’s an App Store link for WordPress; it’s FREE to download and use, so if you’re a blogger, you’ll want to pick this up immediately.