The WordPress app for iPad has been updated this week, to Version 3.4. The big new feature in this update is push notifications – ‘for everything happening on your blog’.

Here’s the full change list for this update:

New: Notifications for WordPress.com blogs and self-hosted with the Jetpack plugin.
★ Get Push Notifications for everything happening on your blog.
★ View, moderate, and reply to Comments from one screen – independent of blog.
★ View comment threads and easily access the original post.
★ Know about new Notifications instantly regardless of where you are in the app.
★ Set Push Notification settings for each notification type, and select which blogs you want to receive notifications on in the Settings panel.
★ WordPress.com blogs: get notifications about Likes, Reblogs, Follows, and Badges/Stats Highlights.
This release also includes:
• Numerous stability fixes.

I’ve never been the biggest fan of the WordPress iOS app, but I have noticed that it is making significant improvements in its last few updates. I still don’t like it at all for creating posts in, but it is becoming a useful tool for comments moderation and other similar blog management sort of tasks.

Here’s an App Store link for WordPress; it’s a free app and a universal app designed for both iPad and iPhone.