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Hot New Official Wordpress Blogging Application for BlackBerry Smartphones Released In Beta Form!

by Bla1ze on 7 Jul 2009 10:26 AM
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Hmm, did we stoke some fires with yesterday's Tumblr post? Maybe. In any event, the good folks from Automattic have kept good on their promise of a Wordpress application on BlackBerry devices much as they have on the iPhone platform. Released today in its beta form, the appplication looks great. The UI is nice and smooth and easy to configure and in no time I have Videos4BlackBerry added to the services and am currently able to admin all functions direct from my Bold, right down to approving and unapproving comments.

Some time is still needed for the application to be all the way polished but even now it looks, works and feels great on my device. Many good things look to be coming from this application and truth be told it is on par with the iPhone application when it comes to functionality, but here's to hoping Automattic bumps it up to make it an even better client then that of the one on the iPhone. More screen shots after the jump folks.

 

Hot New Wordpress Blogging Application Released In Beta Form!

Wordpress On BlackBerry!

Wordpress On BlackBerry!

Wordpress On BlackBerry!

 

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35 Comments

Posted by shaydakiss23 Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 948 days ago

Would Blogger PLEASE hurry up and get an actual app??? Sheesh.

 
 
Posted by MoistDef Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 948 days ago

I second that notion. I want a Blogger app!!! #iwant

 
 
Posted by louiedawg Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 948 days ago

Anybody else having problems with this app? I downloaded and now get errors on everything. Startup, saving settings, and adding a blog. Looks like it'll be decent if the darn thing will work on my Storm.

 
 
Posted by louiedawg Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 948 days ago

Working now....2nd Battery Pull!!

 
 
Posted by BeLogical Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 948 days ago

when i first installed, it hung my storm. battery pull got it to pulled up the app slowly, finally requesting application permissions. i accepted those and went in, then it was in compatibility mode. i exited, removed compatibility mode, and everything seems to be running great! A+ app!

 
 
Posted by Taubin Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 948 days ago

Looks like a great app, however, I am unable to get it to log into my site. I've verified the user and pass numerous times, but, it keeps giving me an error stating the url, or authentication is incorrect. Anyone else experience this?

And, does it matter if my blog is not the homepage on my site? It's at mysiteurl.com/blog

 
 
Posted by kurrupt_1 Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 948 days ago

It doesn't seem to like the 5.0.0.100 OS on my 8900.

 
 
Posted by wojtas25 Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 948 days ago

Great app, already posted some stuff on my site :)

 
 
Posted by Jrp1969 Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 948 days ago

I've been waiting for this since it was mentioned here. I installed no problems on an 8330. In the process of updating my blog now. So far so good.

 
 
Posted by Izabel.Idris Friday, Nov 20, 2009 812 days ago

Hey guys,

We also have a WordPress App for BlackBerry called Wicked.
Please sign up for the Wicked beta program here and try our app out: http://screamingtoaster.com/?page_id=429

The final release of Wicked is coming out in a few weeks.

If you have any questions, please email me 24/7.
Izabel Idris

 
 
Posted by UKJay43 Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 947 days ago

Not working correctly with Storm 9530 and Hybrid OS 7.1.3 from BB Crackman.

Disabled compatibility mode and no help. Pulled battery 3x and still really quirky.

Now got it to run in landscape but it won't accept my User ID and Password for my Blog. Made sure everything was entered correctly and still no dice!

Feel free to contact me to troubleshoot! musclecouple@gmail.com

 
 
Posted by mkhattab Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 947 days ago

This is a great find but I can't get it to work no matter what I try.

I've played around with all the connection options and I've tried entering my URL as the main blog URL and as the admin page directly but no love.

No matter what I try I get the error that the URL, Username or Password are incorrect but they are all correct!

Any help will be much appreciated

Running a Curve 8900

 
 
Posted by citi Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 947 days ago

I like that it does what it says...after starting the app, then doing a battery pull, it is solid.

 
 
Posted by rynkenzie Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 947 days ago

Same here....says bad username/password.

 
 
Posted by jezzter Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 947 days ago

I had the same problem with bad user name/password/url. In order to fix this, you have to enable xmlrpc in your wordpress installation.
The checkbox is located in settings --> writing.
All good now :-)

 
 
Posted by Billmanvl Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 947 days ago

Good on ya, for pointing that one out!

I love a easy fix like that.

 
 
Posted by nvoll84 Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 947 days ago

dude i love you! thanks for mentioning the xmlrpc thing and where to enable it! i was becoming frustrated to no end with the bad URL, username, or password error! thanks man!

 
 
Posted by Taubin Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 946 days ago

My issue ended up being Bad Behavior blocking me from connecting. That's quite disappointing, as I love that app, and refuse to disable it. I've written an email to the creator of the Bad Behavior app, hopefully, I can get my BB whitelisted.

 
 
Posted by Mazda_Speed Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 947 days ago

Not working on the Storm at all!

 
 
Posted by rmjones101 Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 947 days ago

Works famously for me on my Storm.

Have you enabled your WordPress settings to allow remote blogging? From your wordpress site, Settings -> Writing -> Remote Publishing -> Enable XML-RPC.

 
 
Posted by salanester Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 947 days ago

After listening to that music in the background of the video I'm gonna have to blog about making sweet, sweet love.

 
 
Posted by HardcorePooka Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 947 days ago

Loving it so far. Definitely a nice app. Can't wait to see the "finished" version.

BTW, this is on my Storm and it works like a charm.

 
 
Posted by Duvi Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 947 days ago

First Tumblr and now WordPress. Both I use! Yay!

 
 
Posted by mkhattab Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 947 days ago

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
Works perfectly. This is a brilliant app!

 
 
Posted by Nology Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 947 days ago

Everything on this app is perfect except for adding pics. They show up HUGE on the blog no matter what you set it at.

 
 
Posted by Jrp1969 Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 947 days ago

I posted on my blog this a.m. App. worked great. This is my personal domain. I have a wordpress account I use for testing, and for some reason it won't connect to it. It gives me the bad username url crap everyone else is getting. I took advice from comments and tried to find enable remote blogging, I don't see it. Am I missing something?

 
 
Posted by ckesten Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 947 days ago

when i try to post it just hangs... have to pull battery out...same thing

 
 
Posted by bucky716 Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 947 days ago

Anyone able to get this to run in landscape mode on the Storm? I think this is the first app I've ever had issues with on my storm. Could not get it into landscape and also had troubles scrolling and have since removed it. Maybe I'll try again.

 
 
Posted by citi Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 947 days ago

Sounds like you were running in compatability mode. It defaulted that way for me too on install. Change the setting in options>advanced options>applications>choose the app and disable compatability.

Then restart the app. If it hangs then, which it probably will, pull the battery and when it restarts it will be gold.

 
 
Posted by bucky716 Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 946 days ago

That worked but now I keep getting "Blog response is not correct." I'm guessing it's user error. the xmlrpc thing is enabled.

I've loved my Storm but with these WordPress apps coming out I'm really tempted to get the Tour when it comes out. Trying to type up more than a few sentencest on the Storms keyboard is not always the quickest.

 
 
Posted by Zaakir Abdullah Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 946 days ago

where is "settings" ??????? keep getting the same log in error on my 8900?

 
 
Posted by JeffreyEducator Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 946 days ago

I don't know what happened, but after I download this app is was extremely slow and never really worked properly.

 
 
Posted by raanan Friday, Jul 10, 2009 945 days ago

Hey everyone -- just a heads-up that we are pushing out new betas every day or two. Make sure you are running the latest version if you are having any issues ( currently 0.9.123 ): http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install

If you are still stuck, feel free to post on the community forums: http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/ and check the FAQ: http://blackberry.wordpress.org/faq/. I'll also be checking-in here on this thread as well :)

cheers.

 
 
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