WordPress launched it’s long anticipated WordPress app for the iPhone and iPod Touch this morning. See http://iPhone.wordpress.org for more.
I downloaded to my iPod and am writing this post using it.
The write screen seems quite bare. I don’t yet see how to add links, emphasis or photos to posts. I am sure the functionality is there I just need to look around more.
Ok there was some kind of bug when I was using this first and the bottom Menu bar was missing. I hit the Home button quitting out of the app and opened it again. This notified me that it had recovered a post (good, I thought I would lose it when I quit).
Opening the post now displays the bottom menu so I don’t know what caused the bug or if it will recur.
I still don’t see an easy way to create links in blog posts.
Adding multiple blogs is easy. The hardest part (for me) was being able to remember the passwords!
It is a free download. And they say it will be open source. Not sure where to download the code from yet. Will update this post as soon as I find out.
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I use the Audio Player plugin on a number of sites where I publish podcasts, principally PodLeaders.com
The main reason I use it is to simply populate the posts with a Flash player for any podcasts which I post so people can listen to them onscreen.
However, since upgrading PodLeaders to WordPress to 2.5 the plugin has stopped working 
It simply displays a blank where the Flash player should be.
I tried switching to the Default WordPress theme to see if the problem was theme related but it appears not to be as the problem also happened in that theme.
I downloaded another plugin, called Podcasting which is supposed to work with WordPress 2.5 but that didn’t seem to work either.
Does anyone have any idea where the problem might lie and what I’ll need to do to fix it?
UPDATE: Problem solved. Pete reminded me in the comments of this post to check my folder structure for the Audio Player plugin and sure enough when updating from 1.2.2 to 1.2.3 I had inadvertently uploaded the plugin folder instead of simply the contents of the plugin folder! Fixed now and working once more. Thanks Pete.
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I read Matt’s post about the release of a beta version of WordPress 2.5 this morning with great excitement (sad aren’t I?) and immediately downloaded it.
The screenshots Matt put up look great and I can’t wait to try it out.
However, then I had a rare moment of clarity. Waaaait a sec Tom. Let’s not go breaking the site just yet.
Often blog software updates break plugins and occasionally themes. I certainly had difficulties with this site the last time I upgraded.
Let’s not repeat that again in a hurry.
SO if anyone has tried out WordPress 2.5, how is it looking, what are the gotchas and how soon will a painless upgrade be viable?
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I have had isolated reports that since upgrading this blog to WordPress 2.3 and the theme to K2 RC2, this blog crashes the Safari browser.
I’m running Safari version 3.03 on my Mac and it doesn’t crash but I’m told version 2.04 does crash.
I have tried turning off some of the sidebar widgets but that didn’t fix it (maybe I didn’t turn off the right ones?) and I tried tweaking the theme but to no avail.
If there are any code junkies out there who have any suggestions on why the blog may be suddenly crashing some versions of Safari, I’d love to hear them so I can resolve this.
Thanks.
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Really odd but since I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 the number of subscribers to my blog has roughly halved. Today it is reading 632. It hasn’t been below 1,000 in at least 6 months never mind down at the 600 mark.
I realise that this is likely due to my moving to the newer FeedBurner (FeedSmith) plugin which required me to setup a new feed in FeedBurner but as you can see from the screenshot above, the old feed is reading 0 subscribers!
I put a 301 re-direct on the old feedburner plugin’s feed from this blog but what I am curious about is that the Subscribe address for this blog (tomrafteryit.net/feed) hasn’t changed at all. Do people subscribe directly to the FeedBurner feed address?
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Sean McNamara alerted me via the comments on this blog that my RSS feed was broken (thanks a million Sean). I sorted that out this morning so it should be good again and Google Reader is certainly having no problem seeing my posts now.
So what happened? To be honest, I’m not entirely sure (!) but I think it had more to do with my FeedBurner account than WordPress, per se.
The sequence of events was along the lines of
Then I saw Sean’s comment. Uh oh! I went over to Google Reader and sure enough no posts for the last couple of days were present, d’oh!
I checked back my FeedBurner Plugin config and while all seemed ok, when I checked the “create a FeedBurner feed for …” link, it looks like that the updated plugin created a new feed for the blog.
This meant I had to head over to the FeedBurner site and set up the new feed from scratch – a considerable annoyance. All my stats on my old feed are no longer associated with the new one.
Strictly, this wasn’t a WordPress issue, more of a left-field issue associated with upgrading the FeedBurner plugin. However, the lack of support by WordPress for older plugins is the only reason I upgraded – triggering the loss of my RSS feed.
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