We’re very happy to announce that version 1.5 of WordPress for Windows Phone is now available. This update focuses on speed and reliability – here’s what’s changed:
- Stats: We’ve moved the stats section to its own page in the app which greatly improved the loading time for the blog panorama. While we were at it we fixed some bugs and improved the styling of the charts. The result is a much smoother experience for keeping up with your site’s stats. Just tap the new stats button in the actions pane to view your stats.
- Post scheduling: The ability to schedule posts was a missing piece in the app. Now you can easily set a future publish date for your posts right from the app.
- Comments: The comments list has been updated and now features a simple way to select multiple comments for bulk moderation.
- Infinite scrolling: Your posts, pages, and comments now keep loading as you scroll down the list. No need to tap an extra button, it’s quick and easy.
- Media uploading: The uploading reliability has been greatly improved. Now the app uploads your media in bite-size chunks, and automatically retries if you lose your connection. This has been tested a great deal and works well in most everyday situations.
In addition to the improvements and bug fixes, version 1.5 of WordPress for Windows Phone has also seen some minor UI enhancements and updates, as well as a number of crash fixes. All in all, we’re very happy with this release, which should make it even easier for you to blog from that fancy Windows Phone of yours.
We’re not resting just yet though. What would you like to see added to or improved on in the app? Comment on this post or shout out on Twitter and let us know your thoughts.
Huge thanks to everyone involved in this release: Dan Roundhill, Danilo Ercoli, Robert Collins, Max Cutler.
CrisRowlands — February 2nd, 2012 at 12:21 pm
Big thanks go out to everyone involved
Looking forward to using it
Cris
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Cheryl Lucia — February 2nd, 2012 at 1:07 pm
WordPress has definitely come a long way from when it was just a simple blogging platform!!! Remember those days, now it’s the leading CMS used for websites and it has a newly innovated mobile app. I just recently wrote an article on my blog on mobile marketing so this is just the kind of news I am looking for. Mobile marketing is the future, I’m just thankful that WordPress is not letting up and staying current with the trends. I have two WordPress sites myself and am an avid promoter.
Nigerian Blogger — February 2nd, 2012 at 6:28 pm
This is awesome… I can’t wait to give it a whirl on Windows Phone 7.
drokkon — February 3rd, 2012 at 12:06 am
Thank you thank you thank you! Can’t wait to start using it, and thanks for not ignoring the very excellent Windows Phone OS!
Foldon — February 3rd, 2012 at 9:17 pm
Good timing! I got my Nokia Lumia 800 yesterday and will now give it a try.
phendrena — February 4th, 2012 at 1:00 am
As a casual tool to do basic stuff its great.
But it does suffer from quite a bad UI when your editing a post. Its quite bulky and cumbersome. It is not user friendly at all and needs a major rethink imo. Scrolling through a post in the composition window is hit and miss and it just doesn’t handle large posts.
Its nice to see the improvements that have been made but there is a way to go yet before the tool reaches potential.