I’m finding it a little tedious to edit blog posts on the iPad. I have two posting methods: (1) the web interface via Safari, and (2) the WordPress iPad app. Both are difficult.

The web interface isn’t designed with the iPad in mind. It’s difficult to insert references to photos. I uploaded a bunch of photos to the blog, and am trying to insert those photos into a blog post. The media dialog, however, is unnavigable on the iPad, using some javascript dialog, and it does not scroll, so,you can only see the top few photos, and can’t insert any of them. It looks like I’ll be inserting HTML by hand until I can figure out some other approach.

The WordPress app is a real trainwreck. It’s OK only for editing raw text, with the major caveat that it eats apostrophes and HTML tags. “I’ve” gets converted to “Ive”, and “<b>hi</b>” “bhi/b”. Lovely. And it has no support for references to images in the media library.

I’m looking for solutions. Forgive me if posts go up without images and I add the images later.