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This is my first post written via my iPhone. More accurately, it’s my first post ‘started’ on the iPhone. I still don’t have enough patience or facility with the iPhone keyboard to create a text intensive post that way.

When Steve Jobs featured a Typepad interface App during the Apps store segment of the iPhone 3G introduction I knew that a WordPress app would be imminent. And so it was that, on July 22, Automattic Inc. released WordPress for iPhone. True to the WordPress mission the application is Free and Open-Source; meaning that anyone can contribute to the development of this app.

Having a lot of eyeballs vetting the App is probably a good idea because there are some problems. I am currently running WordPress 2.51 and, although WordPress is encouraging everyone to upgrade to WordPress 2.6, I think I’ll wait a little while.

My mother also has a WordPress blog and a new iPhone 3G. When I visited the other day I was anxious to show her the WordPress App. She was still running WordPress 2.1 so I had to update her blog to WordPress 2.6. Some of the reviews on the App store had complained that there was trouble with the WordPress app on 2.6. Sure enough, my mom was unable to get the app to run.

Now she’s hoping for the bugs to be worked out of the App so she can post while she’s in Japan. Her plane is in the air as we speak as are my plans to upgrade to WordPress 2.6 and, potentially, lose my iPhone functionality.