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I’m still trying to find the perfect tool for running\u00a0 Wap Review using just a mobile phone. My requirements are pretty basic, I just want to be able to create and edit posts and edit and moderate comments.\u00a0 With posts I need to be able to enter and edit the body of the post and I’d like to be able assign\u00a0 the category, enter tags and an excerpt.\u00a0\u00a0 For comments I need to be able edit them to remove phone numbers and email addresses for the protection of clueless commentators and\u00a0 to clean up the URL field where people tend to put all kinds invalid or inappropriate junk. \u00a0 I’d also like something web based so that I can use it with the N95, BlackBerry or a tethered Zaurus C860.<\/p>\n

It bugs me that I used to be able to do all these things with just the regular WordPress Dashboard and Opera Mini or my Zaurus’ Opera 7.25 browser.\u00a0 Then in WP 2.7, WordPress went all AJAXy and pretty much broke the dashboard in every mobile browser I’ve tried including Safari on the iPhone.<\/p>\n

I’m currently using the combination of the S60 application WordMobi and a WordPress plugin called WP-T-WAP that I wrote about<\/a> recently.\u00a0 They work but I still don’t have all the functionality I used to have with WordPress 2.5.<\/p>\n

WordMobi has a nice post editor and supports image uploading\u00a0 but limits me to using my N95 and doesn’t allow me to enter tags or an excerpt.\u00a0 In fact if I edit a post that has tags with WordMobi the tags get deleted which is a bit annoying.\u00a0 WordMobi is also unusable for content moderation because it doesn’t “see” all the comments that are awaiting moderation.<\/p>\n

WAP-T-Wap\u00a0\u00a0 supports tags and categories but not excerpts.\u00a0 I like to enter a, hopefully catchy, excerpt on my posts because the excerpt is displayed by some\u00a0 RSS Readers and is used by a plugin ( All in One SEO Pack) which uses it as the meta description header tag where it’s picked up by Google. WP-T-Wap doesn’t allow me to edit comments either, just approve, delete or mark\u00a0 them as spam.<\/p>\n

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Ricky at Symbian-Guru<\/a> recommended I try another\u00a0 WordPress plugin called WPhone<\/a>. It appears very full featured, with support for enabling and disabling plugins, adding and editing categories, adding users and updating user profiles in addition to basic post editing and comment moderation. Ostensibly for the iPhone, WPhone actually has three\u00a0 UIs,\u00a0 one for iPhones, another for handsets with JavaScript support and a third for basic mobile browsers.\u00a0 Check out these screenshots<\/a> which include several of the basic version running on a Motorola V551 with its MIB browser.\u00a0 That’s an impressive feat as the Motorola MIB browser is the least capable of all mobile browsers.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, development of\u00a0 WPhone has essentially stopped with the developers citing work pressures and the fact that there is now an iPhone WordPress app that provides at least some of the functionality of WPhone.\u00a0 I tried running WPhone on WordPress 2.7.1 and sadly it seems broken in a number of key places.\u00a0 Composing and editing posts still works but editing comments doesn’t.\u00a0 When I try to open a comment I get an “Unknown action.” error.\u00a0 The same error occurs when trying to manage plugins. The post editor is virtually identical to the one in WP-T-Wap with support for tags and categories but not excerpts but it shouldn’t be that hard to modify either plugin to add that field.<\/p>\n

WPhone seems like such a great plugin.\u00a0 I can understand the origninal developers simply not having the time to maintain it any longer. As far as I can determine WPhone is\u00a0 free (as in speech) software.\u00a0 I don’t see any licensing or copyright language in the code or documentation so it appears that anyone is free to fix it or extend it.\u00a0 Any volunteers?\u00a0 I’m thinking of poking around in the code myself to see if I can at least fix the comments as that’s the main feature I need.<\/p>\n

Considering all the mobile related\u00a0 WordPress blogs, most using one of the various plugins to create a mobile friendly user\u00a0 version, I really think it’s time for Automattic<\/a> to take mobile seriously and build a mobile support right into WordPress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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