Itunes app store has finnally got one if the most important blog applications available for download: Wordpress. It is everything I expected and more. This is very cool addition to the iphone apps as we have more and more mobile bloggers emerging.

The application was released last night on the app store and I have just pulled it down on my iPhone and tested, the begining of this post was done completely on the iPhone.  I came back in and added the image.  In testing it allows you to add tags separated by commas, choose multiple categories or create new ones and allows you to create a local draft that stays only on the iphone or save as a draft to your blog.

From the Wordpress site:

Introducing the first Open Source app that lets you write posts, upload photos, and edit your WordPress blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. With support for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.5.1 or higher), users of all experience levels can get going in seconds.

Very cool.

You may or may not notice, but wetwired has been running extremly slow this morning and it was running slow last night.  At times it takes over 1 minute to load the page.  I have done some extensive troubleshooting with firefox, and firebug plugin and after turning off all plugins - defaulting back to the generic theme of wordpress all signs point to DB queries being the problem - meaning my host (godaddy) is having DB issues or performance issues.  Posting a static page works just fine and displays correctly.  I also noticed that they just updated php on the godaddy servers - who knows this could also be a factor.

I did some searching to see if there were wordpress performance posts or insight and there was - but I’ve covered the basis for reasons why it would be slow as notated above.  I can only wait until my host gets back to me.  Incidentally, when you call them you get a phone person who is nice but is not technical.  They then tell you they will escalate the issue and you’ll get an email back in a couple hours.  It’s been a couple hours.. no word.  We’ll see how good their support is.

Things may be up and down as we are updating to the latest version of wordpress. I must say I’m impressed with it and all the new features.

Update: I’ve grabbed a new theme since I have been having so many problems with K2.

I’m now using futurosity which I’ve managed to modify somewhat to suit my needs. I think it will at least do until I am able to do my own custom programing for wordpress and wetwired.

Update #2 I’ve used the hack suggested for the RC4 version of K2 and re-uploaded it and the refresh problem with the site seems to be resolved.  This layout is more conducive to what we want wetwired to look like in the long run.  3-31-08 

Would you believe that we’ve switched from movable type to wordpress?  Yeah who’d of thunk it?  Please bare with us as we work through all the design bugs and changes.  Good news is all the old posts, comments, and tags came over.