App of week for journalists: WordPress, now with easy comments moderation
V3 of WordPress for iOS has a few handy new features, such as the ability to moderate comments in a simple swipe gesture
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App of the week:
WordPress
Devices:
Cost:
Free
What is it?
WordPress for iOS has new features , including easy comments moderation, push notifications (for WordPress.com) and improved iPad performance.
How is it of use to journalists?
Journalists and bloggers who use WordPress may have dismissed the thought of using it on a phone as it is far less fiddly to write a blog post and add pictures from a desktop.
However, version 3.0 of the iOS app, released last week, has a number of new features worth knowing about.
Perhaps the most useful of these is the ability to moderate comments with a simple swipe gesture. <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-45267" height="375" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43140&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="WP-iPhone1" width="250"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-45268" height="375" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43141&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="WP-iPhone2" width="250">
A post introducing the new features describes the "swipe-to-moderate toolbar".
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If like this Journalism.co.uk editors' blog, which runs on WordPress, you get a high volume of comments - most of them spam - this feature that allows you to easily moderate from your phone is a plus.
Bloggers using WordPress.com-hosted blogs have another new feature for comments: push notifications alerting you when a comment has been posted.
The updated version seems more stable on iPad, with 44 bugs and crashes fixed for this release.
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Sarah Marshall is VP Audience Strategy at Condé Nast. She leads distribution and channel strategy globally. She is also the former technology editor for Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
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