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Grab these top Windows Phone apps to help manage your website

Windows Phone Apps

By Rich Edmonds, Wednesday, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:00 am EDT

Website development is an integral part of the Internet. Web pages you visit (including this very article page) are hosted on web servers, requiring experienced personnel to further build on online experiences. To help web masters and developers achieve this, tools and services are available to monitor traffic and the general wellbeing of properties.

Mobile apps are available on multiple platforms for folk to access and Windows Phone has a limited share of apps. I’ve compiled a short list of some apps you can use effectively to see how websites are performing, with some connecting to Google web master services.

WordPress for Windows Phone updated, contains unknown changes

Windows Phone Apps

By Rich Edmonds, Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 at 1:09 pm EDT

The WordPress team has released an update for its app on Windows Phone. The official WordPress app has been available on the Windows Phone Store for some time, but it's good to see more releases coming out the workshop. So what's new in this latest version? We're not entirely sure. We previously looked at WordPress back in February.

WordPress 2.0 for Windows Phone goes live but doesn’t get a makeover

Windows Phone Apps

By Daniel Rubino, Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:07 pm EST

WordPress, the popular open-source blogging app, has also been bumped to version 2.0 tonight as well. The difference here is unlike Twitter, WordPress did not get a magical alteration.

WordPress for Windows Phone updated, introduces full screen editing

Windows Phone News

By Rich Edmonds, Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:25 am EST

The official app for the Windows Phone platform has been bumped to version 1.9, up from 1.7 that rolled out back in November. We're witnessing some speedy updating from the WordPress team, which is welcomed for consumers who utilise blogs using the free CMS. So what's new in the latest release?

Official WordPress app for Windows Phone bumped to version 1.7

Windows Phone Apps

By Rich Edmonds, Monday, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:43 am EST

It surely has been a while, WordPress. We last covered the blogging app for Windows Phone back in October last year when the official offering hit version 1.4. The WordPress team has since released a number of updates, and as of yesterday we're now at 1.7.

Enabling bloggers who own Windows Phones to connect, manage and create articles on WordPress installations, the app is a must-have for those who require convenient access to their websites. So what's new?

Official WordPress app updated to fix previous bug

By Seth Brodeur, Thursday, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:02 pm EDT

If you will recall, the official WordPress app for WP7 was updated to version 1.3 to support Mango, but was quickly pulled from the Marketplace due to a bug that the developers found. WordPress has made its way to version 1.4, which has resolved the issue and still also sports the Mango support of its predecessor. Along with fast-switching, the updated WordPress also has the following new features from 1.3:

"You can now share pictures directly from your photo album to a new post in the app, as well as pin your blog to the start screen for quick access."

You can download WordPress 1.4 here. Happy blogging!

Official WordPress app for Windows Phone hits v1.3 for Mango but disappears from Marketplace?

Windows Phone Apps

By Daniel Rubino, Saturday, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:25 am EDT

The official WordPress app for our phones has also got a Mango makeover with v1.3. Considering how huge WordPress is to the blogosphere, it's always great to see a well done official app out there for our users. The app hit v1.2 only in August, where it finally received landscape support. Now v1.3 looks to extend that by adding some Mango features. Besides the automatic fast-app switching, users can look forward to these new additions:

"Now with Mango support! You can now share pictures directly from your photo album to a new post in the app, as well as pin your blog to the start screen for quick access."

Sounds good to us. Now we have received a complaint from reader ron_from_RIFAS that it looks like the app has been pulled from the Marketplace. And indeed, if you search for the app, you'll be hard pressed to find it. Even the WP7Applist site has its red-banner warning that this app is not available. But we assure you it is there and you can download and install it just fine. Reason? It's listed as "Private" in the Web Marketplace. Why? We have no idea...

Update: Evidently the developer, in comments, lets us know that there's a bug in v1.3 so to hold off until a fix is released: "It's marked private because we found a large bug in the app and wanted to submit a fix for it before publishing. ...The new one should be out in a few days pending certification from Microsoft."

Windows Phone Starter Kit for WordPress

Windows Phone News

By Rich Edmonds, Monday, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:48 am EDT

This is a little something for bloggers and web developers who use WordPress as a CMS. Should you not have the necessary knowledge and experience to confidently develop an app to compliment your website, fear not as help is at hand with the Windows Phone Starter Kit for WordPress.

It's a simple package that includes a skeleton app, which only requires you to alter one line of code and insert the blog URL, and a plugin .zip that is to be uploaded and installed on the website. Full instructions located below:

App:

Open the MainPage.xaml.cs file in Visual Studio
Update the siteURL parameter to the location of your WordPress blog

WordPress:

Log into your WordPress blog using an account that has administrative access
Click on the "Plugins" link from the navigation bar on the Dashboard
Click on the "Add New" button on the Plugins page
Select the "Upload" link from those choices presented on the Plugins page
Click the browse button and navigate to the location of the WPSKPlugin.zip (usually \WordPressPlugin\WPSKPlugin.zip
Click the "Install Now" button to perform the upload.

Head on over to the MSDN Code project page for the Windows Phone Starter Kit below for more details and download links.

Source: MSDN, via: Nanapho.jp

WordPress for Windows Phone v1.2 now available

Windows Phone Apps

By Rich Edmonds, Wednesday, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:11 pm EDT

The official WordPress for Windows Phone app has been updated to version 1.2, which brings landscape editing/posting and some UI improvements. The panorama view has been updated to present more information on screen to tie in better with Metro UI standards. Also included in the update are the following language translations: French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Some under-the-hood changes:

Better support for post ping backs in the comment view.
Fixed comment submission date from being changed when moderating.
Preview now works for drafts, scheduled and private posts/pages.
Prompt added if the back button is accidentally tapped while creating a post.

Read up more over at the WordPress development blog.

Official WordPress app is now live in the Marketplace for WP7

By Daniel Rubino, Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:06 pm EST

For those mo-bloggers out there, you'll be pleased to know that WordPress has gone ahead and released a full-fledged mobile client for Windows Phone, all for free of course. The app allows you to write offline, moderate comments, publish and view your site's stats all from your phone.

WordPress is the largest blogging platform out there today, so having it on board Windows Phone is quite welcomed, especially since the choices up to now have not been that stellar (although BloghuB looks pretty good too). It's even more important since Microsoft closed down Live Spaces and managed to port their users over to WordPress in an official partnership between the two mega companies. Last we checked, about one million have made the transition so far.

You can grab the app right here (opens Zune).

Thanks, Anum (Redmond Pie), for the tip