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✓ Drafts disappear without warningDon’t ever write direct to your blog, at least on iPad. I’ve had two draft posts suddenly disappear as I was typing. That’s enough for me to want to never return. I don’t post frequently and had forgotten my last bad experience. Now I posted a short entry reminding myself about the problem. Both times I’d been writing for about 20 or 30 minutes. I know others have had the same issue and I learned that while searching for a fix. Be careful out there. AFTER I submitted the above review I received a response that I can’t use. Apple says “Automattic responded to your review of WordPress Automattic "Hi! So sorry to hear about the lost drafts. If you have a moment, please go to "Help & Support" in the app and tap on "Contact us" so we can note which editor you were using during the losses and any details that may help us locate the problem to fix it. BUT I can’t find Help & Support. According to the WP site it’s supposed to be a little ? question mark in the lower left corner but I don’t see that. If there is a Help & Support it would be better if it were findable. Very annoying app, at least on the iPad. Works great on a PC..Version: 8.9
✓ WordpressThis app is awful, for such a dominant brand in blogging I would expect more. It crashes constantly, doesn’t support the format that the Wordpress site now operates on automatically and Ive lost multiple posts to its inability to save a draft when every other website on my phone is updating with internet connectivity. Just a pain, I wouldn’t bother again..Version: 13.0.1
✓ Just gets worse with timeThis app had some glitches I could live with but it seems that with every update it just gets worse..Version: 21.0
✓ Good blogging app, but wobbly of lateI do most of my blogging on a desktop/laptop, but occasionally use the app to write stuff on the go and also tweak/amend published articles - and for that, it’s perfect. The one criticism I have at the moment, which only seems to have been wobbly in the last few weeks, is the analytics. In the app, they’ve been all over the place recently and have frequently been out of step with the stats in the desktop version of WP. It’s been difficult to know which stats are correct in to judge visits to the blog and which posts are getting hits. If that side of things was a little more reliable I would’ve given it a slightly higher rating. But it’s still very good for a free app, though..Version: 13.3
✓ App is glitchy yet but somewhat functionalDownloaded this because I have long commutes and figured I might as well be productive and work on some posts. At first glance, this app seems to have all the features of the web version. however, once you begin to use it you’ll find it’s very glitchy, with the keyboard jolting up and down, buttons becoming unpressable, the scroll zooming to different parts of the page, and even deleting paragraph blocks! I lost an entire 1000 words for no reason but I was able to recover it in the history. I have an iPhone 6, but I’ve never experienced glitches like this on other apps so I wouldn’t chalk it up to that. Also, it absolutely kills the battery life. Don’t open the app on 20% because you’ll only have a few minutes. I haven’t tried wordpress on safari but it might be better than this; I’ll have to see. however, the app is functional if you’re doing nothing for a long period of time and don’t have access to a computer. Use at your own risk!.Version: 14.7
✓ Mixes data between sites.This version is terrible. It mixes page view data from one site to another. If I view site A, look at the pages with traffic, then view site B, the data from site A will show. I need to close the app each time I want to view a different website..Version: 15.5
✓ Does not work! Seriously...DOES NOT WORK!This is the classic “I wish I could give it a zero star rating”- I am sorry, but this thing has always been very buggy and never syncs properly. Finally, I was given advice from a tech support friend at another company who was familiar with this problem: he agreed the app is no good and told me that it was easier to just bookmark your web page on your phone and go directly to it. He was right— I put an icon on my home screen that I hit when I want to use/edit/check up on comments etc., and it works so much better than this dumb app which has only resulted in me wasting an hour or two of my life trying to get it to work properly. Don’t like to give negative reviews but my irritation level is too high to just delete it and forget it, so a parting shot before I delete it is warranted to keep future potential users from wasting time on it. You have been warned!.Version: 8.8
✓ Crashes the Admin DashboardTrying to login to the Wordpress installation on my personal website with this App will crash the Admin Dashboard of my website. I won’t be able to log on using either this app or a web browser for a period, could be the web hosting firewall seeing something and imposing a lock out. Since removed the App and log on using Safari browser without problems..Version: 10.1.1
✓ Should be zero starsThis app has locked itself from functioning. It’s so buggy and broken that it’s asking me to log in (had some sort of error so needs me to confirm my password) except! Won’t let me press next to actually submit my password for verification. If I try to press cancel to log back in fully the app warns me “you’ll lose all your data on this device” what the hell Wordpress. I even tried updating my password to see if the app would fix itself. No lock I’m just going to have to use my browser. The developer has contacted me, but showed they have little understanding of the issue. I can not access the app at all (only says enter in your password and won’t let me press next at all) and yet the developer wants me to use the help and support feature within the app..Version: 8.8
✓ Something strangeFrom working well previously Wordpress has suddenly become clunky again. Reviewing a saved or scheduled blog sends you on a path to nowhere. Very odd and detracts from an app that has improved so much over the past year..Version: 8.6
✓ Could be betterFirstly I wish there is an option "draft", as it crash few times while typing my blog, after it crush words become empty. Secondly its a useful app but it's good to have a preview page which could check my blog well and make a comment easily. I have no idea why become hardly to left a comments on web blog as I am stranger havnt yet login ..Version: 2.9.6
✓ Limited?Doesn't seem to show all posts for self-hosted. Combines pending and drafts which breaks the model used in the web version. Doesn't refresh when switching between post tabs. Okay for posting and editing..Version: 23.9.1
✓ Erases progress, does not sync with desktop site, saves without promptingI used this app yesterday to edit my blog. Later that evening I did more writing and a editing on my desktop as I have done reliably for years. I loaded the app today to pick up where I left off. Not only did this app NOT load the most recent version of this page as saved via my desktop and instead loaded only the page as last used on this app the previous day, but also immediately saved the page as this outdated version without prompting, thus erasing all progress made on my desktop the previous evening. When I looked up the page edit history to revert this app’s mistake, it loaded only the edit history up to the date and time when I first used this app. The desktop version was nowhere to be found. It did however show up in the edit history when I logged into the desktop again just now, proving that it did in fact save, so this error was entirely the fault of this app and thus rendering it entirely useless with no redeemable qualities whatsoever. Deleted..Version: 12.5.1
✓ Fails to do its basic jobsI have spent the last hour trying to get into the app with my site. The link to one click sign in out of the app only signs into a browser, in the browser it ask if i want to open in app and it tries to open the app store. This is just the most recent issue! Editing of blog posts is missing a huge number of options making it pointless to use the app to post new blogs. And if you display a preview it looks nothing like my site. This is infuriating I’m boarding on taking my business elsewhere. Avoid the apps just use it on a computer in your browser. Wait till wordpress catches up to the rest of the world with an app that wasn’t developed for the 90s..Version: 11.5
✓ TerribleIt’s terrible but it’s the only app I have to work on my blog. Honestly though, it is so bad I’m not sure I will keep my blog with wordpress. It relies in a block editor that is not only hard to use, doesn’t include all the blocks that can be used. Edit: Apple has informed me that wordpress would like me to change my 1 star review. The answer: No! The reason: The app is still terrible. I am still considering deleting my blog altogether. I have contacted support, gone round and round in circles, and still didn’t get help with my original problem. I was sent an email that said if I upgraded to a paid program that I’d get 24 hour support. Really? The only way you’ll help me is if I pay you? You haven’t proved to me your service is worth me paying you anything. I was thinking if updating right from the beginning but now I’m not sure this is worth the daily struggle. One more thing: You’ve made the block editor on this app way too small. You had lots to space but decided to use less than you needed to use. Don’t ask me to update this review again until you do something worth the update..Version: 20.8
✓ Can’t seem to get help with photo upload issues.Very frustrated..Version: 21.9
✓ Wasted my money when I can’t do anything!Ok I’m fed up with this and I’ve been patient! When I’m on my web page to view as I just started building it, I get an Error message when I click on Menus saying”The operation couldn’t be completed. ( NSURLError Domain error -999.)So every time I log in and go to Dashboard in red it tells me “Please configure your Google Analytics settings so I click the link and license key shows up under Monster insights and general. I scroll down to google Authentication and tap the connect Monster Insights and I get 403. Error: disallowed _useragent. When I click learn more I get anotherError: The password you entered for the email address is incorrect. I’m very new to this so I’m not savvy so I would have given a better review if I could get some help and maybe make a web page😡👈🏻.Version: 13.0
✓ Paragraph returns disappear on publishingWorks great, but unfortunately the fact that paragraph returns get erased upon saving made it though the net into the released app. It’s very hard to use when your paragraphs all merge into one massive wall of text every time you publish. super hopeful that it gets fixed soon, because otherwise this app is a joy to use..Version: 8.4
✓ Okay-ishThe app is very handy for reading posts and managing your site on the go, but I have two improvements that could be made: 1. When notifications have been read in the app sync that to the web version as well 2. Update the editor to the latest Wordpress editor, as it’s really annoying when you open a post with new blocks, and because the app can’t read it, it ruins your post.Version: 11.9
✓ TediousNot totally impressed with the App, or Wordpress overall. I have the free account so I guess you get what you pay for? 1. It takes an **incredibly** long time to upload more than 20 photos - if you do it from your device, the images will at least load in order of how you’ve arranged them in your folders. If you upload to the Media folder first, they swoop in there quickly, but the order arrangement is messed up and I have to go back on a desktop to rearrange them. 2. There is not a way to see the total images per gallery; I’d like to keep track of how many go in but am unable to find that information. I guess there’s a way to see this but it sounds like having Coding experience is necessary. 3. When I delete an image from a gallery, I wish it would also delete from the media library. Having to cycle back through several pages to try and find a thumbnail version of an image I want removed completely is taxing..Version: 19.8
✓ User InterfaceThis is a problematic app if it isn’t user friendly. I’m trying to create subpages for categories of my blog but once the parent page is established, the subpages just copy whatever is in the parent page. This is unacceptable. Subcategories are the foundation of organization. Without them, every subtopic is lost in the sea of excess main topics. They shouldn’t be main topics. Please fix this. If not, there is no reason to stay with this app. Am I missing something? Are there simple tutorials clearing this up and I’m an idiot? Can someone who has mastered this app show me how it works? I just deleted an important page just to put a link in that erased the content and luckily I took a screenshot before losing it all to the cyber graveyard....Version: 12.0
✓ Stop promoting LGBTQI don't like the Pride support this month. Change the app back. Not everyone supports this!!.Version: 19.9.1
✓ AwfulIn this age / year of 2019+ you don’t expect slow, unreliable service such as this. As people have stated; it doesn’t recognise other updates via connected devices. It is not easy to apply giphs etc. In some respects it’s great- altering text, adding pictures. This being said - WHY can’t it go the extra mile as required and upload moving images as requested? Two steps forward- ten backwards (as ever!) If it could sync to other services it would be better, or just do the overall job it’s meant to do. It sadly can’t complete this in it’s entirety. Sad. Disappointed..Version: 13.5.1
✓ Creating post from iOS Share Sheet never worksThis has been an ongoing issue. I mail use Brave browser but whether I’m sharing from Brave or Safari, no post is ever created. One time it created a Draft, but haven’t even been able to do that anymore..Version: 19.8.1
✓ Not what it used to beI have been on WordPress for many years now. Overall I’ve been happy with their customer service and the website I have been able to create using their tools. However in the last couple of years I’ve become very frustrated with them. This is mainly due to the fact that they got rid of the classic editor and replaced it with something called blocks. If I had hair I would’ve pulled it out long ago. It’s been nothing but a waste of time and utter frustration every time I want to update my website. I learned recently that I could use the classic editor but only if I upgraded to a pro account so I could install the plug-in. Now I am paying three times what I did for my subscription. I would pay anything to get the classic editor back but it seems like a ploy on their part to corner me into getting a pro account. I no longer recommend their website to my friends and colleagues..Version: 19.5
✓ Bad newsStill crashing, saving over work, giving errors that you can't press ok for and losing work. Sometimes I have to reboot my phone to clear them. This app stresses me out. I feel like I have to write everything in notes first then paste it into the app. The biggest annoyance for me is when it saves over my drafts with the previous version of the draft. You have to hit refresh every time you save something or else you lose everything you just added..Version: 0
✓ Une poubelleUne erreur s’est produite ! C’est un carnage ce logiciel à utiliser ! C’est dévastateur s’en servir ! Ils devraient tout effacer et recommencer à zéro ! Les techniciens vont vous dire qu’ils est bon car ils doivent pas le payer chère et revendable plus facilement une cochonnerie ! - 4 est le vrai score !.Version: 21.4.1
✓ Doesn’t really do anythingShows visitors and such but can’t open any page to edit and under plugins disabling or activating then says something went wrong try later..Version: 20.9
✓ Good but missing some featuresThe app is very useful but it is missing some key features that I need to manage my blog. There is no tab for WordAds on the app and there are no options for inserting photos- I use circular photo effects for all my blog posts but cannot insert these on the app. I therefore have to switch to a browser to add the circular images, making things a lot more difficult as I constantly have to switch between devices (I need to use the app as all my photos are stored on my iPad, not my laptop)..Version: 10.3.2
✓ Colour for textI was wondering if we would be able eventually to add colour in our text, because on my laptop I can, but on the app, I can’t..Version: 17.1
✓ Hire a developerBest way to use this diy app is to hire a techie. Not intuitive ! Confusing and just feels plain cloogy..Version: 17.1
✓ Can’t even use the app to get an account!!!!By all accounts this is a brilliant app, or so I have heard. So far my experience however has been less than satisfactory. It appears you can only really use Mail to get an account, and the online tech help so far has been less than satisfactory. Now, I don’t use Mail the mail app due to technical issues, and prefer to use another email app instead. So, when I enter my email and get it to send the confirmation it works, but when I click the link A PAGE OPENS UP AND THEN CLOSES!!! The links, that supposedly expire within an hour, have been expiring within thirty seconds. It is extremely frustrating, as I am sure you can imagine..Version: 12.2
✓ I can’t believe how bad it isFor an website used by so many people, I honestly can’t believe how horrible this app is. I have an eye condition that makes using my laptop bothersome, so I thought I could try using the app. Boy, was I wrong! First, it didn’t recognize any of my drafts and acted like I had none. I thought I was logged into one of my beta sites for a moment (I wasn’t). I finally found the draft in a different location, but when I started editing the post it kept freezing and glitching. I sat there and watched my screen jump frantically from section to section like someone was remotely using the app and going crazy... then it wouldn’t save, and it keeps cutting my blocks off visually. I turned my phone to landscape to see it better but it’s cut off by the keyboard and won’t move. It’s... awful..Version: 15.7
✓ UselessThis app is useless for iOS. I can’t upload photos or make a post. There are error messages ‘upload fail’. I can’t even move photos from my phone into my account so when I log in on a desktop, the photos are available. I wish we just used blogspot or something way more user friendly. My husband has a computer science degree and he can’t figure out why this app is such garbage for iOS.Version: 16.6.1
✓ 500 internal server errorGave me a 500 error and wouldn't work, couldn't press okay on the error and continue working at all, had to hit the home button on the ipad to exit the application. The app also crashes a lot, I have another blog that doesn't suffer from the dreaded 500 error but the app crashes too often to be usable..Version: 0
✓ Many BugsThis app has many issues that make it unbearable for regular users especially corporate use. Every time I try to upload a featured image, the app bugs out. Not sure why this app was approved as it has so many bugs..Version: 21.2
✓ Slow and unresponsiveI can live with the limited features, because I primarily want something to quickly check stats at random times. But the recent versions are painfully slow fetching updated information — and going back and forth between screens seems glacial compared to how quickly you can get the info on a web browser. The fact that you have to click on a “more” link after only about half a dozen posts (on the stats page) is frustrating. Then when you go one level deeper and come back, the numbers have reverted to a report from earlier in the day, not the one you just saw. I’m not technically astute enough to know what causes these frustrations, but it reminds me of the old days of the Facebook app, when it was just a wrapper around a web app. Also, it’s useful on the desktop browser version that it tells me what time these stats are from (for easily knowing how many hits I’ve had since that time), and it’s inexplicable that this simple feature was removed from the app a few years back. I realize the app is free — so it costs me nothing — but I think it’s borderline unusable in its current state..Version: 18.5
✓ Keeps going wrong!Keeps freezing me out of the app and back onto my phone homepage whenever I try any commands. Having to repeat commands to get simple things done. Really frustrating, not at all helpful! Plus, when I get the app to half work, I find it really user-unfriendly, over complicated and doesn’t save my changes. I will use have to use Wordpress, unfortunately I’ll just have to delay my writing until I get a laptop. A bit disappointed as I’ve paid for an upgrade already, not realising how awful the app is!.Version: 15.0
✓ WordpressThe Wordpress app is lately much more confusing to use... The distinction between Site Pages & Blogs is unclear with a new article sometimes going in one and sometimes into the other. It seems publishing it as the former gets much less distribution and the audience has no visibility of other articles you have written. Furthermore, in the past you were steered to put an article into a category and assign tags or keywords so interested readers would find them; but not now!.Version: 11.9.1
✓ WordpressVery frustrating and will not let me customize.Version: 21.2
✓ Not much useDeleted and reinstalled twice. Now deleted again. Like the desktop version. Too difficult to use on phone. Please make it simple to amend pages..Version: 11.5
✓ Pretty Good but could do betterThis app is great for updating my wordpress blog on the go. It would be fine for a few hours and would start crashing after. I don’t know how to fix this as it happens frequently and I hope an update fixes this..Version: 9.5
✓ Background activityI have absolutely no issues with this app other than the total battery drain because of background activity even though I’ve turned off background app refresh in my phone settings. Whilst using the app my phone becomes so hot I have to take a break from it. For creating and reading posts on the go, it’s pretty much just like the website which is great. Will add lots stars when battery issue is resolved.Version: 10.9
✓ YikesI’ve never written a review, but had to come here to write this one. One of the least intuitive apps I’ve ever used. I’d rather bring my laptop everywhere until I die than have to use this app ever again..Version: 16.1
✓ Love itCan no longer check notifications from my phone..Version: 6.6
✓ DisappointedI wish this app worked better that it does. It takes forever to load and doesn’t register the modifications I make on other devices. I uploaded a post from my computer, but when I check the app on my iPad, it’s nowhere to be found (I checked the published, drafts, and trash folders). It’s too bad, because the app could make things so much easier for media upload. Pictures taken on my phone join my iPad's photo stream, and I should theoretically be able to publish them directly to Wordpress, but they take forever to load. Instead, I need to AirDrop the photos to a computer, and work from there. I don't always have access to the computer, so it's a shame the app doesn't work..Version: 15.8
✓ Do Not Waste Your TimeI have had multiple problems with the app, at this point I’ll go into my mobile browser and blog that way. 1. Scheduled 3 months worth of posts, come back too start writing an hour later, nothing is in my scheduled section, I have to search for each post. 2. When going between iPad, iPhone and Browser, your edits won’t save and you will have lost all previous progress. 3. If you publish a post on one device, it WILL not update from the last time you were in the post... (started in a draft on iPad, finished on iPhone and published, come back to iPad, still saved in drafts, refreshing does NOTHING) 4. When creating a scheduled post of different devices, they WILL not show up in my posts, not even if I search them. The more I’ve tried to put faith into this app to get its crap together, it just gets worse and worse!!! AVOID AT ALL COST, DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME & JUST USE A BROWSER!!!!.Version: 11.6
✓ FIX THIS APP!Yes, you can log on and write on it. No, it doesn’t have anywhere near full features. Yes it overheats your new phone. Yes it lags and sometimes crashes. Yes it jams and struggles to keep up with your writing. For example, if I were to write a blog with this review it would take 15-45 seconds to catch up with the last words. If I hit update when it’s all caught up it just ignores what I’ve told it to do. I had to tap update 59 times to get it to update two average-length sentences and was worried I would lose all my progress. It absolutely cannot handle extensive writing. It cannot handle any challenges. If you want the bare bones and a quick way to throw up a blog then it’s decent, but if you need to actually get work done then just use a computer..Version: 15.0
✓ Good app but battery drain is awfulThis app is well built and allows you to manage your sites very well. My criticism would be the huge battery drain while using it. Just while writing blog posts a fully charged, relatively new iPhone 12 Pro with a health battery flattens completely in around an hour and a half. Even a high end game can’t achieve that! Make me reluctant to sit in a train and blog, as it can mean my phone won’t last much longer, which is a really shame..Version: 20.7
✓ DiscouragedWhen I Thought I was getting a good deal it was all good. But I see now it’s a trick. I signed up for the premium service. Which I thought it said, they would build the website and I would have help with the building of it, I thought it said that it would be like having them sitting next to me. But that wasn’t the case what so ever. When I went to the support site (after I was emailed a link to get right back to my account) I had to login Every time. That alone was a great big pain in the rear. And everything I wanted to add while I tried to build it? Which I don’t know how to use this program. Everyone says it’s so easy to use has experience in building websites. I do not have any experience. And now when I login to my account it says to upgrade to premium? WTH?? I have receipts to prove that is what I paid for to begin with!! Disappointed Discouraged!.Version: 12.4
✓ Website issuesConstant issues once again after the newest update. block editor wont work properly..Version: 17.1
✓ Missing options and poor experience uploading photosI can’t link a bulleted item. Why? I can’t add a carousel photo gallery. Why? Adding photos to my blog posts using the app is a nightmare. For EACH photo, I must: 1. Add photo block 2. Upload photo from my device (iPhone camera role) 3. Wait for photo to “fail to upload” 4. Delete the photo block 5. Add a new photo block 6. Add photo from the Wordpress media gallery (instead of my device as it’s now sitting in the media area from when I attempted to upload it from my device in step 2). 7. Publish post 8. Wait for the blog post to fail 9. Go to the media, cancel all photos that are in the process of uploaded (doubles) 10. Publish again (results in publishing successfully with all photos published) If I have to upload all photos to Wordpress media to use them without all this hassle, then why is there an option to upload from “my device” when adding a photo block?? It took me years to figure out how to post photos to my blog site by following those 10 steps when using the app. I opened a couple of tickets and no one could help me. Please do better, Wordpress! I need to do everything on my phone that I can do on the desktop version and uploading photos should not be a 10 step process..Version: 21.4
✓ Several problems1. Site Switcher sometimes fails. An iOS Shortcut where WordPress Site A is set to open eventually leads to the editor of Site B (which you opened last time). Although Site Switcher displays Site A, when you click the Add Post button, what comes up may not be the editor of Site A but that of the site you last added a post to. You have to manually select the right site again in My Site. 2. The Site Switcher doesn’t display favicons if you just put a favicon.ico file in the main directory. It only recognizes the favicon you set up through theme customization. When you upload a favicon through Site Switcher, PNGs lose transparent backgrounds. 3. Removing Classic Editor is a bad idea. HTML Mode with Syntax Highlighting is a must for many WordPress users. I myself rely on HTML Mode 90% of my blogging time. 4. Post Settings should be enriched. Some plug-ins, such as Limit Modified Date, cannot display under post settings. Custom Fields are not supported in the app, either. So 50% of the time I still need to log in to Dashboard in the web app..Version: 17.2
✓ Useless app for self hostedCannot connect to self hosted site. Stupid endless “Require XML-RPC methods missing” errors. My XML RPC file is accessible. Hosted on my own hardware. Forum is useless and FAQ reference and documentation are out dated. Not sure how this app got 4 stars..Version: 11.5
✓ Cant even open itI enter my email, it sends me to a link in my email, I click on it and it says it’s expired and I need to restart and get a new link. Even though I clicked on the link SECONDS after it was sent. Did it 5 times a gave up. Waste of time.Version: 23.5
✓ Bugs bugs bugs!Before the update I’ve recently installed for my iPad I was able to select amounts of words to highlight, make bold and etc, but recently it seems to have thrown my collaboration off on my screen (pen and finger tips). I’m unable to select a sentence or more than one word without the whole paragraph being selected. Aside from selecting words, I’m unable to scroll with side menus as it thinks I’m selecting options. Aside from that, I’ve had a few more issues where the update button does not work for some reason and also other aspects of the app seem to be not working..Version: 10.9
✓ Block Editor is AwfulI used to love this app but Block Editor is awful. I’ve even turned it off but it just comes back. I do loads of writing on my iPad and then go to my iPhone and it just say lock Cannot Be Displayed. I’m wasting so much time going between devices it’s beyond a joke. I’m paying for a service and I don’t expect this rubbish. I will be moving off Wordpress if this isn’t fixed soon..Version: 14.4.1
✓ It’s not all badIt’s main pain point is it doesn’t show any of my plugins which makes the app fairly useless to me. I can’t use elementor to edit my site, so I can’t edit it at all. If you’re just using it for blogging, it should be 80% of what I would want. I’m not blogging and want to manage my plugins, so the app is fairly useless to me..Version: 13.2
✓ Can’t log inIt keeps trying to get me to create a new account, even though I already have one. Terrible app..Version: 23.8
✓ Highly unreliableThe website is serviceable enough, but in my experience the app is unreliable and prone to bugs. Most damaging of all, the save button doesn’t always work, meaning that there is a high risk that you will lose work if you try to use the app to progress a draft article. Wordpress itself has zero understanding of the disciplines of academic work. There is constant pressure (in the form of pop ups) to publish articles before they are ready. Sorry I can’t be more positive but the app crashed on me today despite a good wifi connection and I lost 30 minutes’ work..Version: 18.4
✓ The post editor is SO CLUNKYI’m not sure if it’s because my post is really long and contains a lot of pictures, but the editor literally spazzes out when i go from trying to edit captions in a gallery, to other word blocks - the focused block keeps jumping around (even if I’m not typing or touching the screen at all)! I either end up having to try to force update the post, or killing the app all together. Given that I’m writing a photo-heavy post, I end up having to do this every 10-20 minutes, which makes the editor almost unusable!!! Super frustrating :( Also, if I want to change the layout of a set of blocks, it’s not very intuitive at all (at least on ipad) and if I want to convert a ‘media + text’ block back into just an image block, or text blocks, i either have to pick “convert to image” in which case all of the text disappears, or “convert to text” in which case the image disappears. I kinda wish Wordpress didn’t migrate to this weird block-based notion-like interface..Version: 21.6
✓ Terribly designed, poor featuresWant to post a couple photos with a bit of text to your Wordpress blog? Well too bad, you can’t do that with the Wordpress app. Any photos taken with your phone and uploaded using the Wordpress app appear with an incorrect rotation. If you took your photo in portrait, the Wordpress app uploads it in landscape. Additionally, the Wordpress app makes it extraordinarily difficult to make images link to their media file so that when readers click the image it shows them the full size image. Instead, you have to navigate through countless screens and pop up menus in order to copy the media’s URL from the media page and then go all the way back into the blog post to edit the image. I do not know how someone at Wordpress thought this app was going to be useful to people. This app is useless..Version: 10.9
✓ Paid and downloaded but can’t access on iPhoneI am really struggling with this app. It will not let me open an account that I have paid for. I paid for it on my iPad but I still should be able to log in on phone..Version: 14.2.1
✓ Was useful, now mostly just ads for JetpackUntil recently, was minimally useful as a dashboard to review my WordPress site stats, but a recent update has hidden all functionality behind full-screen ads for the new Jetpack app. I do not recommend this app, the Jetpack app, or the Jetpack service at this point..Version: 21.4.1
✓ Creating Resentment, not lovePLEASE STOP USING A PLATFORM THATS MEANT TO BE “PROFESSIONAL” TO PUSH YOUR POLITICS! You might think you are helping the community you are trying to show support for but anyone with a background in clinical psychology will tell you you are actually doing the opposite. This is common sense but apparently it’s news for you… most people around the world and definitely most Americans have no problem with the people in this community you are advocating for. When compassion is voluntary and born out of the individuals initiative, it creates a sense of gratitude in the one receiving it and a sense of charity in the one giving it. It is truly a beautiful process and what creates lasting change! Unfortunately, when globalist companies (like Automatic) think they know best and try to force compassion on people by over politicizing everything. Then the community you are actually trying to help begins to feel entitled and a large portion of the rest of the world develops resentment. This is exactly what we’re seeing now in various cultures around the world that have been bombarded with political advocacy. My hats off to you for trying but don’t follow these other companies and be a leader and do it the right way that will create lasting change in people..Version: 19.9.1
✓ Can’t log in and check statsHard to do productive stuff on this app… and the biggest reason I want it is to check stats on the go. But it tells me to log in every time and even after I log in, it reverts back to the login screen. I can’t do anything!!!.Version: 20.9
✓ Ambitious but buggy appThis is a very ambitious app in its scope— it is trying to replicate all of the features of WP web experience. Unfortunately, the feature set is so large and the scope footprint is very complicated for Wordpress. As a result, while this app has some great features and is easy to navigate, it is some extordinarily annoying bugs, especially when using it on my iPad with an external keyboard. The sections don’t expand as I type, puting my cursor into “invisible space.” It can be very difficult to touch-select my cursor to the right spot. It has strange glitches and gets into strange states where it needs to be restarted. If it didn’t have these bugs, I’d give it a 5. I’d really like to see it stay in the App store and improve but for the time being it is a sub-par experience to working on the WP web on my laptop, so this app is not for me for that reason..Version: 14.8.2
✓ Adding Media: Audio is missingFor the podcasters on wordpress, the Audio in the Add Media editing block is a must..Version: 15.7
✓ Loss of faith in the productOnce again I’ve had an offline draft trashed by the app, which resulted in losing about 4 hours of writing and editing. I no longer trust the Wordpress app as it doesn’t fail safe — it fails with data loss. If you author posts offline (say on long flight without WiFi), AVOID using this app and compose in anything else. It is a shame, really, that the Wordpress app can’t function on the level of the most rudimentary iOS text editor. Loss of a star, loss of faith... — (Edit: It is great to hear that a number of the issues I’ve mentioned below are on the roadmap and that the app is not in maintenance mode. Thank you, Automattic, +1 for paying attention and raising hope for something better) — Aesthetics and ancient UI aside, I’m disappointed in its utter lack of any reasonable offline editing support (it kinda works, but one wrong tap and you’ve lost the draft you’ve been working on) as well as its inability to render basic HTML. Don’t believe me? It can’t render definition/description lists, a common staple of formatting for literally decades. Author a DL and it shows as simply “[DL]”. DLs aren’t exactly cutting edge and new... This app rises to the top only because the others out there only aspire to be as good as this product (which is a very low bar). I expect more from the top blogging platform on the planet, but it is what it is: an app for maintaining your Wordpress blog and little else..Version: 13.3
✓ This app has never worked well for me on self-hosted instancesOn a shared host environment under Stablehost, Login will sometimes fail (saying it can’t find the server) trying again once or twice, you will be able to get in. Once in, it takes extraordinarily long to populate the posts pane often never populating at all. Better just to fire up a web browser and get into the dashboard directly via the Web interface. With an WP instance hosted on a Digital Ocean droplet. This app had performed more fluidly, the posts would populate a lot more quickly in the App, however, often random posts that you knew are there were missing from the posts listing. Editing a post, you will find that you’re more limited in functionality than what you get with the Web Interface (e.g Can’t surpress posts from the front page - served by a plugin). Again, eventually got rid of the app and simply fired up the browser to manage the WP installation instead. Trying again today, and attempting to login to another WP instance on Digital Ocean, the App complains about XML-RPC methods missing. Googling will give you a variety of answers, often not relevant to one’s situation consuming a lot of time. After some time wasting, have just given up. Some real issues with how user hostile this app is with regards to Self Hosted instances..Version: 13.8.1
✓ Can’t upload photos in posts!When I upload a photo to my post, it says ‘media uploading’ but this takes AGES to upload. When I try to leave the page, it says I can’t because it’s still uploading the photo. It never did this before but now it’s a major problem and is getting on my nerves. Have had to delete several of my posts because of this..Version: 9.5
✓ Scheduled post problemsFor about 2 weeks now, the scheduled posts aren’t posting on time. I’ve had to force them through after the fact. What’s going on?.Version: 16.2
✓ New to blogging but wish things left aloneIn general i dont like apps. It’s the icon god to a program. But forced into some things. I’d prefer if all companies took their time, made sure all changes through apps to iPads to software updates to those were all compatible. Why make tiny update to things to accidentally leave something off every few weeks? Then have to have a million bug fixes? So for ipad I cannot see some of my pics to edit them. But can see on the post. And i have looked at all things to turn off and on. I no longer have ability as of few months ago to edit or add other features. Like main picture. Add to my headings pages etc. They no longer exist in any menu?? In new blog or edit blog. The page itself has were these categories exist but now while creating or editing a blog. I am using a free version though. Oddly to get the “visual” view to show I also ave to turn it to http to force it to flip to visual by clicking it back. If I dont do that toggle off and on, all is shaded. It’s not a choice. It’s just gray until I got back and forth to get it to be not gray?? Thats dumb..Version: 14.1
✓ It just won't. Stop. FREEZING.I rarely go to make a negative review but since this is an app I have to keep using I felt like I needed to say something. I usually have to switch between using my browser and the app because when typing a rather simple blog the app will continuously freeze and make me wait for it to load words. It'll let me type like 5 at a time and then freeze again and again. I would use only the browser version (on my phone) but it doesn't always want to function correctly when it comes to formatting. So I usually end up having to use the browser to type paragraphs and then format them in the app. It just seems like it should have better optimization than this..Version: 15.6
✓ Quite buggy on ipad and make video block free again!When posing content onto a post (especially pictures) it slows the entire app down ALOT, especially when it comes to updating a draft. I have to constantly re-download to fix it. Also a-lot of my media in my posts lose their captions after updating a draft and re-opening the app. As someone who has to use wordpress for my work, i have to upload media to the site as i am not allowed to embed , please make it so that the video block is free again as it is a big part of my work.Version: 19.1
✓ Quite uselessQuite useless for self hosted sites. I have four year old apps that have never been updated that work better. Pages unavailable. Posts don’t show and it insists I have no media on my site. My site has been running for a while now with plenty of pages and posts. Running https. Keeps insisting that I NEED jet pack. I don’t. Have been trying to use this app on and off for about 3 months now. I only downloaded it again just to write a review. I use an iPad mini4 running the absolute latest iOS every time...oh well, back to safari which is okay - drag and drop doesn’t work and the blocks editor goes all over the place, but there you go. It’s a work in progress, still..Version: 14.7
✓ Could be better.I think that the app has gotten a lot cleaner in recent months, and there are some features present that previously weren’t unless you were on the desktop site. Despite that, I still am experiencing some issues with the app. My first and main issue is that it’s EXTREMELY difficult or impossible to manipulate the HTML in the iPad app. For instance, resizing photos with HTML does not work in-app. If I try to do so, then publish my post, all the formatting I did will disappear. My other problem is with text formatting. There is some bug (for lack of a better word) that occurs when using bold or italics. If I change my text to bold, then enter for a new paragraph and am still using bold, it will publish in such a way that all of the bold text is mashed together into one giant bold paragraph. There are also some huge bugs with ordered and unordered lists. Typically, the first item in my list will “jump” to the previous paragraph after I publish the post or save it as a draft. There seems to be no way to fix this, (either in HTML or Rich Text mode), unless I’m in the desktop site. Besides bugs, another feature that would be nice to have in the app is the ability to mosaic multiple photos like you can in the desktop site..Version: 9.1
✓ Post update failI recently wrote a lengthy detailed post on my MacBook using Wordpress in safari. I attempted to update the post using this app on my iPhone. I clicked the update button thinking it would update to the version I wrote on my MacBook. It did not. It updated the to the iPhone version and wiped all of my hard work. If you use this app make sure that the version you want is on your iPhone app already. Now It won't sync with Wordpress at all..Version: 3.2
✓ Needs better offline editing/writing capabilitiesI’m currently travelling around Australia where mobile connectivity and wifi is scarce if not non-existent. The Wordpress app is a great way for me to update my blog on the go, except for frustrating glitches and crashes that lose my work from time to time. Perhaps an “offline mode” would be good - and offline/local saving and editing so I can have more than one post on the go..Version: 11.0
✓ Options for pride?At the risk of being attacked, I’d like to say that I don’t appreciate the app logo being turned into a rainbow for pride. While it is great for some, it goes against religious/personal beliefs of others. If you’d like to show your support, please make it where app users can opt in rather than force everyone to have a rainbow. Forcing the issue is just as insensitive and offensive as doing the opposite. Rather than automatically updating the app face, again, just let people choose for themselves. I’m quite disappointed that, for a platform that is designed to be personalized to suit and encompass a person, this isn’t customizable in this regard. This is a big issue right now. Please be more aware that without giving options, we are recreating the same problems with a different spotlight on it. I hope you read and take this into consideration. 🕊.Version: 17.5
✓ App is agonisingly slow and clunkyWordpress as a whole is great, but the app is a let-down. I do most of my editing on within the CMS on a laptop and use the app for responding to comments and checking traffic stats - and that’s where it most lets the user down. Refreshing the stats and switching between daily, weekly, monthly viewing figures takes an AGE - as much as 30 seconds. It makes using it a real frustration and even though it seems like an easy fix, this has been an issue for me for the last 18 months at least..Version: 16.9
✓ Limited UseGood to see WordPress trying to bring their platform forward to the next level. Currently this app has limited use, has problems with "Better WordPress Security" and does not work with SEO plugins but going in the right direction. I'm sure that if more people test this app and add comments it will only get better..Version: 3.7.1
✓ Constant crashesI have to use this site for my college work yet I can’t upload or do any work at all because every time I click publish it crashes my app and deletes my work. Some pages I can’t even click on and see because it’ll quit staging away. I’m not sure what to do as I don’t have access to a PC like I did in college. Everything is up to date and my phone itself works fine. Could anyone tell me if they’re having this problem too or if there’s a way to sort it out? I’m worried about deadlines and falling behind in class :c.Version: 14.5
✓ I was happy with Word PressBut since the last upgrade I can’t start the application any more. I’ve tried reinstalling and logging in again, but no joy. Crashes every time on starting. :-(.Version: 9.1
✓ Can’t even add a contact formI’ve installed, can make changes in general but want to put a contact form at bottom of my homepage and the widget list is missing the most basic requirement of a contact form. I have downloaded a contact form plugin but there’s no option in the app to install a plugin. Wordpress why so confusing and lacking in basic functionality? I’ve wasted an hr on this so far instead of being productive. Why why why.Version: 10.1.1
✓ Not able to add website…Won’t stop getting the following message when trying to add two different wordpress websites: XML-RPC Methods are missing on this server….Version: 19.2
✓ Shame they haven’t developed a program for PCThis app only works on iPads or iPhones which makes it hard to design a website. They should develop a program so users can build sites on a laptop or PC. They send zip files to do so but the zip file doesn’t do anything.Version: 9.3
✓ Terrible app with weird ads, and hate speech.Weird ads + hate speech on that platform..Version: 21.4.1
✓ Be wary!Update April 2021. These days, I only use this app to upload photos to my self-hosted WP site from my phone. But it makes my site unavailable. The hosting service pulled the logs and the app opens so many connections that the server thinks it’s a DOS attack and blocks my IP address! I’ve gone to uploading just one photo at a time, but sometimes it still looks like an attack to the server! So frustrating! I deleted two old "local" drafts from the app and the app also deleted the more recent published versions!! Gone! Several hours of unrecoverable work lost forever. Super unhappy. Update, Jan. 2018. This app also has issues synchronizing properly. I edit an existing draft at work on a browser, later open my iPad app at home, write more, then notice that my "at work" writings were missing and are now—unfortunately—overwritten and lost since the draft saved from the app. It seems the app assumes whatever version of a draft it has in still memory is current—BAD ASSUMPTION! Proper synchronization is major issue with this app. I'd recommend only editing from a browser and not using this app. I think I may just delete it off my iPad, it causes more headaches than it solves..Version: 17.1
✓ Horrible at syncingWhile the app is very handy and most of the things work great, my biggest issue is that it doesn’t sync with the desktop version u less I reinstall it. It is a huge flaw and should be fixed immediately. It has caused multiple issues in the past where I posted the wrong version due to this problem..Version: 14.7
✓ New update crashes on iPhone 7?Hey guys love the app but I recently updated the app on my iPhone 7 and it instantly crashes as soon as I try to open the app. Just an FYI..Version: 9.5
✓ If you like going round in circlesJust about to throw phone in bin. Have latest iOS, had a site on before and was able to see stats, tried to add new one, wouldn’t let me till I logged out and have been going round in circles for 45 minutes now. All I can do is follow blogs not add a website. Big fail. Update: only difference I can see is that the other I just used as a blog (though I still had pages and posts) this one is more an actual website with pages and posts. Is this only for blogs? Both were/are hosted by blue host.Version: 15.9
✓ Not idealWhen first starting on the site some context on certain terms like ‘tags’ etc. would be helpful... also a better help set up that actually runs through everything and how to use it..Version: 12.5.1
✓ Hurry and updateI am waiting for it to update and fix the problem that they lag. While i write something in the middle of my work it stops working and i cant carry on to what i need to write next. Every minute the keyboard disappear which irritate me. Not only that when i need to correct thing it wont let me and always goes back to disappear. When i need to go to a different paragraph it tends to go to the start and is hard to move it to the place i want. I tired restart it turning off my ipad still doesn't work. Please fix it, im not saying i hate it, i just want it fixed Thank you.Version: 6.2
✓ Not the real Wordpress.com is the super weird one.Version: 23.9.1
✓ InconsistentI use this to upload photos from my phone and have discovered that it’s best to upload the photo but do not place it in your post from the app. Last week I uploaded 10 photos and put them straight into my blog then published it. It looked great from my phone. However, 2 days later I pulled it up on my desktop and ALL the photos were sideways. I ended up having to delete it all from the post and redo all the photos, descriptions, everything from my desktop. As others have also noted the app seems to keep draft posts. In fact I had a draft still showing up that I had published from my desktop. When I deleted the draft, guess what? My post was gone too ...so be careful..Version: 13.3
✓ Was perfect before JetpackWill not be a returning customer..Version: 22.2
✓ Was quite good but now freezing and crashing very frequentlyNice way to read and add posts. Replies too. The only thing it freezes on start for a very loooong time. Nothing works but after some 20 secs either starts behaving or exits. Crashes 9/10 reading other long posts and failing at the moment in uploading videos. Short vids, just 20 secs fail upload after watching the progress bar crawl for a min or so and then nothing. No explanation, no success or fail just nothing. So much potential, sigh..Version: 10.8
✓ App cool with some little issuesThe app is cool but there is some issues in the synchronization between the changes I make on my desktop and the wordpress app.Version: 19.2
✓ Using “view” can cause IP address to be blocked.Since I updated the app a few updates ago, the app will block my IP address temporarily if I use “view” to look at posts too much. The blockage can last for quite a while and is a complete pain. Can you please fix it? I talked to my host. They said the block is coming from Wordpress, but it only occurs when using “view” on the phone app..Version: 13.0.1
✓ Not All ThereWhile decent, it just doesn’t live up to editing on the web browser. First not all the block options are available. I can’t even embed media like videos from YouTube or images from other places or apps. Please fix this and gives all the block options..Version: 17.5
✓ I want my classic editor!I need the classic editor because it’s the most convinient way to work on editing blog posts on the iphone. I posted on my blog last week and the classic editor was available, but today, it’s vanished. This is very inconvenient for me and my users because there’s no way to simply edit either on the bloc style. I use Voice Over and the classic editor is what I need..Version: 17.1
✓ Latest version is faultyThe latest version is faulty and does not show the weekly hits statistics properly. It will still shows "days" instead of weekly.Version: 12.7.1
✓ Lacking features from the full siteI use this app for work because I'm frequently on the go and away from a computer, and for whatever reason accessing the site from iOS Safari makes it impossible to save anything into the body text form. While this app is a lifesaver and easy to use for the most part, I'm continually frustrated by how many features from the main site are missing. For instance, there doesn't seem to be any way to assign authorship to a blog post in the app, and nor does there seem to be any way to edit metadata in the media library. I can live with the fact that embedded social media cards and iframes don't display properly in the text form while writing, but it would be nice if posting a raw url in the app's text form automatically converted it into an html embed. Another problem with the app is that it seems to have caching issues. Tons of drafts that have already been published stay visible in drafts, and keep accumulating the longer I use the app without deleting it. I hope solutions to these things are in the pipeline..Version: 11.5
✓ Cannot parse responseWhen I try to login, I receive the error “cannot parse response” no matter what I do. I’ve tried different websites, different usernames, different passwords and the result is always the same: “cannot parse response” and I have no idea what the problem is. What a horrible error message. Older version of the app was great but now it is unusable for me..Version: 20.6.1
✓ This was a great app until ...This was a brilliant time saving app where I could write blogs and other website content on the go until suddenly last week I was unable to upload any photos on the iOS version. I realise its very much a first world problem but it is a tiny bit inconvenient to have to go back to the laptop to add visual content..Version: 10.9
✓ IPhone fine, iPad notThis app is great as an iPhone app where you want to quickly and easily jot down the musings that start a new post or edit one that already exists. And if you’re the sort of blog that only worries about text, I’m sure that’s fine for you. However as a full posting machine it is sorely lacking, especially for a photo-heavy site like mine. I like to sit and write on my iPad with a keyboard. Writing-wise the app isn’t too bad, although any time there’s a new line — whether because you simply wrote more than a line of words, or because you hit return for a new line — the app is really sluggish to update. You have to stop what you’re doing to wait for it to catch up, or move consciously slowly. Adding photos is still sorely lacking too. I can’t format them the way I like without having to go through the web interface to finish off my posts — which almost makes the app completely redundant, because I’ve basically never published a post with it, always needing to go through the web to add the polish my posts need. So whilst it’s a pretty useful app, it’s still nowhere near as good as it should be..Version: 19.7
✓ Wordpress app takes ages to upload post or refreshWordpress app takes ages to upload post or refresh the screen that it’s uploaded. Most of the time the first two attempts to publish a post it fails saying it couldn’t upload. Last night on the third attempt to upload, after saving it as draft, it said upload failed. But it still must have worked, because after power off IPhone and rebooting It, it had been uploaded and published..Version: 19.8.1
✓ Just another social media siteI’m making this brief (short memo, pun intended because it is a writing app) because if I had been asked to write a review 3 months ago I would have given it 3 stars. However, upon closing out and deleting my account over a week ago, now I’m receiving spam from one of their 3rd party partners or at least I hope it’s spam, otherwise, the alternative is Wordpress has a security breach and my data has been compromised. In case you are wondering, TrustPilot sent me an email to the email address in Wordpress’ possession thanking me for a recent purchase (good luck with the payment as the debit card used was prepaid and now has $0 value) and asking me to review Wordpress’ based on a ‘free’ gift they were mailing me. How could I receive a gift since I have deleted the account and if I hadn’t deleted the account why did it take 3 months before I was told of the free gift but if there an honest to god free gift, ever, then why is Wordpress partnering with a party just to solicit a response by offering a made up item. You can’t really trust any of these social media sites..Version: 11.0
✓ Pretty but not functionalHad everything that would make it a good mobile editor but the cursor keep jumping up and down, the edits won’t register, I can’t see what I typed, update takes forever. I would be editing line (block) 15 and the cursor will jump to block 6, then back to 15, then to 10. The keyboard will also blink up and down. What I type for block 15 will end up in the middle of block 10. When clicking in a block, no matter where you are it’s automatically capitalised, not friendly with mobile editing, especially with how hard to finely control the cursor within a word..Version: 16.4
✓ Lacks too many essential functions.Unfortunately, the iOS app doesn’t offer any of the functionality of the Gutenberg blocks meaning that even after I abandoned the use of third-party plug-ins (which required a total redesign of my site) I cannot design posts with the structural or aesthetic qualities that I could, whilst using the browser. Another function that I find highly useful for an efficient. Workflow is the use of block patterns that can be selected from the editor in the browser. I have even designed my own custom patterns, which I can access from the editor in the browser. Unfortunately, the iOS app doesn’t offer block pattern functionality of any kind, which means that in order to create posts with the structure and look that I have designed, I would be required to manually insert each block which is incredibly time consuming and defeats the purpose of creating a block patterns in the first place. This means that rather than saving time and making it possible to work anywhere, I can only draft posts, which I would then have to remake once I get to a desktop computer… Or I would have to log in through my mobile browser in order to access the block patterns and other features from the Gutenberg editor. Either way, the iOS app is irrelevant and unuseful for my purposes. A notepad provides about as much functionality..Version: 21.7.1
✓ Had it for years, crashy, useless.I’ve had this app for years and every now and again I’d check it to see if it would work. Just updated it, opened it. Clicked comments, crashed. Useless. Update: A developer responded to this review and said this particular issue had been sorted, which it has. It now seems to work and have a fairly good user experience. I have upgraded from 1 star to 3. I’ll see how I get on and adjust the rating from there..Version: 14.6
✓ Losing classic editor a step backwardsBeing forced to use the block editor that is not ready for prime time and losing the classic editor that does what the block editor can’t (like have a left justified image with text to the right, and keep the image the size intended) is a step backwards. Been using this app for years, since it was first released. Seen it mature. But now having to look for alternatives, at least was given warning so have time to look..Version: 16.9
✓ CrashesI like the app, but recently I have been unable to add photos to my posts. Every time I click the add photo button, a loading screen appears, then before it loads my photo albums, the app crashes. This happens every time I try, please fix.Version: 5.3.1
✓ App just gets worse!Update: every time I upload a photo into a post on my iPad pro then go to edit the post on a computer all the images have moved from the center to the left hand side-incredibly frustrating when you have several pictures in a post, I have to make sure all the pictures are in the post before I move them to the center so adding a picture later is now impossible!! I frequently use this app to quickly update my posts or reply to comments, I can't fault the comments but trying to access the correct post is a nightmare. I have almost 300 posts but when I search for the one I need it never finds anything, so I have to scroll through the whole list (with the unnecessarily large pictures so it takes longer) to find the one I want. Maybe we could have a month posted button so we can find a post that we need from the month it was posted? And when I finally get to update I usually have to add pictures which since updating has become another problem, I can add a picture then the bar to add another disappears so I have to save and go back (and refind the post because it always goes right back to the top) So much hassle!!.Version: 8.9
✓ Poor appI used it with desktop and it was fine. Download the app and hope to edit it anywhere with my phone. Just impossible to add widget as it keep bounce out or gone on to other categories. Very frustrating to use..Version: 9.1
✓ Limited functionalityYes, it’s a mobile app, and ten years ago that would have justified its limited functionality and beta-like business, but not any more. The phone I use today has twice the computing power of the desktop computer I had when I first used WordPress. There’s simply no reason a Mobile app doesn’t have the same options I can get access to through a desktop computer. Add to that it’s inability to communicate properly with the desktop site (like how it almost never recognizes posts started, scheduled, or even published from the desktop) and it’s annoying built in bugs (it’s actually designed to pick up already used tags only after you type at least two letters (really? If I have to remember at least the first two letters then I’m actually forced to memorize them all... so what’s the point?). I suggest the top brass as WordPress use only this app for all their publishing needs for the next month. I’m certain we’d see some improvements. Until then I’ll just fumble through this as best I can going back and forth between app and desktop because, frankly, the website isn’t exactly mobile friendly. But then, neither is the mobile app..Version: 13.3
✓ Why am I paying for this ???Jeez - it gets worse! Now as well as functionality disappearing the last update has made it unusable on an iPhone! Characters being replaced with << for no reason, words disappearing at random. Can I have a refund ... bet the answer is no. Take the money, don’t provide the service. Oh and you are removing previous reviews too so I will say it again -why have you removed the option to add captions???.Version: 9.1
✓ None of my new changes are publishedI have my Wordpress website for years, recently I have changed my domain name and add some more posts and have changed some details BUT none of my posts and changes are published. I have tried many different ways but no success… I called third party companies to help me to fix this but they all charge me to get this fixed which I have no desire to pay anymore money as I already spent so much money on this website. Simple question: WHY none of my changes and new posts are not PUBLISHED…. Do I really have to go with other website developers like WIX?.Version: 17.4
✓ SuggestAllow user to click on a follower to go to their site. Also add a following list as well Do not mine user data for those who pay (ideally don’t do it at all).Version: 15.6
✓ Overwrites previous post!Posted from this app and then started another post. Saved the post I had just started because I had to do something else but when I reopened the app the draft post had REPLACED the previous post both in the app and on my web site. 45 minutes of blogging destroyed!. Needless to say, this is one app that has been removed from my iPad..Version: 0
✓ GlitchyI’d give this 5 stars if only it worked smoothly when creating new posts. It’s glitchy and keeps freezing. Takes me half an hour to write one paragraph..Version: 16.7
✓ UrghThis would be a really cool app if it wasn't for the fact the it is so confusing. Annoying and hardly functions properly. It won't even let me share my blog on Facebook it just freezes on the FB log in page. So disappointed..Version: 3.8.2
✓ Problems.I have had difficulty with this app. I wouldn’t rate it 5 stars for being user friendly. As outdated as Blogger was it still was easier to use than this. I’ve got a message in to help center, so let’s hope they can help. It created a clone site (or I inadvertently did—how could that happen?) that will not publish or preview. Now I realize why I had so much trouble posting. I’ve used it successfully for a while but recently I’ve realized that the info pages I’ve created show up instead of my current post. Anyway it works but I can’t say I’m thrilled, especially lately. Perhaps it got more sophisticated and I didn’t?.Version: 13.3
✓ App version is uselessAs an app, I fine WordPress more stress than it’s worth. I spend more time trying to log in to various aspects of it every time something updates - be it Wordpress itself, the app; or one of the plugins. I mostly use the app to keep an eye on stats and updates on the fly. For the umpteenth time, I can’t use jet pack as the login option is now not even a part of the app this time! (You have to get an email, switch out the app and go via the browser - this doesn’t register a login and there’s no where to input a password when you get back)..Version: 15.9
✓ GarbageGarbage.Version: 23.5
✓ WOW - I’m starting to believe this is a SCAMThis site intentionally makes every step unnecessarily difficult. It’s incredible! Now, when I signed up, I was prepared to be “tricked” into paying for something and then finding out that there’s some dumb process in order to receive a refund ... usually the amount is so low, most people just don’t feel like going through the “hassle”. This company ALSO has had me log in multiple times, get routed to the wrong page after clicking on their link upon looking up how to change my Primary Domain page... the page was similar so it was obviously intended to frustrate the poor soul to click on the link through their “Support” tab. I’ve received error messages that my purchase didn’t go through...Thought that everything I saved was deleted... This is just Day 1!! Seriously though, are you guys just bored? Making a profit just ain’t what it used to be? Get your stuff together..Version: 15.3
✓ Doesn’t upload from phoneDoing a travel blog on the road and can’t upload from iPhone have to do it on laptop using a hotspot from my phone. All photos on my phone so making process hard.Version: 17.7.1
✓ App reverts your draft posts to older versions without asking.It’s a NOPE for me. I needed to review some draft posts written by a member on my team, and the only time I had to do so was before bed, so I used the Wordpress app on my phone to look at the posts. I’d been told these posts were essentially ready to go, and I just needed to give them a quick once over. When I opened them they appeared unfinished and were missing entire paragraphs. Upon questioning, my team member told me it was probably just the app, and to look in a browser instead. I opened Chrome on my phone only to see the same unfinished posts. Horrified, he went back through the versions on his windows machine in Chrome, and was able to rescue his hours and hours of work. Apparently since I hadn’t used the iOS app in a while, it opened the three-months ago versions of these posts instead of the updates he wrote today. Not only that it made those the latest versions. Why an app would be set up to do that instead of fetching the latest content makes no sense. Wordpress in general is great as a platform. But the iOS phone app - HELLA NO. Deleting this foul app and will never use it again..Version: 20.3
✓ Not working on iPad, visual editor is blocked by black screenFrustrating. App redirects me to google chrome. I open to edit home page from template and the black screen covers 80% of the screen. How I’m supposed to use it?.Version: 22.7
✓ Anyone else having issues?Did the update this morning and since then can no longer access our website? Won't work with either Bluehost or WordPress and it's very frustrating.Version: 8.1
✓ Was Freezing When Updating Now WorksI deleted the app, reloaded it and it’s working. I recommend updating/saving often in case the below happens to you. I’ve upgraded my rating from a 1 to a 3. *** It is frustrating when I spend a good amount of time editing a post only to have the app freeze while updating. This results in losing all my corrections. I did a final edit on ten blogs last night and the app worked wonderfully. I was excited to have an easy way to update my work. My final edits are light and mostly entail changes to text and links. However, today I spent a half hour editing a blog and it froze when I tried to update it. I tried a couple more times by restarting my phone. It still froze. I checked my internet and signal connection they were top notch. Like iMovie and other programs that I never use anymore that crash and cost me valuable time, I will need to find another way to edit my WP blogs on the go. It would be awesome if it worked as I am a traveling musician. I have an iPhone 6s Plus should this make a difference..Version: 15.3
✓ I wish it worked better!I love the idea of the Wordpress app, and this one has the potential to be so amazing. I love being able to draft posts, reply to comments and check my stats. The app tends to be unreliable most of the time though. I have to copy my work often and save to my iPhone Notes because so many times I have drafted a post, hit ‘update’ and I’ll get an error and lose EVERYTHING. A lot of times it won’t let you upload pictures. There is an error stating the max allowed for a photo is “zero KB” which is pretty frustrating. In today’s world, people like to do everything from their phones, but this app DEFINITELY does not replace the computer experience. It’s unfortunate. 😔.Version: 9.8
✓ V4.6 has issues with multi-site statsVersion 4.6 seems to have introduced a bug with users like myself who have multiple Wordpress sites. When looking at site statistics all stats are the same for each site, with the stats shown being whichever site you launched the app with. A workaround is available by selecting the site you wish to view, shutting the app down and relaunching..Version: 15.5
✓ Better for programmers than for writersSigning in to Wordpress always presents challenges. You have to use the right version of the correct web browser (with all updates!) Unless you have the app on your phone. In that case, no effort to use the browser will succeed. Once the app finally lets you in, you get a “Switch to our new software with a different name” advertisement (more of a mandate or presidential proclamation) which forces you to load still more app package software … all to write a comment about a nice article you read… I refuse. I will recommend to my group via email that Wordpress and it’s associated Klingons be banished in lieu of something which doesn’t confound the readers and writers ability to communicate..Version: 23.0.1
✓ Why isn’t it updating to current site?I’ve been using this app for years and during a short break away from work needed to access it from phone but despite it being on the latest app version it isn’t showing the most current published pages??? Why is it not updating??? please help!.Version: 13.5.1
✓ Does not work at allI’ve manage the Wix app and it’s a big difference, you should check it out and get some ideas. Super fast, easy and you can post, find info, upload products, change descriptions, photos of your products, manage blog, check reports, statistics, and customers can buy from it very very easy. Everything from the App. Please I hope you can fix it properly or you’ll be loosing more customers..Version: 18.0
✓ Stats not showing up since last update..Since the last update, my stats aren’t showing at all. “An error occurred while trying to load the page. Please retry later.” Is what comes up. Please fix ASAP 😊.Version: 10.5.1
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