Minor 0.7.1 Maintenance Release
We’ve pushed a small update to fix a couple UI issues on Symbian touchscreen devices, plus some improvements to how the location geo-tagging feature stores the coordinates in posts.
For Maemo users, we’ve also enabled Portrait mode in the UI, so you should be able to flip your N900 around (with the keyboard slider closed) to trade some width for height. It’s a fun little feature, but unfortunately there’s no on-screen keyboard in Portrait mode.
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The S60 build is availble as a self-signed SIS package, and a smart installer which will automatically install the Qt dependencies if needed. The maemo build is available from the extras-devel repository.
S60 Smart Installer: WordPress_0_7_1_selfsigned_installer.sis (initial install)
S60 SIS package: WordPress_0_7_1_selfsigned.sis (upgrade)
N900: Install wordpress from extras-devel
Andre, 
futusaber, 
terom, and 4 others are discussing. 
Hotzigetty 1:53 pm on July 11, 2010 Permalink |
How can I remove the user data? Unable to delete or edit a blog. And I can’t find wordpress data in /home/user
terom 1:31 pm on July 13, 2010 Permalink |
You can dpkg –purge wordpress and re-install it, or find the data.txt under ~/.local/share/data/.wordpress/.
Are you seeing some bugs with the list of blogs?
Hotzigetty 2:07 pm on July 13, 2010 Permalink |
Yup. 1) When i try to switch between blogs it just goes to a blank screen and dies.
2) Sometimes it fails to sync local drafts with drafts online. same with status: I tried publishing a post, the status said published but it wasnt.
3) Tried removing one blog, again, the app shut down. after a day and few attempts to switch blogs, the blog i was trying to delete was finally removed.
4) hyperlinks and photo uploads show up as failed html comands online.
5) unable to add new blogs without the http:// .. (mentioned this because the post says that’s part of the changelog)
otherwise its awesome!!
terom 3:31 pm on July 14, 2010 Permalink |
The blogs list sometimes shows up as empty, but I’ve never noticed the app crash there, though.
Check that you haven’t set a Published date in the future. It causes the post to show up as published, but it doesn’t show up on your blog until the set date arrives.
Multi-blog handling isn’t as robust as it could be, so this is a possibility. We’ll see if we can manage to reproduce this.
You mean as raw HTML? This might be some kind of issue with how the server handles the post, so what version of WordPress are you running on your site? Any plugins related to editing?
Are you sure that you’re using the latest 0.7.1 version from extras-devel? Check the Options > About box to be sure.
If so, what are you entering as the URL, and what error do you get? Qt might be guessing wrong, e.g. if your hostname begins with ftp.
Hotzigetty 3:54 pm on July 14, 2010 Permalink |
Yup running 0.7.1 …
Yup raw html… WP 3, without any editing plugins..
anything i can do to enable logging and send you guys the data>?
Michael Kean 2:04 pm on July 15, 2010 Permalink |
I’ve just got it up and running on the Nokia E51 – an old phone by today’s standards with quite a small, portrait screen and number / navi pad only.
There are some usability issues on this phone. When first setting it up, there is no way to tell whether you’re on the save or cancel button, but eventually you can fluke it. (Down once gets to save, down again seems to get to cancel – got plenty of practise typing the URL and cred’s in…)
Occasionally a menu of options will appear, but quite often it’s not possible to navigate through this menu.
Dialog boxes such as enable XML can’t be clicked and the app has to be force exited.
Once it’s set up, it seems to be possible to write a new post without too much drama.
terom 3:03 pm on July 15, 2010 Permalink |
Yeah, the 0.6.9x and 0.7.x series UIs are more or less non-functional and completely untested on non-touchscreen devices; see our previous posts on the issue.
We’re busy working on improving the UI’s keyboard navigation (primarily for non-touch Symbian devices, but touchscreen users with hardware arrow keys should benefit as well) and we’ve already got some improvements lined up for the next release. You can expect to see a 0.7.2 release tomorrow with those improvements, but e.g. the dialogs and all the softkeys probably won’t yet be fully functional.
We weren’t really expecting anyone to use the 0.7 releases so far on non-touch devices, so I’m kind of surprised you even got as far as to writing a blog post
terom 9:06 am on July 16, 2010 Permalink |
0.7.2 will be delayed until next week, because our Symbian developer is on an unexpected sick leave today.
Michael Kean 2:24 pm on July 15, 2010 Permalink |
Edit to last: It appears that one or more required keys to operate this app are not supported on the E51′s keypad. The direction pad only works for up and down it seems. It’s possible, with persistence, to write a blog post; but it’s not possible to ‘publish’ it.
I’ll wait until my Bluetooth keyboard arrives and try again. In the mean time, here’s an example screenshot of the E51 and how it gets stuck
(Weird looking Picasa Image URL.)
Michael Kean 3:37 pm on July 15, 2010 Permalink |
Aah
I read that about the E series, but I didn’t twig that the issue was non-touch related. I’ll wait… In the mean time I managed to get WordMobi to work, once your app told me I hadn’t turned on RPC XML. (WM just gave a cryptic error instead.) My main blog’s still a B2Evolution one so I’m a bit of a n00b on WordPress, and the ability to interact via Symbian is the catalyst for change.
Ara 7:32 pm on July 15, 2010 Permalink |
I can’t connect to my blog, http://krte.org on my Nokia 5530 Xpress Music. Anyone having the same problem? I don’t think the 5530 is the cause since it works with my wordpress.com blog.
I uninsalled and installed again twice. First said host not found and now says error downloading
terom 8:51 am on July 16, 2010 Permalink |
You can see the error if you try to visit your xmlrpc.php URL – “412 Precondition Failed”. It appears to be a configuration issue with mod_security on your hosting server – try reading the WordPress support site or contact your hosting provider for help (“412 Precondition failed for WordPress xmlrpc.php requests, related to mod_security?”).
Andre 11:28 pm on July 19, 2010 Permalink |
hi, i got my mum an n97 mini so she can use it on her bike travel through europe. we updated the firmware to 12.0.110 – now i understand we need to install the qt framework which is 10mb or did this already come with the 12.0.110 firmware? will we run in to some ram problems if we install this? and what do we have to be aware off? thanks for your help and for developing this client.
futusaber 7:49 am on July 20, 2010 Permalink |
Hi, the smart installer package will automatically check if Qt is installed, and download only the necessary packages.
There shouldn’t be any issues with RAM, as long as you don’t have too many other programs running. One thing that you should take into account is that the client will run faster if you install it on the phone memory (vs. memory card).
André 4:45 pm on July 20, 2010 Permalink |
thanks a lot futusaber, i have installed it on my n900 (version 0.7) it is amazing and i wrote my first post attaching a pic -> congratulations
two things i noticed.. it does not save the wordpress api key and when i go to the weekly stats it crashes -> no response needed for me but thought it would probably help you….
Now off to install it on my mums N97 mini