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Editorial iOS Upload Images to WordPress Workflow

April 17, 2014 by Jack Zimmermann 8 Comments

Update: A newer, better version has been created. You can download it here.

 

 

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I use the excellent iPad app Editorial as my preferred text editor. I want to be able to upload images directly from Editorial to WordPress, using xmlrpc, so the images ends up in the media gallery, the files in the correct folders, thumbnails made and a Markdown link with the correct URL is created. So I’ve written a workflow you can download that gives you the ability to select some text (that will be the alt text for the image), and either upload the image in the original size, or resize the width to the dimension you specify. After the image is uploaded, the Markdown image code is inserted. Another good thing is that you have the ability to name the image file, which I haven’t seen in other solutions, like in Poster App, where you get the cryptical iOS internal name of the image. Not so SEO friendly. The easiest solution was to use the wordpress_xmlrpc module, so that needs to be installed before you can use the workflow! but I’ve written a guide about how to install the module/library here. If you forget to install it beforehand, you will get this dialog box with instructions on how to install it if you start the workflow.

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Filed Under: iOS Tagged With: Blog, Blogging, Editorial, iOS, iPad, Markdown, Wordpress

Blog Post Directly from iOS Safari to Poster App Using Pythonista Script

March 14, 2013 by Jack Zimmermann 1 Comment

Poster Icon imageI want to be able to share interesting web pages on my WordPress blog using iOS directly from Safari using a bookmark and a Pythonista Python script. The script takes the URL of the page, any text you copied and the page title, formats it in Markdown and creates a new post in Poster App automatically.

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Filed Under: Blogging, iOS, Wordpress Tagged With: Blogging, iOS, Programming, Python, Pythonista

MultiMarkdown – iPad Supported Apps

December 3, 2012 by Jack Zimmermann 3 Comments

iPad and MultiMarkdown Supported Apps

Updated 2014–07–06

Since I originally wrote this article, much has happened. The Elements app looks like it’s been discontinued because I couldn’t find it in the AppStore, so I have removed it from the comparison table. I’ve added my new favourite iOS text editor, Editorial which is an amazing app for configure your text workflow just the way you like it. IA Writer has added support for MultiMarkdown so I added it to the list as well.


Trying to use MultiMarkdown for writing this blog on an iPad has been frustrating. Just trying to find a writing app that supports tables, footnotes, internal links and tables drives you crazy. One App can do some of the things right, others do nothing right. So here is my test of the Markdown Writing Apps I have available, and how they compare feature-wise.

I’ve moved over all my writing to Markdown, just because it’s a great way of writing for different media. But I need to use the more advanced version MultiMarkdown to be able to handle internal links, cross-references, more advanced image links, footnotes, tables and bibliography. So I did a Markdown test document with all the stuff I need, and checked if the App could handle it and generating working HTML. So here it goes.

MultiMarkdown Support
iOS App Cross-Ref Images Footnotes Tables Bibliography Definitions
Byword 2.1.6[1] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Phraseology 2.0.4[1] No Yes[2][3] Yes No No No
Poster 2.1.1[4] No Yes[2] No No No No
Notesy 2.5.3[1] No Yes[2][3] No No No No
Writing Kit 3.9.2[1] No Yes[2][3] Yes No No No
Drafts iPad 3.6.3[1] No Yes[2][3] Yes No No No
IA Writer v2.0[1] No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Editorial 2[1] No Yes[2][3] Yes No No No

Conclusion

So if you need some or all of these features, have a look in the table and make your choice. I like to write in Editorial when blogging because of the workflow I added for uploading images and the ability to export to any app using URL scheme. When writing other texts I usually use IA Writer or Byword. Thankfully the apps for iOS isn’t expensive and most of them can sync via Dropbox, so switching between apps isn’t the end of the world.

I’ll try to keep this list updated whenever an update is available.


  1. Includes SmartyPants support.  ↩

  2. Doesn’t display image caption.  ↩

  3. Messed up when having bold text in alt-text.  ↩

  4. This app is no longer for sale. WordPress has bought it. It’s still updated for those who bought it.  ↩

Filed Under: iOS Tagged With: Blogging, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Markdown, MultiMarkdown, Wordpress

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