Word­Press for iPhone (and iPod Touch) is out today. It seems to work.

Installing Word­Press 2.6 and import­ing the posts from my Mov­able Type weblog turned out to be sur­pris­ingly easy.

In response to the gen­eral inad­e­quacy and unpleas­ant­ness of Mov­able Type, I’m look­ing at Word­Press again. I had orig­i­nally rejected it in favor of Mov­able Type when I was look­ing for a Radio User­land replace­ment, but that was in 2006. That’s plenty of time for it to have improved significantly.

Per­haps it would even be able to import my old Radio posts–something I could never get Mov­able Type to do.

The “upgrade” to Mov­able Type 4.12 seems to have killed style I was using, and made it impos­si­ble to put back–at least for me. I’ve been try­ing to find a solu­tion, but Mov­able Type has very lit­tle doc­u­men­ta­tion and its inter­face is a tan­gled mess.

My orig­i­nal motive for chang­ing ver­sions was to use that iPod Touch plu­gin, which does seem to be work­ing, but in ret­ro­spect it def­i­nitely wasn’t worthwhile.

Per­son­ally, I’d much rather use Con­ver­sant, but unfor­tu­nately it’s not some­thing I could get my web host­ing com­pany to install.

As an exper­i­ment, this post was writ­ten on an iPod Touch. It works pretty well, but tap­ping away on a tiny key­board isn’t very comfortable.

I decided to dis­able track­backs here, as they were 100% spam (and lots of it). I get plenty of com­ment spam too, but there are also occa­sional legit­i­mate com­ments, so I’m leav­ing that on (although with an authen­ti­ca­tion fea­ture enabled).

I’ve man­aged to upgrade my instal­la­tion of Mov­able Type to 3.31. The software’s ori­gins in the user-hostile Unix/Open Source com­mu­nity are par­tic­u­larly obvi­ous when try­ing to upgrade.

The “Sub­scribe to this blog’s feed” link was bro­ken, due to the default tem­plate for the atom.xml file being miss­ing. I recre­ated it, and the sub­scribe link is work­ing now.

A bit of search­ing turned up a Mov­able Type Style Con­test with over 100 dif­fer­ent themes cre­ated by var­i­ous con­tes­tants and avail­able for down­load. After try­ing sev­eral, I decided to use this one, called “Com­ing Home.” Note that I didn’t take the photo of the boat.

To my dis­may, it turns out that the Radio User­Land tool I found for export­ing posts in a for­mat that Mov­able Type could import doesn’t actu­ally work. It pro­duces exported posts, but after spend­ing hours FTPing them to my server I found that the were appar­ently not exported in the cor­rect for­mat. Hope­fully I can fix that myself.