This is the first post I’ve written entirely on my iPad. Thanks to iPadOS 13 (which was released today) and other apps stepping up their game, it’s actually a realistic option for me now.
Not that it’s easy, mind you.
It’s time consuming and clunky.
Take getting an image to appear in this post, for example. First I have to open the image in Adobe Lightroom for iPad so I can adjust it a bit. THEN I have to save it to my iPad so I can open it in Image Resize, because Lightroom DOESN’T ALLOW YOU TO FUCKING SPECIFY PIXEL DIMENSIONS WHEN YOU CROP A PHOTO. Once I crop it To 1200 × 800, I then have to save it to FTPManager Pro so I can upload it to my blog. It sounds simpler than it actually is. And it doesn’t end there. I then have to open up my WordPress admin panel to write the actual post. But since I want to use images where I put them instead of where WordPress wants them, I have to copy and paste code from old entries into new entries.
Like these photos of Jenny going after a fly in the window this morning...
She’s adorable, I know.
Eventually (hopefully) one of these days it will be a more streamlined process to edit and upload images and write posts. I’m guessing it took me three times longer to post this on my iPad than it would have on my MacBook Pro. With practice, perhaps I could get it down to twice the time? I dunno. Right now I’m just happy I can do it. An iPad is a lot easier to lug around than a laptop.
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I was actually blogging from my iPad back in 2012 using a third party app called Blogsy but then the app went unsupported after a couple years, so I couldn’t do much. About three years ago, though, Typepad finally created a mobile web interface that works pretty great for blogging and I’ve used it almost exclusively ever since.
The WordPress web interface is actually quite nice. WordPress recently released a gorgeous new editor, but I can’t use it… it alters my old hand-coded entries badly. So I vastly prefer using MarsEdit. But that’s getting difficult now that social media and searches require a bunch of tags and codes that are not supported by any external editor I’ve found.
I expect you could find or create a Shortcut to take care of the resize and upload. Might need another app like Secure ShellFish. You may even be able to trigger such a Shortcut from the Share action in Lightroom though that’s assuming quite a bit.
Boy I hope so. Until then, posting with images on iPad is a disaster. Maybe once apps catch up to iOS 13?