Some time ago I downloaded the WordPress app for my smartphone in hopes of using it as an aid to blogging. I already used it for a post on Sober Catholic and it worked just fine.

Now I’m using it here for a test post to see if I can blog while offline and save as draft. It worked, the post was saved locally. I can edit it later and post it online.

I have no Internet at work unless I use mobile data, which I do as little as possible due to cost. But I do have plenty of downtime in between my duties; normally I read but with the addition of this app, I can now blog. Even if I keep them as drafts until I get home, this can be an improvement in my blogging efforts. Many times I get inspired at work to blog about this or that, on here or on Sober Catholic but by the time I get home, meh. The stuff remains as semi-legible scibbles on note paper (there’s a nice stack on the coffee table of things to eventually put to digital ink.) For those who may want to point out that over a year ago I consecrated my blogs to the Blessed Virgin Mary and thus I should be posting madly away, just a couple of things: “Nature vs Grace,” and maybe the consecration is working out just fine, measuring it by productivity is incorrect as “productivity” is a Protestant virtue. 😉 But now I can happily blog away. Just whip out my phone, write a draft, edit as the day goes on, and post it upon connectivity. (Oh, great. Another blowhard online using up electrons.)

One thing I enjoy about the WordPress app is that, along with the ability to totally manage and administer multiple blogs (or just one), you can comment on other people’s blogs as long as they are also using WordPress. Either a self-hosted blog using WordPress software or hosted on wordpress.com. This adds a social function to blogs that may serve as a limited means around proprietary social media like Facebook, et al. For those who enjoy using Facebook, etc., to vent, rant, philosophize and pontificate post observations on things, this can be a way to liberate yourself from the possibility of censorship with its accompanying restrictions and problems. Just start a blog. Get your friends and cohorts to do the same. Post your rants observations. Follow each other’s blogs. Comment on each others’ posts using the “Conversations” feature. Let the fun begin.

The mobile app is available in the usual app stores; the desktop version from here.

(Note: this was written on the smartphone app and slightly edited later at home. Possibilities…)

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