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Lots of us have blogs, and even if you have a site, and use a blogging platform such as WordPress, just like we do then you might just find this of interest.

There is a WordPress app for the iPad that you can download, but it’s a bit tricky if you have your own domain instead of a wordpress site.  Finicky and frustrating.  Trust me, I’ve tried it.

But now there’s a new app designed to take all of that away from blogging on a tablet.

In addition to writing stuff here I also do stuff on other sites and blogs under different names.  Always have, and probably will until I get kicked off them all.  Most of the time I’ll publish from my laptop or iMac, but I’m finding that I can do more and more with just using my iPad. Most of the blogs and sites I’m involved with use the WordPress engine and while I’ve used the official WordPress App, I find it lacking in several areas for formatting my posts the way I like.

I’m sometimes prone to being picky when it comes to image placement. Until now my favorite iPad blogging App had been BlogPress and while BlogPress is a GREAT APP, I’m actually blown away by the capabilities of Blogsy. Blogsy offers a slew of editing and formatting features that make me feel as if I’m editing using the native WordPress interface.

While this could just as easily be achieved in the Safari browser, where Blogsy becomes the clear winner is when it comes to inserting media such as images and videos. As you would expect you can import media from your iPad Camera Roll or Albums. All of the blogging apps do this. However, Blogsy takes it up several notches by letting you drag and drop images and videos from your online sharing sites such as Flickr, Picasa, and even YouTube. Yes you can drag and drop YouTube videos into your posts! Sweet!

HTML Editing and more

While Blogsy offers a nice graphical user interface (UI) for editing your blog posts, if there there is ever anything you need to insert into the HTML directly you can access it with the tap of a button. If you need to look something up or grab a link for you post, there’s no need to leave the App as it has a web browser built-in. Blogsy supports WordPress, Blogger, Posterous, TypePad, MovableType, Drupal and Joomla. It also includes TextExpander support.

To finish

While Blogsy does offer very impressive editing and image handling features there is one thing keeping me from being able to use this App 100% of the time. I haven’t been able to find a way to use the custom fields and other features of my WordPress template while in Blogsy. For example, I would have been able to write this post in Blogsy and bring in the images, but I would have still needed to complete the post in a browser in order to add things like the Featured image and to fill out the details panel at the bottom of this post. These are custom fields in my WordPress template that don’t show up in Blogsy (or at least I haven’t found them). Even with that being the case I could use Blogsy to do the bulk of the work while on the go and finish the few little details that Blogsy couldn’t do either on my computer or in Safari on the iPad.

You can get Blogsy for iPad for less than a fiver here from the 

Here’s a very nifty little tutorial/review video for it.

For those of you who blog and or website yourselves silly on a daily basis, and if you have an iPad, you should grab this app.  I hoighly recommend it.