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Russell G. on "Any plans for offline image support?"

Russell G. — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:51:14 +0000

I know this has been requested before, but I wonder if there are any current plans to support adding images to a post while offline?

I'm planning a trip to a foreign country, where I'll only have internet access occasionally while on WiFi. I can compose a post if it's only text, but currently there's no way to add an image without the app being able to upload the image to the server before adding the image tag to the post. I can understand how it'd be more complicated, because the actual image filename on the server isn't known until the file is uploaded, but I wonder if a placeholder name could be used until the post and all attached images were uploaded to the server -- then the placeholder image tags could be updated with the actual filenames.

I'm sure this has been discussed - are there any other issues making it more complicated than what I'm thinking?

Thanks,
Russell

Frank Klein on "Draft revisions on device"

Frank Klein — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:20:51 +0000

Losing posts sucks, and I can understand that you are upset about this issue.

There is a ticket on iOS Trac about this problem: http://ios.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1498 and the developers are currently working on it.

A fix will be available soon.

lycanthrosexual on "Draft revisions on device"

lycanthrosexual — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:20:16 +0000

I was also wondering if this has been implemented even though this post was originally made a year or so ago. I find myself using the Blogpress app or even Pages for iOS in place of the Wordpress app unless I am working in a place with an active internet connection.

xanteen on "Draft revisions on device"

xanteen — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:26:58 +0000

xanteen on "Draft revisions on device"

xanteen — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:26:23 +0000

I just lost several hours of work by loading a draft originally created on my site and editing it while on a plane. When we landed and my iPad came out of airplane mode, the draft failed to update and my edits were lost.

Is there some log file or something with any part of my draft someplace on my iPad? This was a substantial amount of work.

stjung on "Draft revisions on device"

stjung — Mon, 28 May 2012 21:09:17 +0000

You need to implement some sort of way to revise saved drafts on the device. I lost a few hours of work yesterday because I went to edit a few posts in my car (without internet connection). When I arrived at a place with internet, I refreshed the app to send the changes to the WP servers. However, it didn't show the changes I made when I logged into the dashboard. Moreover, when I clicked Edit in the dashboard for each post, it showed the original (empty) post, and then everything I wrote on the iOS app disappeared and left only the empty post.

I checked the revisions history in the web dashboard, but there was no sign of all that I had written, so I had to write everything all over again.

Oliver on "Multimedia blogs while offline"

Oliver — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:13:58 +0000

It's not possible to even draft a blog entry with multimedia content while offline. I use this while I am traveling and I am often not near wifi and without a dataplan when I have time to sit down and write my blog. This is an important feature in my opinion.

Lerroy on "Local post"

Lerroy — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 03:30:04 +0000

Click on the cog wheel at the bottom of the post in the first option choose draft it's not local butcwill Dave locally until you have internet where it will be added to the site but not public

So bottom left of post choose the cogged wheel first box choose draft

codeman on "Local post"

codeman — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:33:57 +0000

Hello,

A while ago I used wordpress to update my blog during my travels. As I was out of the country and 3G roaming is pretty expensive, I mostly didn't have internet connection. But I wrote my posts "offline" on trains or so, and I was able to choose "Local draft" as a type. Later in a hotel I was able to change the post just to published and it started uploading.

Now I've updated my Wordpress for IOS version to a newer version (2.8) and I can't find this "Local Draft" function anymore. Does anybody where I can find it, do I need to enable or do to something for it? Or is this function removed (and if so, why, because it was very useful).

Thanks!

Isaac Keyet on "[Critic] Post lost if "Publish" is tapped in Airplane Mode"

Isaac Keyet — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 04:01:31 +0000

Okay, thanks for the heads up. From my most recent testing these aspects of the app have proven to be unstable. We're moving the app over to CoreData completely, it should help with the data management in general.

bfred.it on "[Critic] Post lost if "Publish" is tapped in Airplane Mode"

bfred.it — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:15:49 +0000

Thank you.
Also, I noticed that a post I had previously saved, popped up in a later use of the application (probably after a device reset), while a second one, which I hadn't saved, never appeared.

Isaac Keyet on "[Critic] Post lost if "Publish" is tapped in Airplane Mode"

Isaac Keyet — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:11:25 +0000

This is a bad user experience for sure. I created a Trac ticket to resolve this, hopefully we'll have time to do it in 2.6.4 - otherwise we should definitely fix it in upcoming versions of the WP for iOS app.

bfred.it on "[Critic] Post lost if "Publish" is tapped in Airplane Mode"

bfred.it — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:25:46 +0000

I noticed that the Save button works when the phone is offline, while the Publish welcomes me with a plethora of popups telling me that I'm offline and by discarding the post completely, even though it had already been saved locally.
I'm using the latest WP for iOS version on the App Store, on an iPhone 3GS 4.2.1