There’s a new desktop app for WordPress blogs, this time from the good folks at Automattic, the people behind WordPress.com. I know many of you have heard me say that WordPress.com and WordPress are two entirely separate entities, so let me clear this up right now. You can use this app with both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress(.org) blogs! Despite the app’s name, you can connect your self-hosted WordPress blog to WordPress.com with Jetpack and it’s Manage module, allowing you to work with your self-hosted WordPress blog in both WordPress.com and the app.
The new desktop app is mostly a wrapper for Calypso, the new WordPress.com interface packed full of the latest web technology. Calypso is where the real fun lies, conceived as an answer to “What if we rebuilt WordPress from scratch today?” It’s fast, responsive, and open source, with real-time notifications, the ability to work with multiple sites through the same interface, and a thoroughly re-built editor.
The desktop app brings Calypso to you in a browser-free app, free of occasionally troublesome browser extensions and poor support of the latest web technologies from certain browsers I dare not name, leveraging the processing power and local storage of your computer. It’s a whole new way to experience WordPress, packed into one convenient application.
Try the new WordPress.com Desktop App today, or even just Calypso at WordPress.com itself, you won’t be disappointed. 🙂
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2 responses to “The WordPress.com Desktop App”
The app seems nice, but where’s the spell check?
Yep, we’ve got that in the works, looks like something is up with Node and Electron, conflicting with the OS’s native spell check.