WordPress – Website Builder

Automattic, Inc

About this app

WordPress for Android puts the power of web publishing in your pocket. It’s a website creator and so much more!

CREATE
- Give your big ideas a home on the web. WordPress for Android is a website builder and a blog maker.
- Pick the right look and feel from a wide selection of WordPress themes, then customize with photos, colors, and fonts so it’s uniquely you.
- Built-in Quick Start tips guide you through the setup basics to set your new website up for success.

PUBLISH
- Create updates, stories, photo essays announcements -- anything! -- with the editor.
- Bring your posts and pages to life with photos and video from your camera and albums, or find the perfect image with the in-app collection of free-to-use pro photography.
- Save ideas as drafts and come back to them when your muse returns, or schedule new posts for the future so your site is always fresh and engaging.
- Add tags and categories to help new readers discover your posts, and watch your audience grow.

STATS
- Check your website’s stats in real time to keep track of the activity on your site.
- Track which posts and pages get the most traffic over time by exploring daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly insights.

NOTIFICATIONS
- Get notifications about comments, likes, and new followers so you can see people reacting to your website as it happens.
- Reply to new comments as they show up to keep the conversation flowing and acknowledge your readers.

READER
- Explore thousands of topics by tag, discover new authors and organizations, and follow the ones who pique your interest.
- Hang on to the posts that fascinate you with the Save for later feature.

SHARE
- Set up automated sharing to tell your followers on social media when you publish a new post.
- Add social sharing buttons to your posts so your visitors can share them with their network, and let your fans become your ambassadors.

Why WordPress?

There are a lot of blogging services, website builders, and social networks out there. Why create your website with WordPress?

WordPress powers over a third of the web. It’s used by hobby blogs, businesses of all sizes, online stores, even the biggest news sites on the internet. Odds are that many of your favorite websites are running on WordPress.

With WordPress, you own your own content. Other social networks treat you as a commodity, and assume ownership of the content you post. But with WordPress anything you publish is yours, and you can take it with you wherever you’d like.

Whether you need a website builder to create your website, or a simple blog maker, WordPress can help. It gives you beautiful designs, powerful features, and the freedom to build anything you want.

California users privacy notice: https://wp.me/Pe4R-d/#california-consumer-privacy-act-ccpa.

Ratings and reviews

This is a really close mirror to the desktop site, so very good and easy on the user. The paragraph editor translates poorly though -- you can't just open the app and type in plain text, and formatting is not contained in the text box like in most apps. For instance, you have to change the whole paragraph type to "list" to get a bulleted list. The formatting menus for each paragraph are hidden because they are smaller components of a text box. Really annoying and a hindrance to simply writing.

There are certain features and functions on the desktop and website versions that aren't on the app, but there is no indication on the app about the functions that don't work on it. I found out by running into a roadblock and eventually doing a long, involved troubleshooting chat with WP admin. They kept asking me irrelevant questions about my situation until finally, they handed my case over to the app department, which instantly recognized the problem.

Totally inept app. Won't let you edit the home page unless you change themes. The website browser editor is arbitrary without basic tools for alignment. You want text over am image great! It will totally reformat the image and realign everything on the page. Oh wait you can TRY to correct the HTML directly, but it will always complain. Took me two hours to finely get it to center an image because of the missing basic tools. Definitely not WYSIWYG more like blockhead and broke!

What's new

Say hello to our shiny new in-app landing screen! It almost makes you want to look at it all day and not publish anything new. Almost.