Create a new page

How to create a new page on your WordPress.com or WordPress.org blog using BlogPad Pro for iPad

Step 1

Tap the blue Pages icon, then in the pages menu tap the + button to create a new post.

Step 2

Enter your page title (you can always change this by editing your page settings afterwards).

You can also edit the following settings: allow comments, allow pingbacks, publish date, post status, visibility, post format and excerpt. The only information you need to add at this stage is the title.

You can change any of these settings at a later date by selecting ‘edit page settings’.

Tip: leave the page status as draft until you are ready to publish your page.

Once you have added your title tap Save to create your page.

Step 3

Once the page has been created the new page opens on your screen ready for you to start writing.

How to create a new post offline and then upload it

Dec20 by BlogPad Pro for WordPress

How to create a new post when you’re working offline or without an internet connection

You can set BlogPad Pro to be ‘offline’, for example if you’re out and about and don’t want to use up too much data.

To do this tap on the green ‘Settings’ button on the bottom left.

This is what the settings button looks like:

The first option you see is ‘Set Application Offline’, change this to ON then tap ‘done’.

2. Now select the blog you want to work on by tapping on the blue Blogs icon and selecting your blog

3. You should now see the posts screen. Tap on the + icon to add a new post

4. You’ll see a message like this telling you that you’re working offline. Just tap OK or ‘Don’t show again’ if you don’t want to see this message every time you save.

5. Now you can create your post as normal.

Note the yellow notification badge in the menu next your Posts icon telling you that you have 1 post which needs uploading to live.

6. I have added some text and a picture from my iPad camera roll. Tap the save button (top right) to save your changes. This DOES NOT publish your post, it just saves your content (unless you’re working ONline and your post is already published, then the save button will update your live post).

7. Once your post is finished and you have saved. Go to post settings and tap ‘Close Editor’.

8. Once you get back online you can upload your post. (If you changed your settings to “set BlogPad Pro to be ‘offline'” you’ll need to switch this bach OFF).

The notification badge shows that I just have 1 post that I need to upload. To upload a single post tap on it, and in ‘Post Options’ select ‘Send To Live’.

This updates your content, but will only publish the post IF you changed your post status to ‘published’

9. If you have more than 1 post to upload tap on the ‘sync’ icon and within ‘Post Sync Options’ select the bottom option ‘Upload Posts To Live’.

This should upload any changes or new posts along with any images in them.

10. You’ll know that your upload was successful when the yellow notification badge disappears, meaning your offline content has been uploaded.

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View your blog’s tags

Dec4 by BlogPad Pro for WordPress

How to see your WordPress blog’s tags on BlogPad Pro for iPad

You can view all your tags by tapping on the green ‘Tags’ button in the left menu. If you have lots of tags on your site (and I think most people probably do) you might find it easier to search for tag you’re looking for in the search box.

Another way of viewing your blog’s tags is by sorting them. You have the choice of sorting either by Number of Posts (Most First), Number of Posts (Least First), Tag Name (A-Z) or Tag Name (Z-A).

You can also view all posts related to a particular tag by tapping on the tag and the selecting ‘View Posts’.

This takes you to the ‘Posts’ list filtered by the tag you selected. Just tap the ‘x’ to clear this selection and show all posts again.

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Downloading your blog for working offline

Dec3 by BlogPad Pro for WordPress

How to download your WordPress blog if you’re going to be working offline or in airplane mode.

If you’re going on a plane journey or know you’re going to be blogging offline you might want to download part or all of your blog to give you access to your posts, pages, comments or image library while you’re offline.

Downloading Posts

To download posts tap on the orange Posts button in the left menu and then tap ‘Post Sync Options‘. Select how many posts you would like to retrieve and then tap ‘Get Posts‘

Downloading a post will automatically retrieve any images, tags or categories used in that post.

Please note: If you want to have the full content of each page available offline make sure the ‘Only get Post Titles’ box is unchecked.

Also, if you are downloading a large number of posts it could take some time and you may prefer to do this while you’re connected via a wireless network.

Downloading pages

To download pages tap the blue ‘Pages’ button in the left menu, then tap the Page Sync Options, select the number of posts to download and tap ‘Get Pages‘

Downloading media

When you download posts and pages any media items used in them are automatically downloaded into the BlogPad Pro media library on your iPad.

If you want to download more media items tap on the yellow Media icon in the left menu, tap ‘Media Sync Options’ and select the number of images or media you would like to download, then tap ‘Get Media’.

If you are downloading a large number of media items you may prefer to do this while you’re connected via a wireless network.

Downloading comments:

To download the latest comments or pingbacks/trackbacks to BlogPad Pro tap the pink ‘Comments‘ button in the left menu, tap ‘Comment Sync Options’ and select the number of comments you wish to retrieve. Then tap ‘Get Comments‘.

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Reading the blogs you subscribe to at WordPress.com

Dec2 by BlogPad Pro for WordPress

How to read the your WordPress.com blog subscriptions through BlogPad Pro for iPad

If you’re an avid blogger, odds are you love reading other people’s blogs too. If you subscribe to their blog feeds through WordPress you can easily catch up on the latest blog posts in the ‘Reading Section’.

Just tap on the light purple ‘Read’ button in the left nav to see the latest news from the blogs you follow (below). As you can see you only get the headlines, to read the full post tap the arrow to the right of the post summary.

You can also browse WordPress blogs by topic – for example all recent posts tagged with the word ‘iPad’ or ‘Fashion’.

To change to this view, tap on the grey icon in the ‘Read’ bar and you’ll see these options (below): Freshly Pressed, Blogs I Follow, Recommended Blogs, Posts I Like and the topics that you’ve set up.

Just tap on the topic you want to start reading.

Note: This feature only works when you are logged into your WordPress.com account. Self hosted WordPress accounts do not support this feature.

You can find out more information about managing your blog subscriptions through WordPress here.

You might also find these links useful:

Our WYSIWYG Editor

Dec2 by BlogPad Pro for WordPress

Blog Pad Pro has a built-in WYSIWYG editor for editing your WordPress blog on your iPad. Perfect for everyone who hasn’t got the time, inclination or expertise to write all their WordPress blog posts in html!

Of course you can always edit the html code of your page or post too, but the visual editor is there to make writing each post easy allowing you to concentrate on what you do best, the blog content.

Undo	Redo	Bold	Italics	Strikethrough
Underline	Left align	Centre align	Right align	Justify
Bulleted list	Numbered list	Block quote	More button	Add image
Add/edit link	Remove link	View/edit html	Soft return	Save

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View your blog categories

Dec1 by BlogPad Pro for WordPress

How to see your WordPress blog categories with BlogPad Pro for iPad

To see the categories on your WordPress blog tap the purple ‘Categories’ button in the left menu. You then see a list of the categories you have used. You can scroll through these, or search using the search box.

You can also sort them by name, either A-Z or Z-A.

You can also select a category and delete it (see below)

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Syncing posts and pages

Nov30 by BlogPad Pro for WordPress

How to sync posts and pages to your live blog if you have been working offline using BlogPad Pro for iPad

If you have been working offline or without an internet connection you will need to upload your changes when you’re back online.

An easy way of seeing this is the notification badge which shows in the left menu (you can see below that there is 1 post which needs uploading).

You can use ‘Filter‘ to see which posts or pages have been changed. Just tap ‘Sync Required‘ to show the posts which need uploading

This is the filtered list of posts which need syncing – there was only 1 post in this case.

If you just want to upload 1 post you can tap on it to view Post Options and then select ‘Send to Live‘

If you have more than 1 post to send to live tap the sync button > Post Sync Options then tap Upload Posts to Live.

When you upload a post it will automatically upload any tags, categories and images related to that post. You can also sync your whole blog to live if you have made changes to comments, posts and pages.

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Filtering and sorting

Nov30 by BlogPad Pro for WordPress

How you can use search, filter and sort options to help manage a large WordPress blog with lots of posts and pages using BlogPad Pro for iPad

When you’ve been blogging for a while, it can be difficult to find that post or page you’re looking for. To make it easier, we’ve not only added a search (which searches the post or page titles) but also a filtering and sorting.

So, what does Filter do?

If you tap the Filter option, you can select which post statuses you would like to view. For example if you just want to view published posts select ‘Published’ and tap ‘Update’.

Note: The ‘Unknown’ status is used when you have chosen to just download post titles. The post status isn’t retrieved as part of this.

Now only published posts are shown in the list. To remove the filter tap ‘Clear’ and the ‘Update’. You can also select multiple statuses.

Sorting

‘Sorting’ changes the order your posts or pages are displayed. You can choose from: Date (most recent first), Date (earliest first), Title (A-Z) and Title (Z-A)

Any of the searching, filtering or sorting options can be combined to make it easy for you to search through hundreds of posts or pages!

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Removing a WordPress blog from your dashboard

Nov29 by BlogPad Pro for WordPress

How to remove a WordPress.com or WordPress.org blog from your ‘Manage Blogs’ dashboard in BlogPad Pro for iPad.

Please note that this doesn’t delete your blog, it just removes it from the app. You can always add the blog again if you change your mind.

Step 1:

Tap on the Manage Blogs icon on the top left of your screen.

Steps 2 & 3

Tap the arrow alongside the blog you want to delete from BlogPad Pro. This launches the ‘Blog Options’ menu. Select ‘Delete Blog’.

Step 4

The app will warn you that you are about to remove this blog from BlogPad Pro. Tap ‘OK’.

Step 5

Your blog has now been removed from the ‘Manage Blogs’ list. You can remove another blog or re-add the blog you just deleted (or just carry on blogging with your other blogs!).

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Create a new page

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How to create a new post offline and then upload it

View your blog’s tags

Downloading your blog for working offline

Downloading Posts

Downloading pages

Downloading media

Downloading comments:

Our WYSIWYG Editor

You might also find these links useful:

View your blog categories

Syncing posts and pages

Filtering and sorting

So, what does Filter do?

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