In honor of what’s coming to be know as iTablet week — or is it iSlate? — we wanted to make our own little offering to the Apple Gods. The InJersey iPhone app is simplified little interface you can use to browse through the latest updates on InJersey, or your town. It isn’t the first self-described “hyperlocal” app — I counted four others, not to mention related apps like SeeClickFix and Fwix — and I’m sure it won’t be the last.
You can’t yet publish using the app, though that’s something we’d like to build into it in the not-so-distant future. For now, though, you can download the WordPress 2 app and add your InJersey site of choice, and you’ll be able to publish on the go using that.
One of the best things about using the WordPress blog software as the backbone for InJersey is that there are lots of different ways to publish a post — even without a computer!
You can, of course, log into the site and use the “Add New Post” screen. But say you’re in the middle of downtown Freehold and see a major accident or a fire or a new store. You want to share the news with your neighbors right away, but it’ll be hours before you can get to a computer. All you have is your trusty cell phone.
And, as luck would have it, that’s all you need to be able to log in and post news and photos to InJersey.
No matter whether you’ve got the latest iPhone or an older, more basic phone, as long as you can access the web, you can log into the site and post. Here are three of the best ways that we reccomend:
It takes a few minutes to install the app, and you’ll need to already have an InJersey login and password to get set up. Make sure that you specify which InJersey town you want to add. For example, you might want to put in cherryhill.injersey.com as the site domain.
Rather than walking you through all the set up steps, check out this quick video:
2. The WordPress iPhone app works much the same way as the Blackberry app. Again, make sure you have a username and password before attempting to add a blog. Here’s a quick video demonstrating how the iPhone app works.
3. Finally, even if you don’t have a smartphone like an iPhone or Blackberry, you can still access InJersey to make a post by using our mobile-optimized backend. To get to this, type in the URL of the town you’re interested in contributing to, plus add “wp-admin” to the end of the URL. For example: http://flemington.injersey.com/wp-admin
From there you’ll see an option to enter the “mobile admin interface.” Make sure to check this off.
Next you should see a stripped-down and mobile friendly version of the backend of the blog, where you can easily write and publish posts.
If you have any trouble at all getting any of these to work, please email ted [at] injersey.com.
Now you can access all the InJersey towns on your cell phone or iPhone.
We have a mobile-optimized version of the site, that should load up automatically no matter what kind of phone you’re using. Just type in the domain of the town site you’re interested in (e.g. http://cherryhill.injersey.com) and it should load right up.
For InJersey contributors, there’s also a mobile-optimized admin screen, which you can get to by clicking on the “log in” link on any of the mobile sites, or just by going directly to the backend of our blogging software, WordPress, by adding wp-admin to the end of the url (e.g. http://cherryhill.injersey.com/wp-admin)
(from left to right: the mobile version of an InJersey town site; the login screen to the InJersey blog software; the mobile-optimized screen to write and edit posts)
These should render well on ALL cell phones. They look best on iPhones and Palm Pres, but you should be able to load the streamlined version on any other celll phone capable of accessing the web.
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