Ulysses App Updates WordPress Publishing to Use WP REST API – WP Tavern

Ulysses, a writing app for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, has released model 26. This is a crucial replace for individuals who use the app to put in writing and publish to WordPress. It provides help for extra blogs and has simplified the method of setting them up utilizing the WordPress REST API.

Beneath the File > Publishing Preview menu, customers with linked WordPress websites can see how their posts would look with the Twenty Twenty-One default theme. Right here you can too handle exterior publishing accounts and add a number of WordPress blogs by authenticating for every one and authorizing the Ulysses app. (Accounts had been beforehand accessible beneath a separate menu however at the moment are discovered beneath the Publishing Previews display.)

Ulysses has been round since 2003 – so long as WordPress, and has gained a loyal buyer base over the previous 19 years. It’s run by a small crew based mostly in Leipzig, Germany. The app’s customers are sometimes attracted by its refined help for writing tasks, distraction-free writing interface, and clear design, which gained an Apple Design Award in 2016.

The app has supported publishing on to WordPress since model 2.6, launched in August 2016. Previous to this launch, customers had been exporting their posts as HTML or Markdown and pasting them into the WordPress editor. Version 22, launched in 2021, launched Micro.weblog publishing and WordPress publish updating.

Along with the extra modernized WordPress publishing integration, the most recent replace adjustments the publishing stream UI to characteristic devoted buttons for fast entry to publishing and the publishing preview. It additionally introduces a brand new counter on MacOS within the editor that exhibits the phrase depend and pops out just a little desk of different stats on click on, together with characters, sentences, paragraphs, pages, and extra.

Model 26 additionally fixes some sluggishness within the editor and eliminates a gaggle of annoying crash eventualities that customers have been experiencing:

• Fastened a crash when sharing a sheet from Ulysses
• Fastened a possible delay when typing within the editor
• Fastened a uncommon crash on app launch
• Fastened a crash when dragging a sheet from Mac to iPad utilizing Common Management

Ulysses customers who wish to discover out what’s coming in upcoming releases can check new options earlier than they arrive accessible by becoming a member of the app’s beta program for iOS or macOS.