At WordPress.com, we believe short thoughts deserve a real home. Today we’re introducing a new theme built for quick posts, replies, and reblogs: the kind of writing that lives somewhere between a tweet and a blog post, on a site that’s entirely yours.
from: A New Theme for Short-Form Blogging on WordPress.com – WordPress.com News
A new setup on wordpress.com with front end posting, 500 char limit in their editor, but you can go past that if you use an alternative editor, WordLand for example.
It is not clear to me if the features go with the theme, or there is a plugin I can’t see at work. I’ve only got a free WordPress.com account. It looks like you could change the theme.
Of course it would be interesting to see this on self hosted WordPress sites. I did experiment with a telex block that gave simple short form posting. Not quite in a popup, but could be useful on mobile.
Update: Manton has some thoughts: Manton Reece – WordPress short-form interface.
@johnjohnston In my testing, if you use another app to post, anything past 500 characters will later be cut off. Obviously it’s early and that might be a bug.
@manton I managed a 1200 char post, via WordLand, and will see how long it lasts. Feels a bit beta compared to micro.blog at the moment. But interesting to watch.
@johnjohnston I might be wrong, because @dave was also able to create a longer post. But for me, when I use the WP Admin interface to create a new post or edit an existing post to be longer, it eventually truncates it. Perhaps if you post from a third-party app and never touch it again.
@manton I’ve tested from the WP Jetpack app on iOS and you can post as much text as you like without truncation.
@manton I think the never touch it again will be the trick. When I went to edit it see “1217/500” in red.
@manton interesting when you look at the post in the WordPress standard post editor the text is in a classic block and the images nowhere to be seen?