I still haven’t given up on findng a better alternative than MoPress for blogging with my Nokia N97 mini on a WordPress site. So today I did some more searching and found WordPress for Nokia. I recognized the page from my earlier searches, but since this thing isn’t even out of beta, my previous though was to find something else. Well, since what I found since wasn’t up to par I decided to give the beta a chance.

I downloaded the package and tried to install it, but was promptly informed that Qt was not installed. So I canceled and went hunting for this other little bugger. It wasn’t exactly easy to find, but thanks to some comments on the very site where I found WordPress for Nokia I found a link to some packages I think was released by Nokia.

The packages were different parts and versions of Qt, and thanks to some trial and error I found out that the package I was looking for was called Qt installer. It installed a whole lot of different things on my phone and I was starting to think that this actually wasn’t too bad. How wrong was I…

After installing Qt, the WordPress for Nokia package also went in without a hitch. But when it came to launching the app nothing happend. I tried to exit all other running programs, I tried running it twice, I even cold booted the phone; still nothing.

So I went back to the comments on the website and started reading. After a while I found someone who had experienced the same as me. They were adviced to install another package called QtMobile, and from what I understood that made everything much better. Someone was even kind enough to link to a zip-file containing this fix-all package. I installed it, and sure enough: WordPress for Nokia is now running on my Nokia N97.

One might think that the story ends here. That after installation I got my blog set up in a flash and that this post is written with a big smile using WordPress for Nokia. Alas – so lucky were not I. While the configuration page was simple enough to fill in, the program has proven completely unable to make propper contact with the website. All I saw was “connection timeout”-messages. After trying four different connections – wifi and GPRS/3G – it seems the app has finally recognized the presence of a WordPress system on the website I am directing it to, because now all I’m getting is a program that fails to respond. The last message I saw was “fetching user blog” or something similar, but as I’m writing this post WordPress for Nokia is running like a zombie process in the background. And since the only way to kill it is to power off the phone, and because I can’t save drafts with MoPress I feel kinda stuck. Thank the ghost in the machine for multitasking!