I wrote earlier

• More thoughts on Automattic’s new short-form blogging app. I wish I could use WordLand to post to it. That would make things so simple. But their limits are like Twitter’s limits. Tiny little textboxes. And the funny thing is the storage system behind it doesn’t have any of those limits. It’s like they want to be sure you still have to use the standard WordPress user interface? I wouldn’t be surprised if the thinking behind it was like that.

Andrew Shell wrote a post saying that I was wrong, I could use WordLand to post to Automattic’s new short form blogging “app” — Andrew says it’s not an app it’s a plugin, but I don’t really know what the limits are of each form. I can do pretty much anything from the JS code in a WordPress page. No matter, Andrew is right and I can write a post in WordLand and it does show up in their product (which needs a shorter name btw).

But it’s even better than you might think. They pass through the styling and links. Since WordPress supports the full range of web text, they would have to specifically keep it out, but that’s not friendly to writers and to the web, of course.

A screenshot of the post in WordLand.

And the view of it on their social network. Look the links are there and they work. Yehi! Let’s Go Web!

They also don’t enforce the character limit if the post is coming from outside their user interface, so WordLand posts can go on and on. I have one post that’s already over 1000 characters. Ooops. This is really weird that Automattic opened this door. We should all talk about this and ask maybe we should do the revolutionary thing here, instead of tiptoeing into social web, we should blow off the doors. We have the opportunity to do it, and in doing so, create a new great path for writers and developers to make WordPress even more valuable.