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Back in November 2008, the WordPress for iPhone team posted a sneak preview of Version 1.2. Notable new features in this version include auto-rotation between portrait and landscape modes, comments moderation, and the ability for a user to create and edit Pages.

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Some days ago, the team announced the impending start of private beta testing. To my delight, I received an email today from WordPress that I have been included in the beta test. So here I am typing out this post with v1.2. Everything’s looking good so far in the first 10 minutes of test driving…

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I will be trying out every functionality of 1.2 for the next couple of days; you can expect some posts that’ll make absolutely no sense. :P

For those of you who are using WordPress for iPhone 1.1, one of the most prominent bugs introduced with WordPress’s upgrade to WordPress 2.7 is that a post published from your iPhone will become a sticky post. The WordPress for iPhone team is fully aware of this bug and will rectify it soon.