My search for a way to edit my blog on my phone or iPad may be over. It turns out Ulysses has pretty robust WordPress publishing support. You can post and edit back and forth on either Mac or iOS and it seems to keep a track of things fairly well. It’s not quite as seamless as MarsEdit — there’s an extra step in the publishing process where you have to confirm that the post settings such as categories and dates and the like are right — but it beats fighting with the WordPress dashboard. Unfortunately Ulysses interactions are one way only. There’s no way to get posts that didn’t originate in Ulysses or for it to update the local version of a post if the one in WordPress has been edited elsewhere. But I think that is outside of the scope of what Ulysses is supposed to be.
And you can get the benefit of Ulysses’ best feature — manual ordering of posts.
Now all I need to do is work out navigation, tweak the archive display, and fix the image problem and I’ll be able to stop futzing about behind the scenes and focus on writing.