Microsoft Store gets an official WordPress app that's rated M for Mature

Wordpress.com has arrived on the Microsoft Shop in the form of an official app released by Automattic, Inc.‬, the visitor backside WordPress (via WalkingCat). The app is, by all accounts, virtually identical to the traditional browser-based experience, and so your mileage with its utility may vary. Here's the app's official description, every bit stated by Automattic.

"Give your large ideas a home on the web. Manage or create your WordPress blog or website correct from your desktop.

Pick the right await and feel from a wide pick of WordPress themes.
Create updates, stories, photo essays announcements -- annihilation!
Bring your posts and pages to life with photos and video from your photographic camera and albums, or discover the perfect epitome with the in-app drove of gratis-to-employ pro photography.
View stats in real time to keep runway of the activity on your site by exploring daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly insights.
Become notifications about comments, likes and new followers.
Reply to comments and interact with your readers every bit you grow your website or blog."

At present, that's all well and proficient. But where the real excitement is found is in the app's ESRB rating. Due to WordPress' emphasis on user interactions (information technology is a blogging platform, after all) which aren't moderated and censored to ensure a completely family unit-friendly blogging ecosphere, this app shares the aforementioned ESRB rating as the likes of Quantum Break and Chiliad Theft Auto V, which feature intense gun violence, language, and all other manners of things that go a piece of software hit with the "M for Mature" label.

The rating is also accompanied by the disclaimer that the WordPress app features in-app purchases, which apparently influences said rating or at least warrants a disclaimer alongside it.

If it'southward not clear, that M rating is probably the only mildly amusing item about this app'due south release. Otherwise, it'southward a pretty straightforward bit of news. WordPress bloggers, rejoice; you now accept an app that lets you lot do exactly what you've been doing for years now.

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