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It may have been beaten to the App Store by Typepad, but WordPress’ official iPhone app has finally made its debut. The free app lets you create and edit posts on your iPhone, and works with blogs on WordPress.com, as well as self-installed WordPress blogs using v2.5.1 and higher.

I’ve been having a play with it this morning, and it seems pretty slick. You can access multiple blogs from within the application, and setting them up is as simple as typing in their URL and your login details.

You can set tags and categories, post photos directly from the iPhone, and save posts as drafts for later editing, or put them live. There’s an embedded browser too, allowing you to see how they’ll look. Handily, the app auto-recovers your posts if you’re interrupted by a phone call.

If you’re an iPhone-toting WordPress blogger, it’s an essential download (not least because it’s free). Click here to get it from the App Store.

Bango, which specialises in mobile payment provision, has launched a one-touch access to mobile content from users’ social networking sites, or blogs.

The “Get On My Mobile” Bango Button is designed so anyone using a social website, media sharing site, forum or blog can make their content available to mobile phone users with one click.

The Bango service will automatically resize images for download to mobile phones, and can configure sites to fit on mobile screens - so you don’t have to.

It’s been designed for sites like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Bebo, Friendster, LinkedIn, Blogger, Orkut and WordPress. It’s already been through Beta testing and is now being rolled out to the public.

To create their own ‘Get On My Mobile’ button, users simply have to insert a code generated by Bango next to the content they want to share from their site. When users click on the button, they will get a URL which they enter into their mobile’s browser. If you want to make money, you can charge for downloading this content.