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I'm working on a Wordpress blog/article reader app for iOS which will draw from an existing Wordpress site. As of right now the app's design is as simple as a UITableView of articles which drills down to a particular article. I don't think I'll have a problem fetching the content (I found some nice info from this SO question) but my question has to do with formatting the returned content, specifically for the article itself.

The way I see it, I can either have the content come back as HTML from the WP blog's mobile website, or I can get only the article's unformatted text. Here lies my dilemma:

If I request for the formatted HTML to be returned, I get all sorts of other web-specific stuff with it (links, images, navigation bars, etc.). Just throwing that HTML in a UIWebView would be screen-scraping and make for an awful user experience. However, I would get some text formatting.

If I request for the raw article text and put it in a UITextView, I don't have a dynamic way to format that text (as far as I know). However, I would be rid of all those excess web elements.

Is there a 'best of both worlds' where I can have neatly formatted text minus the elements I don't want to appear in the app? Please give suggestions, point out anything I'm not aware of, and steer me in the right direction.

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  • Consider installing the [Jetpack](http://jetpack.me/) plugin (from the makers of Wordpress), which includes a JSON API for full integration. Of course, there's also the Wordpress app. – Marcus Adams Aug 15 '13 at 20:03
  • @MarcusAdams - Does Jetpack provide ways to specify how the returned content is formatted? – hgwhittle Aug 20 '13 at 13:24

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