Posts by Scott Bolinger
7 MUSTS For Agencies Who Want to Develop Mobile Apps for Clients
I recently spoke with James, who owns a web development Agency in the UK. He has had some requests for mobile apps from his clients, and he is figuring out the best way to create those apps. Here are a few things he mentioned to me: The client doesn’t have a huge budget or timeline,…
Read MoreNew! HUGE LearnDash App Improvements
We completely rewrote our LearnDash integration from scratch to make your courses faster, smoother, and more immersive for your students. It’s now in beta and ready for you to test in your own apps. The main focus was performance, and it is a huge improvement. Moving away from iFrames to an API based infrastructure allows…
Read MoreNew Features and Improvements This Month
We are always releasing fixes and improvements, here’s the latest. Comments on API based Posts You can now show comments and add new ones on WordPress post list blocks. To enable comments, just check “Show Comments” on your WordPress post list block. For apps built prior to the date of this post, your app must…
Read MoreHow To Create Great Looking App Store Screenshots
Great screenshots are critical to making your app store listing attractive to collect more app downloads. In this article I’ll show you how to go beyond just grabbing screenshots from your app. Learn how to liven them up with attention grabbing titles background images, and device frames. Free Figma and Photoshop files included. Table of…
Read MoreNew App: Share and Upvote WordPress Community Content
The new Capital P Dangit app by AppPresser is live on the app stores. Download it (links below) to find the best content from around the WordPress community. Share, upvote, and even submit your articles in a user friendly mobile app. This app was built with AppPresser just for fun. Here are some of the…
Read MoreApple In App Purchase Fees Cut in Half
Apple recently announced that they will be dropping their commissions on in app purchases to 15% starting January 1st, 2021. The fees will be reduced for anyone making under $1 million per year, which they classify as Small Businesses. From Apple’s announcement: Existing developers who made up to $1 million in 2020 for all of…
Read MoreNew! Apple and Google Login
You can now allow your app users to easily login to your app with their Apple and Google accounts. (not available on all plans) With this feature enabled, your app users will be shown the standard email/password login, as well as buttons for Apple and Google Sign on. When they click one of the buttons,…
Read MoreNew! App Page Builder
Our new App Page Builder lets you create pages for your app easier than ever. Create custom page layouts Drag and drop components visually See changes right away, less rebuilding! No code required This is a huge improvement for creating custom pages in your apps, it’s faster and more intuitive. Create Custom Page Layouts Using…
Read MoreFunction to Enroll a User into a LearnDash Course
To enroll or unenroll a user from a LearnDash course programatically (using code), you use the ld_update_course_access() function. Enroll This function takes 3 arguments, the user id, course id, and whether you’d like to remove them from the course. To get the course id, it’s helpful to use the learndash_get_course_id() function. This allows you to…
Read MoreThe Difference Between WordPress Actions and Filters (for beginners)
If you want to customize something on your WordPress site using code, you use an action or a filter. With an action or a filter, you can add something to a page, load Javascript or CSS, add information to a post before it is saved, and a thousand other things. So what’s the difference between…
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