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Mobile UI Tip: Steppers vs. Dropdowns

When designing websites for mobile devices, the devil is in the details. Many websites have a low conversion rate on mobile, and it’s usually because filling out forms is such a pain. It’s easier to fill out forms using a desktop keyboard, so most people don’t even bother on mobile. Making forms easier to fill…

Essential Apps to Manage WordPress from your iPad

Gone are the days when a tablet or phone is a nice to have secondary device. Many people say they feel a bit panicked when they leave the house without their devices. While phones have earned their places in our workflows for email, messages, and even the odd call, for many tablets are still a…

How to Use a Book as Content Marketing for Your Online Business

Content marketing can be the key to building the following you want for your business. You can use YouTube, blog posts, social media, and a number of other ways to get more people to know who you are so that they trust you and are more likely to purchase from you. Today we’re going to…

Getting Started with the BuddyPress REST API

The BuddyPress REST API allows you to interact with BuddyPress from a 3rd party site or app. You can do things like grab the activity feed, upload an activity update, interact with groups and members, and more. It does not have 100% parity with the PHP functionality in the plugin, but it has most of…

June Product Update – AppCommerce Variable Products

The headline feature this month is major improvements to AppCommerce variable products, but we did much more than that. AppCommerce better handling of available attributes and relating those to variations better messaging if variation does not exist change image to match variation, if variation image exists better UI for loading and changing attributes Bug fixes…

5 Must-Have Enhancements for any WooCommerce Site

While there are a number of basic things that most WooCommerce developers do as they set up a client site, so many stop with the basics. You provide a working site, but don’t do a bit of extra work to help make sure that your client’s sites are not only easy to manage, but are…

What We Learned Building Apps Using the WooCommerce REST API

The WooCommerce REST API gives you the freedom to create cool web or mobile apps that are detached from your WordPress site. You can create a mobile app that displays your products and allows people to purchase them, or a web app that pulls in a product catalog and saves them offline. You can also…

Build Better Mobile Apps Using Digital Minimalism

Recently Cal Newport released Digital Minimalism which focuses on building a productive life in the midst of all of the distractions that our devices can throw at us. For some app developers this call to a world where we purposely don’t allow our devices to become a center of our lives is a worrying thing.…

May Product Update – Global Tab Menus and a New Site Design

The headline feature this month is the new global tab menu. This feature means your tab menu can show even when the side menu in your app has been clicked. If you’re interested in adding global tab menus to your AppPresser app, then take a look at our documentation to see how to set them…

Meet the Team Behind AppPresser

Today we wanted to give you a quick intro to our team at AppPresser. Most of the team was present, though a few of our members work on very different time zones and weren’t able to join us. Yes we totally sprung this on the team, only Scott and I knew it was happening. Members…

Downloadable Podcasts in Your AppPresser App

Update 10/5/20: we made some improvements to podcasting in AppPresser apps, check out this post By the end of today’s video you will understand how to get your podcast setup in AppPresser so that your users can listen to your podcasts. They’ll even be able to download it for offline listening.Here are the basic steps:…

Frequently Asked Questions about AppPresser

If you’ve followed along as we’ve talked about all the ways that people are using AppPresser, you’ve still likely got some more questions before you are willing to make a purchase. Today we’re going to try to answer all of those questions for you. If you still have a question when you’re done reading, leave…

Who is Using AppPresser? Customer Examples.

Over the last number of weeks we’ve answered a bunch of questions that beginning customers have when they look at using AppPresser to build a mobile app with their WordPress site. If you missed those posts, here they are. Mobile is Not the Future (it’s the Present) The 3 Big Problems You Can Solve with…

April Product Update – Custom Fonts and BuddyPress Xprofile Editing

While there are a bunch of updates this month, there are two we’re particularly proud of. First, you can now change the heading and body fonts in your AppPresser app. You can use Roboto, Roboto Slab, Lato, Oswald, Merriweather as well as any custom Google Font (custom fonts don’t work offline). The second big update…

How Does AppPresser Work With My WordPress Plugins and Theme?

You’re probably wondering how your particular site will work with AppPresser, and what the app can do. Let’s start with how AppPresser works, and how you can integrate your WordPress content. How AppPresser Works If you’re inclined to video, you can get an overview of how AppPresser works here before we dive in to the…

3 Ways To Build An App Compared

Since you’re here, I’m assuming that you want to build a mobile app for your site. While we could pretend that using AppPresser is the only way to get this done, that’s not the truth. There are other options that have different costs and benefits to those that AppPresser provides. There are three approaches you…

4 Steps to Making a Great Mobile App

Everybody loves Instagram, but did you know that it wasn’t always as beautiful and simple? Instagram started out as an app called Burbn that allowed people to check in at certain locations, earn points, and post photos. The problem was that it wasn’t getting traction. The app was complex and hard to use, and it…

AppPresser March 2019 Update

Just like we said a few weeks back, we want to keep you updated on what is going on with AppPresser for 2019. This is our first installment of regular updates for what’s going on with AppPresser. Enhancements for AppCommunity We know you’ve been asking for AppCommunity enhancements and this month we’ve been working on…

The 3 Big Problems You Can Solve with a Mobile App

I’m not going to pretend like an app solves all the world’s problems, but there are some unique solutions an app can provide. Let’s look at the 3 most common problems business owners face that only an app can solve well. Problem 1: Click, wait. Click, wait. Click, wait. You’ve lost me. If your website…

Mobile is Not the Future (it’s the Present)

You may have heard that mobile is the future, but it’s not. It’s the present. If you think mobile is the future, you’re living in the past. If you’re reading this, you’re ahead of the game. You realize that mobile is important, and you’re figuring out how an app could fit into your customer engagement…

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