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Custom App Spotlight: All Stars Connected Community – Transforming the lives of youth and their families in poor communities

The All Stars Connected Community mobile app for iOS and Android alerts DSY (Development School for Youth) alumni about new job opportunities at fortune 500 companies.

Custom App Spotlight: DiversifySTEM – Advancing Women in STEM Careers

The AppPresser Custom App Development Team created a custom website and mobile app for iOS and Android powered by WordPress, LearnDash, BuddyPress, GamiPress and hosted on WPEngine.

New Features This Month: Media and More

This month we are excited to release 3 new features/improvements for your AppPresser apps. tl;dr – audio, video, and pdfs are much nicer now, app rebuild required. An external PDF app is now required for offline viewing on Android. New category lists in the ap-list component. Media Player The media player plays audio and video…

Featured App: DEA NYPD by the Detectives’ Endowment Association

The gold shield of a New York City Police Detective is one of the most recognized symbols in law enforcement. The union that represents those detectives has been doing so for more than a century, and its app puts the union’s news, events and benefits information in members’ hands. The DEA NYPD app is for…

What’s new in mobile this month?

Here’s a quick glimpse at what’s happening with mobile right now. iOS 13 iOS 13 is will be out on September 19th. Some notable new features include dark mode, Apple sign in, improvements to photo editing and Siri, and more. Android 10 Android 10 is out, and it has some great new features. Smart replies…

How to Declare a Target Audience for Google Play

You may have received an email recently from Google Play that says “Declare a target audience by September 1st.” Here’s what they want you to do. Login to your Play console and click your app. Go to Store Presence => App Content. Under Target audience and content, click start. Select your audience age. If you…

How a Self-Audit Improved Our Product Usability

Many product developers, ourselves included, focus more on the code than UI/UX. It can be helpful to take a step back and look specifically at usability with a self-imposed audit. After all, perfect code doesn’t matter if your product is hard to use, amirite? For this audit we’ll be using the Nielsen Norman Group’s 10…

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…

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