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Connect Your Ionic 2+ App to WordPress Using the WP-API

*Updated for Ionic 3.2.1 on 5/17/17 In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of creating an Ionic 2 app that pulls in WordPress posts and other content using the WP-API. We’ll also look at how to handle custom post types and other content using the same method we’ll use here. Once you know…

Using a child theme to customize your app

When building a WordPress website, using a child theme to customize your site’s look and functionality is considered a best practice. It should come as no surprise that you should use a child theme when creating an app for your site. I briefly touched on this topic in my recent post where I provided an overview…

How to Estimate a Mobile App Project for Your Clients

Many freelancers and agency owners I talk to like the idea of offering apps to their clients, but they just don’t know where to start. For an agency, part of the problem is lack of experience building apps, and the other part is they don’t know how much to charge. There is this fear that…

HotBookDeals: From site to App

NOTE: The content in this post is related to AppPresser 2 only. For AppPresser 3, please check out this post Post Author: John Hawkins Earlier this year, I launched a new website called HotBookDeals.com, a site that sends a daily newsletter to members informing them of free and discounted ebooks in their selected categories. After…

Segmented Push Notifications Are Here!

Update: this post is only for AppPresser 2, if you are using AppPresser 3 please click here for information about segmenting. AppPush 2.4.0 was released yesterday, with a huge new feature: segmenting. This has been one of our most requested features, and it’s finally here. Segmenting gives your app users the ability to sign up…

Product Updates August 2016

Note: The content in this post is related to AppPresser 2. For AppPresser 3, please refer to our documentation We are always working hard on improving AppPresser, and we get really busy responding to your support requests and writing new code. We don’t always do a good job letting you know about new stuff, so here’s an…

Use Fastlane to Speed Up iOS App Store Submission

Updated July 2017 for Fastlane 2.4+ If you’ve submitted an app to the Apple app store, you know it can be a huge pain. You have to generate certificates, provisioning profiles, .p12 files, create the app store listing, and more. You login to different places to do those things, rebuild the app, download multiple files,…

How to Write Better Javascript

Most web projects involve writing Javascript, these days it’s more popular than ever. It’s important to know the fundamentals of how to write good Javascript, even if you don’t become a JS Ninja. There are some simple guidelines you can follow to instantly upgrade your skills, and ensure clean, maintainable code. Before we dive into…

An Introduction to Ionic 2, Typescript, and the WP-API

Keeping up with modern Javascript these days is harder than following the love lives of the Kardashians. Being a front-end developer is a constantly evolving job, with the framework du jour changing every other month. Writing Javascript is no longer just writing Javascript, it’s learning to use command line compilers like Grunt and Webpack, code…

Monetize Your App with AdMob

Note: The content in this post is related to AppPresser 2. AppPresser 3 does not use the AppAds plugin, instead it has admob built in. For more information, please check out our documentation Now you can make money from your AppPresser apps by showing ads from Google’s AdMob ad network. Our new AppAds extension allows…

Custom App Spotlight: Life of Dad

We recently had the opportunity to build a mobile app for Life of Dad, a community of dads from around the world. The app’s main focus is a social network, allowing dads to post photos, join groups, and interact with each other. There is also lots of great content like videos, podcasts, articles, and other…

Product Launch Mistakes

The first product I created and launched was a WordPress theme for fitness professionals. I had worked for a fitness company as their in-house designer for a few years, and learned a lot about the fitness world. I was still in contact with my former boss, and he agreed to help me promote the theme…

The Ultimate WooCommerce Checkout Customization Guide

Your WooCommerce checkout page is where all the money comes in, so any little tweak has the chance of increasing your revenue. Customizing your checkout can be done with custom code or with WooCommerce extensions, we will cover both of those here. Customizing WooCommerce checkout is something we are intimately familiar with. We recently built…

How We Use A/B Testing to Grow Our Business

Making a change to your website usually goes like this: We need to make this page better, let’s make X changes. Then you do one of two things. 1. Get a designer to mockup changes, argue about changes internally before coming to a decision and implementing. 2. Make the changes without any discussion or testing.…

We Paid for User Testing, Here’s How it Went

User testing is one of those things people always tell you to do, but you probably never do it. Testing is easy to put on the back burner as other more urgent issues pop up when building a website or product. It’s kind of expensive and time consuming, plus a lot of people don’t see…

Introducing WooCommerce Smart Checkout

This product is now available for purchase! Click here for pricing and more details. WooCommerce Smart Checkout is a mobile focused checkout experience for any WooCommerce store. You may have caught our last blog post about making WooCommerce checkout better, where we talked about how to improve your store conversions on mobile devices. Today we…

Let’s Make WooCommerce Checkout Better

Most forms suck on mobile, especially checkout forms. No one likes to type on mobile, and filling out a form requires a lot of typing. The average checkout form has 10-15 required fields to fill out. First name, last name, phone number, address 1, city, state, country, zip, plus multiple credit card fields. Many forms…

How to Masterfully Navigate the Web

I spent the better part of my early years in the San Francisco Bay Area, both working and playing in The City. So I’m no stranger to the wood-paneled lobbies, translucent atriums, and endless maze of cubicles that define the inner spaces for many of San Francisco’s towering structures, that mass of shapes defining the…

Responsive is Not Enough

We are big on apps here at AppPresser, but we also think a lot about the mobile web. Truth be told, we consider ourselves a mobile company, not just an app company. There are a lot of parallels between the apps we build, and mobile websites. The technology is similar between our apps and mobile…

Get to Know Your Mobile Visitors with Google Analytics

Analytics help us make decisions that grow our company. With an analytics tool, we can look at page views, conversion rates, bounce rates, and more. We can see where our site is leaking visitors and conversions, and try to patch those leaks to increase our revenue. You are probably already doing this with a tool…

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