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Custom App Spotlight: ‘Ōlelo’s Mobile App

By Dalya Messenlehner | February 20, 2024

‘Ōlelo Community Media is a non-profit organization located in Hawaii, dedicated to providing media education and community access to television production resources. The organization’s mission is to empower community members to tell their own stories and share their perspectives through media production. ‘Ōlelo offers a wide range of services to the community, including media training,…

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Custom Photo Modal

By Scott Bolinger | April 8, 2015

A modal is a popup that slides in on top of the current page. Mobile apps use modals quite a bit, because they look and work great. Click the image to the left to see an example of a modal. We use modals in AppPresser for a variety of things, including login screens and BuddyPress…

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Create a custom homepage for your AppPresser app

By Scott Bolinger | March 25, 2015

This article is for an older version of AppPresser, please see our documentation for an up to date article on creating a page like this. Many mobile apps have custom home screens. Let’s look at a popular icon based home screen layout, and how you can create one for your AppPresser app. Many people like…

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Updates to all AppPresser products, March 2015

By Scott Bolinger | March 17, 2015

All extensions, core plugin, Phonegap project files, and theme have been updated. Before you update, please read below. What’s new? Mostly bug fixes and compatibility updates, we squashed so many bugs we lost count in this release.

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The biggest mobile app building mistake

By Scott Bolinger | March 13, 2015

We’ve been building mobile apps for a while now, and seeing our customers do the same. There’s a big mistake that we see our customers make time and time again. It’s totally understandable, especially when you aren’t experienced building mobile apps. It’s the fault of the app developers and their clients both, and it’s an…

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wp-api authentication

Custom WP-API Authentication

By Scott Bolinger | March 5, 2015

The WP-API is a JSON REST API that is slated to go into WordPress core. The API allows applications like mobile apps to interact with WordPress. It’s been written about extensively, and it’s documented well. If you’ve worked with the API before, you may have come across the issue of authentication. The API can allow…

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Is a mobile app better than a mobile website?

By Scott Bolinger | February 4, 2015

Mobile website vs. mobile app can be a heated debate. Many people feel that you don’t need a mobile app, you just need a website that looks good on mobile devices. Others say that mobile apps have benefits that a website cannot provide. Who is right? Everyone needs a responsive website that looks great on…

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Reactor Development: Embedded Webpage

By Ryan | January 22, 2015

The Embedded Webpage Page Type is available for when you need to include something in your app and none of the other page types can handle the content. Or, you want to include something from a different site from where your WP API data is supplied. This page type should be used only when absolutely necessary.…

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5 Things Developers can do with Reactor

5 Cool Things Developers Can Do With Reactor

By Scott Bolinger | January 15, 2015

Reactor is no longer available, but you can get all the same features (and more) with AppPresser 3. If you are a developer, you can build mobile apps for your clients using your WordPress skill set. Building mobile apps with Reactor is very similar to your process when building a client’s website. With a website,…

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Make a mobile app using your WooCommerce website

By Scott Bolinger | January 13, 2015

If you have a WooCommerce website that sells your products, you can easily convert it into a mobile app for iOS and Android. Your app users can browse your products and purchase in the app, using the same payment gateway you have on your site. If you use Stripe or PayPal on your site, the…

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