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Check out what’s new with AppPresser this month. Photo Gallery You can now easily add a photo gallery to your app, and allow app users to upload photos from their device. Choose if you want to allow photo uploads, what photos you want to display, and how you want them displayed. Click a photo to…
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Function 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…
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The 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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Updates – Logins, Camera, and Email Notifications
This month we made some significant updates to AppPresser apps, here is a log of the important changes. September stats just for fun: > 75 code commits > 1700 email replies > dozens of bugs squashed Login Updates By default the WordPress login token (JWT) expires after 7 days. An expired token causes problems with…
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New! Podcasting and Media Player Improvements
This month we made some big improvements to our media and podcasting features. Speed and Looping Now you can listen to podcasts (or any audio) faster or slower with our new speed adjustments. With the click of a button, listen at 1.5x, 2x, or .5x. The new loop button allows you to loop a single…
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Version 3 Deprecation
AppPresser version 3 is now deprecated. That means we are no longer adding new features or bug fixes, any customers on v3 who wish to continue building apps should upgrade to AppPresser 4. Anyone who purchased after March 2020 or who already upgraded can ignore this article. Why It was not our intention to deprecate…
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PhoneGap Build is Dead. Here are some alternatives.
PhoneGap Build, the cloud build service for hybrid Cordova and Ionic apps, will be discontinued later this year. The team at PhoneGap has been neglecting this service for a long time, so it’s not much of a surprise. Here at AppPresser we used their service in the past, and in this article we’ll talk about…
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July Product Updates
This month we’ve been working hard fixing bugs and helping customers. Here are some of the recent product updates we’ve released. New HTML Validator One issue that was coming up a lot was broken builds due to invalid custom HTML. For example, if you forgot a closing tag or added an extra double quote, your…
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In App Purchases and other product updates
Things have been very busy around here, support got pretty crazy due to the pandemic, but we are finally able to come up for air. We have some exciting updates for you this month. In App Purchases In app purchases got a total rewrite to make signups and cancellations more reliable, and make debugging easier.…
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Should You Pay a Monthly or Yearly Fee for a Mobile App?
Recently a customer emailed me and said he was thinking about buying our product, but a developer approached him and said he could build an app with no monthly fee. Why should he pay us a monthly (or yearly) fee? After all, the app is done, why keep paying? Monthly fees are no fun, I…
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