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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.…

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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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Using the Command Line Like a Boss

The command line is one of those things that you either love or hate. It can be really scary/confusing at first, but it is an essential tool for any developer. It’s a great feeling to be able to install a plugin through the command line, or run a node server on your local machine. If…

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How to Send Custom Push Notifications

The AppPush extension allows you to send push notifications to your app through Pushwoosh or the WordPress dashboard. Did you know you can also send custom push notifications based on almost any action in WordPress or in a plugin? There are some built-in integrations to send pushes when a new post is published, a private…

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How to Create an Event App with AppPresser

Event apps are very popular, and they are easy to make with AppPresser. Some event apps just show information about a single event, while others need a list of multiple events (a church for example). We will go over both of those here. Whether you just need to list upcoming events, or you need a…

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Submit WordPress Posts from the Front-End with the WP-API

Updated 12/7/16 In this article you will learn how to create a front-end WordPress post submission form using the WP-API. We’ll focus specifically on why this is better than the “old way” of using admin-ajax. Why would you want to do this? Because it’s faster, easier, and more secure. Let’s take a look at how…

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Add Social Login to your AppPresser App

Update: this post is only for AppPresser 1, AppPresser 3 does not support the social login plugin. Adding a button to login with Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other services is a great way to make your app easier to use. Instead of filling out a registration or login form, your app users can click a…

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Understanding AppPresser as a Total Beginner – Part 2

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This is part 2 of Understanding AppPresser as a Total Beginner. In Part One I noted that it was important for me to understand the difference between a mobile app and mobile site. I also mentioned how I tried installing the AppTheme as a plugin rather than a theme, but that was probably just me…

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Understanding AppPresser as a Total Beginner

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Hi, I’m Leif, the newest member of AppPresser. Make that ‘new’… as in Noob. That’s because, aside from learning about AppPresser early on and getting my hands on a free eBook being handed out, I knew little about the software or the company. (By the way, you can get that free eBook by filling out…

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How we customized our BuddyPress app, PressChat

Update: The customization in this post only works with AppPresser 2. If you are using AppPresser 3, please see this post. We recently built a mobile app that integrates with BuddyPress called PressChat. To develop this app, we customized AppPresser and BuddyPress with things like a custom intro screen, changing the login screen, a custom…

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