WordPress is a mighty force in the CMS universe. It alone powers almost half of the websites on the web and around two-thirds of all the websites whose content management systems are known.
If you have chosen WordPress for building and managing your site, you are on the right track. However, as mobile is responsible for most web traffic nowadays, the next obvious step is to complement your WordPress site with an equally powerful app.
Now, creating an app for your WordPress website shouldn’t be difficult at all. You can easily create a mobile app in a dedicated no-code environment like the one AppMySite offers.
While you can convert any website to an app with AppMySite, it offers deep integration with WordPress and WooCommerce. This means you can sync a lot of your website’s functionality to the native interface of your app.
In the following sections, we’ll cover how you can build and launch WordPress apps without writing any code.
How to create a WordPress app with AppMySite?
AppMySite is the ideal solution to build an app for your WordPress website. All the features you need for a WordPress app can be added with simple point-and-click options.
So how does the process work? The following sections provide a complete guide on the same:
Personalize your app
Design your app’s crucial assets such as the app icon and screens and personalize them based on your goals. Within AppMySite, you will be able to find plenty of options to fully customize your app using simple point-and-click options.
The intuitive design editor guides you through as you create the assets from scratch. Alternatively, you can also upload your existing artwork and designs and make sure that your app assets match your website design and theme.
Next, you can also determine the type of access you want to offer to your app users. Customize your signup and login screens and manage how you onboard users on your app.
Connect your website and app
The next step is connecting your website and app. The process of integrating your WordPress website with the app is fairly simple.
All you need to do is install the AppMySite plugin on your WordPress website. This will connect your website and app. Next, you need to grant access via WordPress application passwords and sync your site’s content to the app.
Suggested Read: How does connectivity on AppMySite work?
This is an important step for site owners as your app’s features and functionalities may depend on the connectivity between your website and the app. It replaces the conventional development steps and makes the process automated and quick.
Test and publish on top app stores
When your app is ready, you can download it from AppMySite and upload it to the top app stores. AppMySite apps are carefully constructed to ensure compliance with Google Play and Apple App Store guidelines.
Before you submit your apps, you can preview how they look and work on a real emulator. You can also test your app on real mobile devices and see if your apps work properly in a smartphone environment.
Any changes you make to your app can be previewed on the app in real time. You can fully explore the app and see if its performance and appearance are optimal on a real smartphone device.
Suggested Read: Mobile app testing – A complete guide to testing Android & iOS mobile apps
What features will power your WordPress app?
AppMySite enables you to convert any WordPress website to a mobile app. While this is the easy part, you also need to ensure that the app you build is powered by essential features.
The following sections highlight all the features that power your WordPress app built on AppMySite.
#1: Automatic website-app sync
One of the main benefits of working with AppMySite is that all your website’s content is continuously synced with your app.
What does this mean?
Let’s assume you publish a new blog post on your website. This post will be synced to your app automatically. You won’t need to take any additional steps to make sure your new post is visible in the app. The entire process is automatic.
Similarly, any time you update a post, page, category, or product (if you’re using WooCommerce), the changes will be automatically reflected in the app. This way, you can manage all your app’s content by simply changing it on the website.
#2: Seamless navigation with menus
You can easily configure your app menus and make in-app navigation seamless. In your WordPress app, you can show two menus – a side menu and a bottom bar.
For your side menu, you can either sync a readymade menu from your WordPress website or create a new one from scratch. If your website’s menu contains custom post types or taxonomies as items, the same will be synced to the app.
For the bottom bar, you can add new items and choose a destination for each. You can direct users to native posts, pages, category listing screens, post listing screens, product screens, and so on. Both these options will allow you to power your app with smart navigation options.
#3: Easy integration with WooCommerce
WooCommerce integration allows you to sync your store’s products, details, categories, and more with the app.
Once you connect your WooCommerce store, you will start seeing your products and other related data in the app. WooCommerce integration helps you achieve the following:
- Sync your entire WooCommerce store with the app.
- Allow users to discover products and other info within the app.
- Show your website’s payment gateway in the app. You don’t need to take any additional steps to render your payment gateways.
- Display your store’s shipping methods in your mobile app.
- Customize how your product and product listing screens appear in the app.
#4: Complete support for custom post types & taxonomies
WordPress allows you to create different types of websites with the help of third-party plugins. For example, you can use WooCommerce to build an e-commerce site, or Learndash to create a learning platform.
These plugins allow you to create multiple formats of content, like products and courses, via custom post types and taxonomies.
With AppMySite, you can sync your website’s custom post types and taxonomies to the app. This will allow you to display all types of content within the app.
Suggested Read: How to create custom post types and taxonomies for your WordPress website?
#5: Additional features for growth and marketing
While you can simply replicate your website experience on the app, you can also leverage AppMySite’s advanced offerings to add more features.
For instance, once your app is live, you would want customers to download it across the globe. Thus, AppMySite offers a language support feature. Based on your subscription plan, your app users would be able to select a language of their choice within the app. Doing this will translate your app’s native labels, texts, and buttons to a language of your choice.
Similarly, you can use the Push Notifications feature to create and send rich push notifications, implement a Chat option to extend one-click support to users, collect usage data through Analytics to measure your app’s performance, and so on.
In conclusion
Making WordPress apps can be difficult, especially if you decide to use conventional tools and frameworks. However, this can be bypassed completely with a no-code app builder like AppMySite that lets you create all kinds of apps, from scratch or from a website.
This article explains how you can build WordPress apps without coding. Create aesthetic apps and power them with premium features in minutes and publish it to Google Play and Apple App Store. Continue to scale and promote your app and grow your business manifold.