How to Create a WordPress App for WordPress Website?

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6 min readFeb 19, 2019

It’s no more relevant if I tell you about the demand and usefulness of having a mobile app in this epoch of Mobile devices and remote access. It is understood what a mobile app could do for your business or your blog

People prefer mobile apps for browsing, searching and they make decisions. And how much are you aware that these decisions mattered for your online business.

Let me make it more precise. A website is just an initial step that you make when taking your business online, Staying there may not hurt, but the real opportunities and growth are beyond that one step, If you have explored all the possibilities with the website, then its time for you to take action. And that starts with Mobile apps.

WordPress Blogs and News stream

I choose to explain how WordPress websites can be converted to mobile apps. The reasons are simple,

WordPress Websites power more than 32% of the web.
Every six months, there are 1.1 million new registrations to WordPress.
There are 2,739,999 search queries for WordPress in a month

Among the Google SERP, WordPress dominates with 583,000,000

Additionally, WordPress is the most used Content management system among the websites that have a CMS.

Which says among the websites with CMS, 60.1% of it is WordPress websites. And these stats are growing day by day.

If you own a WordPress Website, Let’s make sure that we don’t miss out the best part of using WordPress.

WordPress App Builder

When you surf along the web, You can see there is a handful of WordPress app builders.

And there is this WordPress builder of Appmaker. Just as the names says, this App builder offers App’s for various use cases, When categorized, the list includes,

WordPress App builder
WooCommerce App builder
Custom App builder
Web app builder

Except for web apps, Everything else including WordPress app builder provided by this app builder is native apps.

Convert WordPress to App

Now you can convert WordPress to a mobile app without any difficulties. Moreover, Appmaker has a unique Dashboard for managing your WordPress app.

Let’s see how it’s done.

Irrespective of the product that you want, Signing up is a must step for building the WordPress Android app.

You can register and log in here, to get full access to the WordPress Android app building platform

Now you can Choose WordPress app builder from the home page

There you go now you can create your own WordPress App for website

WordPress Android App

After choosing the WordPress App builder, the following steps to create a WordPress app are quite simple.

#1. Give your app a name

This name which you enter here can be changed anytime easily with the WordPress App CMS.

#2. Upload an App icon

Be wise when you choose one, Icons can speak a lot of your app, and it’s one factor that affects the app download count.

#3. Upload WordPress website URL

This step is necessary since your WordPress website has to be integrated with the site.

#4 Toolbar logo

Toolbar Logo is not essential. If required you can enable toolbar logo and upload an image.

#5 Splash Screen

A Splash Screen is the first image screen that is displayed when the app is loaded. Mostly the picture is the logo of your brand. A Splash Screen is also optional for your app.

A WordPress blog app build with appmaker

That’s all the for the initial setup.

Click on the ‘next’ option to enable a navigation menu for your app and click the ‘submit’ button.

And now your WordPress Android app is Ready!

Installing WordPress app Plugin

Building the WordPress app is done, next, you’ll have to install appmaker’s WordPress app plugin on your WordPress website.

For that, you can either click the ‘click now’ button that appears on the screen, just as shown in the above image

You can search for “ Appmaker WP Mobile App Manager” in the WordPress admin -> Plugins ->add new and copy paste the credentials.

Now your WordPress App is ready. Hereafter you can manage the WordPress app efficiently from the WordPress App CMS.

Just as in the above image, You can upload the app into AppStore or send the link to users.

And it’s from this dashboard the entire app is managed. Like,

Upload WordPress App to PlayStore
Update App
Customize app In-App Pages
Manage Navigation Bar
Send personalized push notifications

It’s not just converting WordPress to a mobile app. The apps that are built with appmaker’s WordPress app builder are purely native WordPress App.

Building a WordPress Blog App / WordPress News App

You might be wondering how this WordPress app builder is going to work for your WordPress Blog app or news App.

Whether it be a news app, WordPress Blog app or business app, the steps to create a WordPress app here is the same for all. Let me show you how simple it is to manage a WordPress Blog app or a news app using appmaker’s WordPress app CMS.

Managing WordPress App Content: In-App Pages

Customizing WordPress App Theme

You can customize your WordPress app theme and layout easily from the WordPress App dashboard.

Click on the In-app pages option on the Dash Board to add, edit and remove widgets.

You can create many In-app pages and give action to each one, Don’t be worried about limits in Creating In-app Pages. Its limitless and you can add endless articles, posts, Images and more.

Personalized Push Notification for WordPress App

The WordPress App dashboard has made it simple to customize push notification and send them to users.

Click on the ‘push notification button’ that you see on the sidebar.

Here you can create a push notification by entering a title, message. And an Action for each push notification.

Click on the push notification button that you see on the sidebar.