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Apps Is it possible to take a wordpress mobile website and make it into an app?

Random Brandon

Random Brandon

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Just to note I have very little programming expirence so if this is possible to do I'll be looking for someone to develop it.

I have a wordpress site with a responsive theme for mobile and I was wondering if it was possible to take that theme, place it to an app and it would recieve updates from the msql server. Sorta like how twitter and facebook mobile have the same design as the apps.

Thanks for any help and if you need more info just ask.
 
There are two things you could do here:

1) just use a WebView inside your app and point it to your mobile site

Pros:
easy as pie to implement, no optimizations needed
Cons:
not very intuitive. WebViews are meant for displaying quick one page web sites, not to reproduce a web page as an app.


2) Create a custom, from-scratch app using your wordpress database.

Pros: more user friendly and even more intuitive. UI can be tailored to provide an easier to use interface.

Cons: much, much harder to implement, requires you to be familiar with database queries, PHP, and the ability to hose a custom PHP scripts on your blog's web host.
 
jonbonazza said:
There are two things you could do here:

1) just use a WebView inside your app and point it to your mobile site

Pros:
easy as pie to implement, no optimizations needed
Cons:
not very intuitive. WebViews are meant for displaying quick one page web sites, not to reproduce a web page as an app.


2) Create a custom, from-scratch app using your wordpress database.

Pros: more user friendly and even more intuitive. UI can be tailored to provide an easier to use interface.

Cons: much, much harder to implement, requires you to be familiar with database queries, PHP, and the ability to hose a custom PHP scripts on your blog's web host.
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Thanks ... I have the things to do both but if I can't hire a person to help me create an app from scratch, I guess I'll try using just webview and point it to just the blogs
 
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