@patrickcoombe thanks for your interest :)
It doesn't work with WooCommerce right now, but it is something we definitively want to do when Worona 1.0 is out and a bit more mature.
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Wordpress should back you and make it an optional default theme. Publishing a fully working wordpress website on devices might be flawless and natural, show them the way. Thanks.
@steveraffner wow Steve, thanks for such kind words.
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wonderful technology, though I agree with a few commenters above: wordpress sites as apps don't make sense to me. this means that the "app" is simply a bookmark, and that whole metaphor fails a mobile experience. an app that requires unique resources, such as metal graphics components on iOS, that makes sense. an app that is simply a container for a blog - regardless of feature and embellishments - is just a bookmark. I'm certain that there's a line to draw in there, someplace between local resources and web pull/rss type content, but that's just my take...
@passingnotes Hey David, thanks for your feedback. We know that not everybody will download an app just to read content from a site, we also know that lot of people find this more convenient than accessing an site.
We are already working to evolve our UI/UX from a simple container to an App that really improves web experience. But as we have said before, what you are seeing is our beta, we didn't expect to be featured here before our 1.0. All this comments are really helping us :)
@ricricucit Hello Enrico, thanks for your feedback :)
The ultimate goal of Worona is to provide the best experience for WordPress sites on mobile devices. Apps are just the starting point to provide this delightful mobile experience. We saw that WordPress owners were asking for Apps so we provided them a free & Open Source solution.
You can read a bit more about our vision here: https://blog.worona.org/the-maki...
@poliukgv not sure wordpress-to-app is a service I'll ever be interested in.
...and I still think some use cases would help your marketing pages
to actually show the most common uses, based on real-world applications.
Also because after your answer, I still don't get the point :)
Anyway, just my 2 cents.
Good luck!
@ricricucit right now, our technology is only able to turn simple WordPress sites into Apps. Most of the apps created using worona are blogs and newspapers.
The Apps allow users to access content offline, and also to receive push notifications.
We really appreciate your suggestion, real examples are something we definitely have to add to our site.
@poliukgv@ricricucit yeah it would really help to have real examples of WordPress sites converting over. The problem I see that most large blogs now distribute content through social media and some smaller ones have moved to Medium or other platforms. I don't know when I think about installing an app of any of the blogs I consume I don't know if I really would. I already have too many apps. I see notifications powerful as an external trigger much better than Email. Especially since iOS doesn't support Web notifications yet but I wonder if you'll get users to install an app just for that. What else makes the experience better over the mobile web to users?
@kesslerio hey Martin, thanks for joinin the conversation!
We totally agree with you, blogs now distribute content using multiple channels. We consider this a great opportunity. Our goal is to provide WordPress administrators the best tool to adapt their sites for mobile consumption, and Apps are only one of the channels to cover. We have plans to add more services to our platform: AMP (for Google searches & Twitter), Facebook Instant Articles, Web-Apps (for people who won't install the App version of the site :wink: ). There is still a lot of work to do but we want WordPress Administrators to be one-click away from adapting their sites to all the mobile distribution channels.
Mobile Apps have features that make them more convenient than websites (specially sites with server side rendering). Offline content, Instant loading and push notifications are some of those features. HTML5 is bringing most of these features to mobile sites, and we are going to be able to provide the same "app-like" experience in webapps (you can read more here: https://blog.worona.org/the-maki...). We understand some people won't install apps, but others find them more useful than accessing and URL, in any case we will cover both channels.
Medium is becoming really big, and lot of people is leaving their personal WordPress blogs. At the same time WordPress is growing and now powers 26% of the sites, so we still consider WordPress a great market to cover.
@valdecarpentrie The current version is only able to create mobile apps to publish in the Google Play and the Apple App Store.
We are developing the new version of the platform (Worona 1.0), which will allow people to create webapps also. You can read about this here: https://blog.worona.org/the-maki...
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Looks like a very cool product Pablo, I will be trying this out on a few wordpress sites I run.
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