Rating: 4 stars
The truly great innovation of WP is plugins. They let content developers concentrate on what they do best. WP App Studio allows system analysts to design plugins that work, without endless months of coding. Basically, if you can imagine it, you can build it with WP App Studio.
You want a custom application to track workflow for your small manufacturing business? Yeah, it can do that. Need to monitor habitat restoration activities for 2,000 acre wildlife preserve? No problem. Create a sophisticated political opposition research? Piece of cake. WP is a database driven software development environment for web development. WP App Studio is the first plugin I have seen that gets that very basic concept and so fully exploits its strength.
The tool is very powerful, so it takes time to learn how to exploit all that power. Once mastered, this toolset dramatically speeds up web development. It can easily reduce time to launch by a factor or four times or more. Basically, you jump from design pretty much directly to testing.
So, where is the fifth star?? As powerful as this toolset is, the documentation, training and customer support just do not measure up. If eMarketDesign gets those things right, there is no telling how much WP App Studio could change the Internet. If that sounds like hyperbole, it’s not.
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This is a pretty cool plugin overall. It makes it easy to develop simple apps with just a little programming.
I have a couple of complaints, however.
First, you can’t do much with the basic license, they kinda force you into using an expensive monthly subscription to the “Pro Dev” license. Being a bit of a newbie, I did not know this. I also purchased a connection that I am not even sure I can use.
Second, support is slow if existent at all.
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Deberia al menos permitir generar una app basica sin tener que pagar por una licencia, intente hacer una muy sencilla y no pude ni ver como se mostraba en mi sitio al no dejarme generarla, creo que pagar por algo que no puedes ni probar es una estafa.
Es por eso que no puedo ni darle dos estrellas.
Rating: 5 stars
Great application, very good indeed, I am translating to Portuguese from Brazil in order to facilitate the use and development of applications in the land.
Congratulations to the WP App Studio team.
Rating: 5 stars
I had this plugin on my bookmarks for years… Finally I landed a project to test it out. I thought the project and WPAS were going to be a piece of cake. It kind of was but it took longer than I spected…
WPAS is a very complete suite for creating complete control / collaboration solutions. There’s always a learning curve but you get examples, docs and something I’ve abused even having Pro-Dev: support.
I’m listing some suggestions for anyone who’s interested in using WPAS:
I strongly recommend WPAS for non-mission-critical applications/solutions for small business or group of users to control/share/manage document centered processes… like office automation apps: inquiries, registration, resource sharing (like meeting rooms), errands, vacations, hiring, contracts or events.
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Impressiona a facilidade de aprendizado com um pouco de paciência para aprender a tela. Muito bom. Tem entidades, relacionamentos, formulários, views, etc. Depois de tudo montado, gerar um novo plugin com toda a customiza??o é fantástico. Parabéns!
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Do not buy this plugin – it is absolutely horrible. It will ruin your wordpress site. Horrible support – rude people. Husband and wife running a joke of a business and neither seem to know what their doing. Most importantly, the plugin doesn’t work as advertised and they refuse to give a refund. I have proof that I requested a refund months ago and was refused. Do yourself a favor, and don’t get scammed.
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Me parece excelente plugin. Lo estoy probando
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First of all, it has been a long time since I have been a full-time developer so some of the previous, more detailed comments regarding code quality and security holes are a bit lost on me currently.
What I am though, is an agency owner looking to broaden my client product offering in as streamlined manner as possible (ie, not hand-coding all of the tools that my clients are looking for).
This tool does just that. It is flexible enough so that I can take my models and architecture and plug them into their infrastructure and with some more tweaks I have a product that I can offer my clients.
Have their been bumps along the way? Of course there have been. But, with a product of this scale, wouldn’t you expect some. I need to emphasize, though, that when I do encounter said bumps, the support they provide is fantastic. Furthermore, when I have encountered gaps in functionality that they offer and what I require, I soon find out that they have similar items already included in their roadmap.
In short, this plugin does what it says it does.
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What a great way to build an app fast.
There’s a few plugins around like this, but this is the most comprehensive.
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As for the lame insecure and security comments, ignore anyone that doesn’t explain why… as usually they are junior programmers with 5 minutes of knowledge about the internet and security.
If every plugin that talks to a 3rd party service was insecure, better stop using Eventbrite.com and DigitalTickets.net ticketing plugins also. Ignore the insecure comments, they are talking about their jobs, not this plugin which runs securely.
Man in the middle attacks are only a problem if the code you are running at the time is from a 3rd party server, but some people with 2c of knowledge go barking up the wrong tree… if they know that much about security (or website speed) they wouldn’t be using WordPress at all. (which is known for it’s constant security holes).
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WP App Studio offers a unique solution to site development not available in any CMS or plugin, empowering users who do not have any programming experience with ability to create something unique.
Unlike other solutions offered here and anywhere else, you do not need another plugin installed or learn how to code using a framework or wait for someone else to be available to create something unique. Unlike any other solutions, you are not limited to certain kind of look and feel in your apps. We try not to change how WordPress works using what’s available without limiting our users.
More power to you, more power to WordPress.
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Great for my WordPress
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?t is open source and very helpfull for me.Great plug in
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Respect for their works.
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Great tool to develop websites. WP development can not be faster than what this platform offers. I would like say a huge thank you to everyone who participated development of this platform.
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Currently using ProDev in one of main websites. the more I use it the more I love it. This platform cut my need for other plugins to almost none.
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Easy to use plugin, and great support. I have requested a new feature and they have implemented in a week. Thanks for the speedy response.
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Great plugin, I started using this for one of my client’s web site, I generated their forms using Bootstrap option and they look great. I look forward to using this more! Thanks , keep up the good work ??
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See Comment from Franz Josef Kaiser
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Insecure.
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The plugin relies on a remote host, which makes it fundamentally insecure. No matter how well the code is written, all it takes is a man in the middle attack and the entire stack is compromised.
It would be better if the generated code was done on the server, and provided on the server like the boilerplate generators. Having a plugin to do it is opening up a security hole.
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See Comment from Franz Josef Kaiser
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You guys know how a SaaS service works right? This plugin interacts with a SaaS service. That in and of itself doesn’t make it malicious.
I haven’t used or looked at the plugin, but the mere fact that it transmits and receives data to a 3rd party service as part of the functionality it provides does not make it malicious.
The plugin itself states that it’s a SaaS solution. It interacts with a SaaS service to provide the functionality it provides.
Long story short: Don’t spread hyperbole unless you know 100% that the intent is malicious.
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See Comment from Franz Josef Kaiser
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The first (and biggest problem) with this plugin is, that it doesn’t generate the code with the plugin code. The plugin is just a proxy that calls a remote server that produces some code and then downloads it into the WP installation. So the owner of the remote server has your installation in his hands. He could send you any sort of code he wants, opening backdoors, hijacking your complete installation.
The other problem is that the code of the plugin is crap. It takes any incoming POST response and just uses it without validation or sanitization. But this is just another security concern.
Long story short: Don’t use this plugin. Simply don’t.
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Franz Josef Kaiser, “Reviewing a plugin with 1 star without having it in use or inspecting the code is worth nothing.” That’s what you did.
You did not review the code it generated. Just looked at the dummy front end and labeled it malicious.
First of all it is SaaS service and the plugin is a dummy front end. it is a collection of forms. Its only purpose is to send app data to the SaaS service which generates pure WP API code. It is not the only plugin functioning as SaaS frontend in the repository. We believe it is a game changer. It simplifies so many things.
How do I know? Our company have been using it for 6 months for our clients. For your knowledge we also employ security experts who check every code we sent to our clients.
Secondly, Wp App Studio is an open source plugin, if you like to improve the code, post your code and ask them to review it. But don’t write BS here with some knowledge you had.
Have something to say, share your “immense” knowledge with us and give specifics so that they can fix in the next release.
Long story short: It is open source, man. Being a hater helps no one.
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