Apps to WordPress content?
Did you know, that it’s possible to embed a React or Vue application onto a WordPress page? On an existing site, it’s easy with a custom plugin. We create the app, wrap it into a custom plugin, you install and activate the plugin as you would with any WordPress plugin, and use a shortcode to place the app where ever in the content you want to have it. Easy.
Why an app?
An application is a good and fast way to provide dynamic content, depending on user interaction, or execute some kind of a transaction with the user. Since the app runs on the browser, not the server, it’s really fast. The React or Vue app can read (and write) data from your site’s database, make queries to third party APIs, or both. An application is a modern way to create complete sites, for that matter, but also available to individual WordPress pages. We supply embedded React.js or Vue.js apps to your WordPress site.
Example application
The example shows a React app, embedded with a custom plugin, displaying a simple loan calculation. The app is placed on this page with a shortcode written in an ordinary content field.
The app has inputs for loan principal, interest rate, term and type. With sufficient input data, the app shows a few key numbers of the loan you’re planning to get.
As you can see, the app does not in any way visually stand out from the rest of the content on the page. Unless you want it to.
As you also can see, the app can be localized. Switch to the Finnish version of this page and the same app will run in Finnish.