{"id":78536,"date":"2012-05-24T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=78536"},"modified":"2012-05-24T11:40:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T15:40:37","slug":"wordpress-app-store-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wordpress-app-store-really\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress App Store, Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know what I hate? That everything is an &#8220;app store&#8221; these days. Yeah I know, the shock of me getting to the point right away, huh? Shaking things up is all, and also I&#8217;m hungry as hell and that means I&#8217;m cranky, which in turn means that I want to get straight to the whining.<\/p>\n<p>So, app stores and how everything is called an app store.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like <a href=\"http:\/\/wpappstore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WP App Store<\/a>, for example.<\/strong> I&#8217;m sorry, but that&#8217;s an awful name. Really.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, people get it.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it has brand recognition per default.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, whenever Apple or Microsoft or Amazon manages to get the rights to the word &#8220;app&#8221; you&#8217;ll be royally fucked.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wpappstorenooooo-1024x713.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Noooooo!!!\" width=\"685\" height=\"476\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-78538\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is why I&#8217;ll definitely stealth launch the WPMU.org App Store. You&#8217;ll be able to buy whatever, it doesn&#8217;t matter, this is the legal stranglehold I&#8217;ll use to make The Farmer pay me more than those bloody chocolate kittens. The AMA trio will be my sledgehammer, and all shall shake in fear.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I&#8217;ll just have some dinner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The point? That neither WordPress plugins nor themes are apps.<\/strong> They are in fact plugins and\/or themes, which their actual names sort of hints at.<\/p>\n<p>So there.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, before someone completely freaks out because I haven&#8217;t been nice to anyone in this column, I wish WP App Store all the best. If nothing else, they&#8217;re definitely shaking things up, much as <a href=\"http:\/\/renku.me\/\" target=\"_blank\">Renku<\/a> might end up doing. I think we need to have that commercial WordPress directory talk again soon.<\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s a photo of a dog to brighten your day:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2936111919_605cd92ca7_b.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Doggie!\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78540\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26758236@N05\/2936111919\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tina Li<\/a> (CC)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something something WordPress app stores, in which you might want to cover your kids&#8217; eyes folks. There&#8217;s a BAD WORD in there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131995,"featured_media":78542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,34,10468],"tags":[],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-78536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","category-themes","category-reviews-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131995"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78536"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=78536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}