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Turn your WordPress blog into a Windows 10 app with the latest Windows App Studio update

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Microsoft's free Windows App Studio tools have added some new features for anyone who wants to make a quick and easy Windows 10 app without any coding. One of them will allow a WordPress blog to be displayed in a Windows 10 app. Microsoft says: "We introduced a new WordPress data source that lets you connect your app to your WordPress blog. It pulls in content and displays it beautifully in your app so you can free your blog from the web and get it in front of 110+ million Windows 10 users by publishing it to the Store." Microsoft has also added a Microsoft Ad control to the Windows App Studio tools, which will allow users to include ad banners, with content provided by Microsoft Advertising, as a way to gain revenue. Finally, there's also a way to include any links to related content in the app: "Did you ever want to show related content in a section (such as speaker information for an event listing in a Convention app, or comments from a b

WordPress.com launches desktop Windows App for direct blog management

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WordPress.com, one of the biggest blogging service in the world with hundreds of millions of blogs, has launched a dedicated desktop app for all versions of Windows. It allows users to write and manage their blogs without having to access a web browser. Now you can manage your sites, write and publish, and even customize your site and view stats from a dedicated app in your Windows Start Menu.