Glossary
Several of these words mean something narrower here than they do generally.
AAB — Android App Bundle. The format Google Play accepts. Cannot be installed directly on a phone. See APK and AAB.
APK — Android Package. Installable directly on a phone. Not accepted by Play for new apps.
Application password — A WordPress credential, created under Users → Profile, that authenticates an application without exposing your account password. Revocable independently.
Background feature — A screen reached by tapping rather than by navigating: Single Post, Single Page, Activity Thread, Verified Users, Online Users. One of each per app.
Build — One compile of your configuration into an installable app. Metered per month per account, and counted whether or not it succeeds.
Capability — What the plugin reports about your site: which plugins are active, and whether keys for push, Turnstile and Maps are present. Never the key values themselves.
Endpoint group — A named set of REST routes, switched on or off together under Memberside → REST API. Thirty of them. All off by default.
Entitlement — What a plan allows. Resolved in order: administrator-assigned tier, then paid subscription, then active trial, then Free.
Feature — One screen you can place in navigation. There are around fifty; see the catalogue.
Global App Settings — Settings that apply to the whole app: colours, typography, background style, icons, connection and keys. The Settings button in the builder header.
Launcher — The splash screen shown while the app starts.
Navigation zone — One of five places a feature can go: Bottom Nav, Top Nav, Upper Nav, Side Nav, Background.
Parent Menu — A sidebar-only container holding up to five sub-items.
Preview — The phone frame in the builder, rendering real screens against your connected site. Free, unlike a build.
Sample data — Placeholder members, posts and products shown in the preview when no site is connected. Seeing it when you expected your own content means the connection failed.
Sidebar drawer — The Side Nav zone, opened by a Sidebar Trigger feature. An app can have more than one, each named.
Tab settings — Settings for one placed feature. Three tabs: Appearance, Features, Restrictions.
Template screen — A screen you composed from blocks in the Template Builder, rather than one built from a plugin.
Theme — Ambiguous, so this documentation avoids it alone. Three separate things: your app’s light/dark palette, the builder’s interface theme, and this documentation site’s. Changing one never changes another.
Upper Nav — The top-most header bar, above the top nav. Three slots, none on Free.
Wall — The memberside/v2 endpoint namespace behind the news feed, activity
threads and group discussions.
Webview — A screen that renders a page from your website inside the app, rather than natively. Used where no native screen exists — WooCommerce checkout, for instance.