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WordPress Responsive Theme Design

By : Dejan Markovic
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WordPress Responsive Theme Design

By: Dejan Markovic

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<p>WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool, which runs on a web hosting service. It is used to implement responsive themes, to make WordPress sites optimized for mobile devices.</p> <p>This book will teach you how to design and develop your very own responsive WordPress theme and also submit your theme to the WordPress.org repository. The book starts with an introduction to the Responsive Web Design concepts and techniques. Then, it explains how to set up a local WordPress environment and also helps you understand the structure of the WordPress theme. Finally, we learn to create responsive comments in WordPress and also have a look at static pages and index templates. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of responsive theme development in WordPress and a WordPress Codex.</p>

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WordPress Responsive Theme Design
Dejan Markovic
Jun, 2015 | 228 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress Responsive Theme Design
WordPress Responsive Theme Design
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Responsive Web Design with WordPress
Responsive Web Design with WordPress
The concepts of RWD
Techniques in RWD
Setting up the WordPress environment
Summary
2
Understanding the WordPress Theme Structure
Understanding the WordPress Theme Structure
Setting WordPress permalinks
Summary
3
Getting Started with Responsive Layout
Getting Started with Responsive Layout
Choosing the right tool for our project
Adding media queries
Summary
4
Learn How to Create the Header and Navigation
Learn How to Create the Header and Navigation
Making our layout centered
Dealing with the header
How to create a menu and make it responsive and accessible
How to make our menu accessible
How to make our menu responsive
Summary
5
Customizing Single Post Templates
Customizing Single Post Templates
Analyzing single post templates
Analyzing the content-single.php file
Tags
Summary
6
Responsive Widgets, Footer, and Comments
Responsive Widgets, Footer, and Comments
Widgets
Working with comments
Summary
7
Working with Images and Videos
Working with Images and Videos
Featured images
Setting up a featured image
Resizing featured images
Image captions
Image galleries
Making the gallery responsive
Working with videos
Summary
8
Working with Template Files
Working with Template Files
The WordPress template hierarchy
Excerpts
Featured images
Customizing the paging navigation
Styling sticky posts
Modifying archive.php
Modifying 404.php
Modifying search.php
Summary
9
Working with Static Pages and Adding the Extra Functionality with Plugins
Working with Static Pages and Adding the Extra Functionality with Plugins
Home page
The home page template
Styles for the home template
Slider plugin
The Services section (list of services)
Making our home page responsive
The Contact Us page
Summary
10
Submitting Your Theme to WordPress.org
Submitting Your Theme to WordPress.org
Polishing code before submission
Applying the editor styles
Validating the HTML and CSS code
Validating the JavaScript code
Validating the PHP code
Debugging the setup
Multiple wp-config.php sets
Running a theme check plugin
Summary
Index
Index

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