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WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide

By : RACHEL MCCOLLIN
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WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide

By: RACHEL MCCOLLIN

Overview of this book

The chances are that more of your WordPress website visitors are using mobiles, or more clients are demanding responsive or mobile sites. If you can use WordPress to build mobile-friendly sites you can win more business from clients and more traffic for your site. "WordPress Mobile Web Development Beginner's Guide" will benefit you whether you've dabbled in WordPress or worked with it for years. It will help you identify which approach to mobile is most appropriate for your site (responsive, mobile, or web app) and learn how to make each one work, demonstrating a variety of techniques from the simple to the more complex, working through clear practical examples and applying these to your own website. Start by quickly making a WordPress site mobile-friendly, using off the shelf plugins and responsive themes, choosing the best ones for you and customising them. This leads into responsive theme design, with advice on layout, images and navigation. Finally, learn how to build a web app in WordPress, making use of plugins, APIs and custom code. If you need to hit the ground running with mobile WordPress development, then this book is for you. With practical examples and exercises from the beginning, it will help you build your first mobile WordPress site without having to learn aspects of WordPress or mobile development that aren't relevant. It will also help you understand which approaches work and why, so you can apply this knowledge to future projects.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
WordPress Mobile Web Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Acknowledgement
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 10. Testing and Updating your Mobile Site

So, our website is not only responsive now but also works as a web app, allowing our visitors to build and order ice cream sundaes.

Unfortunately, our work is not yet done. Before it's launched and while it's being developed, it's crucial to test that our site works in a variety of browsers, on a variety of devices. And once it's been tested and launched, we might want to think about how we, or the site's owner, might update it using our own mobile device.

This chapter will cover both of those areas. We'll learn the following:

  • The pros and cons of testing on actual mobile devices

  • Different methods to emulate mobile devices in a desktop browser

  • How to update and edit our site using a mobile device

So, let's start by thinking about testing methods.