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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

Time for action—switching our User Agent


Ok, so let's fool desktop Safari into behaving like Safari on the iPhone. Perform the following steps for doing so:

  1. 1. Let's start by opening the Safari browser for Mac. We will change the User Agent using an option on the Develop menu.

    Note

    If you don't already have the Safari Develop menu activated, you can do so via Safari's Preferences menu. For instructions, see http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/appleapplications/Conceptual/Safari_Developer_Guide/2SafariDeveloperTools/SafariDeveloperTools.html.

  2. 2. We will click on Develop and then on User Agent to see a list of possible User Agents, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. We will select the User Agent we want to make use of—in this case, Safari iOS 4.3.3—iPhone.

  4. 4. If we resize the browser window, the site will appear as it would on an iPhone.

What just happened?

We told the desktop Safari browser to use the mobile Safari User Agent, so that the site would display as it would...