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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—setting up Opera Mobile Emulator


First, let's set up Opera Mobile Emulator. The Opera Mobile browser is available for a wide cross-section of mobile devices and the emulator is extremely accurate. For setting up Opera Mobile Emulator, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. To download Opera Mobile Emulator, we will go to http://www.opera.com/developer/tools/mobile/ and click on the Download button—the exact wording on the button will depend on the latest version number and the operating system we are running:

  2. 2. We will run through the download and installation process, specifying where we want to save the application.

  3. 3. Once this application is downloaded, we will launch it. The first screen we are presented with asks us to choose the device we want to emulate, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. 4. We will select the device we want to emulate, and click on Launch.

  5. 5. If this is the first time we have used this application, we will be asked to accept the license agreement—we will...