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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—testing our site in Opera Mini Simulator


Let's take a look at Opera Mini Simulator. To test our site in Opera Mini Simulator, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. To access Opera Mini Simulator, we will go to http://www.opera.com/developer/tools/mini.

  2. 2. We will type in the URL of our website in the simulator and click on Go.

  3. 3. The simulator displays our site as it looks on Opera Mini.

What just happened?

We accessed Opera Mini Simulator and tested it with the Carborelli's site. Let's see how the site looks, as shown in the following screenshot:

Opera Mini displays the content we need it to, although some of the styling isn't quite right. It doesn't render rounded corners, as they use CSS3 (which Opera Mini doesn't read), and it hasn't centered the text inside the buttons. We could use this information to make tweaks to our code or to decide what we can live with—we can certainly live without rounded corners in this case!

So, that's the two Opera browsers catered for—but what about...