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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 with the Ripple extension for Chrome


Let's see how we can use a Google Chrome extension to test for a variety of devices. Perform the following steps for doing so:

  1. 1. The Chrome extension we want to use is called Ripple. We will launch Google Chrome and access it at http://ripple.tinyhippos.com/, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. To download this extension, we will click on Get Ripple and then on Install. We are then presented with the chrome web store screen, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. We will click on ADD TO CHROME.

  4. 4. Once the extension has been installed, an icon appears in the toolbar. We will click on that to activate the extension for the current page, as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. 5. To activate the extension, we will click on Enable and then on Mobile Web. We are then presented with the site, as it appears on a mobile device, along with a number of options, as shown in the following screenshot:

  6. 6. We can select from a list of devices...