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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

Taking it further—using a responsive theme just for mobile devices


It may have occurred to you while working through this chapter that some of these themes give the Carborelli’s site a look and functionality that is great on mobiles. But, it’s a shame to lose the desktop theme with all its detail and elements such as the call to action button and contact details in the header.

It will probably also have occurred to you that some of these themes gave us a really quick and easy way to create a responsive site without writing any code.

So, what if we could have our cake (or our ice cream) and eat it? Is there a way to display the existing theme for desktop visitors, but display a responsive theme for mobile and possibly tablet visitors?

The great answer is yes, there is, and it involves the use of theme switchers.

Note

Do you remember what a switcher is, which we saw in Chapter 1, Using Plugins to Make Your Site Mobile-friendly? It’s a plugin that switches the site’s theme when someone visits it...