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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—configuring the WordPress Mobile Pack plugin as a theme switcher


To configure the WordPress Mobile Pack plugin as a theme switcher, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Download WordPress Mobile Pack from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mobile-pack/ if you haven’t already, and activate it.

  2. 2. On the Mobile Switcher screen, select the responsive theme from the Mobile theme drop-down list. Here, we will select Ari, as shown in the following screenshot. Click on Save Changes.

  3. 3. Now, let’s see how the site looks, firstly on a desktop and then on a mobile. Note that the site will look the same on tablets as it does on the desktop, as the theme switcher is only activated for mobile devices. The following screenshot shows how the site looks on the desktop:

    The look of the site on the mobile is shown in the following screenshot:

What just happened?

Using a theme switcher plugin (WordPress Mobile Pack), we configured our site so that people visiting it on desktop PCs will see...