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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

Writing our media queries


Now for some fun, we're going to add some media queries to our theme's stylesheet. The best place to do this is all together at the end, for the following reasons:

  • It makes it easy for us to work with

  • More importantly, it means that any styling we define for smaller devices will override other styling for the same elements higher up in the stylesheet

You may have heard of the concept of Mobile First, where mobile styling is set first and then changes are added for desktop sites. This can help to speed up a mobile site, as the browser doesn't have to work its way through all the desktop styling first, and is definitely a method to consider. However, as we already have a site aimed at desktops, we will place our mobile styling at the end of our stylesheet, and start with the device closest to the size of a desktop monitor—the iPad in portrait mode.

Note

You can find out more about Mobile First in Luke Wroblewski's blog at http://www.lukew.com/.