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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—writing our first media query


To add custom CSS for a device of a particular width, we use max-width, so the code for iPads would be as follows:

@ media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
}

What this code does is to identify that the site is being visited on a device with a maximum screen width of 768px. The CSS goes between the braces.

So, let's see how it works by adding some styling for iPads. Perform the following steps:

  1. 1. At the bottom of the stylesheet, we will add a section for mobile styling. The Carborelli's site has numbered sections in its stylesheet, so at the top of our new section we will add the following line of code:

    /* 6. Media queries */
    
  2. 2. Beneath the preceding line of code, we will add the following code snippet:

    /*iPads in portrait mode*/
    @media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
    }
    

    You'll notice the comments that are always useful to help us keep track of what device we're targeting.

  3. 3. Next, inside the curly brackets, we will add styling to change the size of...