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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—tweaking the content and sidebar layout for phones in landscape mode


Let's start by seeing what effect our CSS for tablets has had on our full home page on 480px-wide screens, for example phones in landscape orientation, as shown in the following screenshot:

I don't know about you, but I think that looks pretty good. The Search widget actually looks better at this width, because the button drops below the input box, filling some of that empty space. The map is small, but remember that people viewing the site on a smartphone will be able to tap on that map and it will take them to the location page or to the Maps application on their phone.

The only niggle is the fact that the Search button is right up against the input box above it, and could do with some breathing room. So let's write the CSS to make that happen. Perform the following steps to do so:

  1. 1. First, we will find the media query for this screen width as follows:

    /*smartphones in landscape mode*/
    @media screen and ...