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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

Moving on to the footer


The final part of the site that we need to turn our attention to is the footer. In the case of the Carborelli's site, this only contains some "small print" information, claiming copyright over the content and providing links to the developer and the CMS—WordPress. At the moment, they are floated to each side of the page, which looks fine on large screens but messy on phones, as shown in the following screenshot:

Many other sites, including a fair few I've developed, will include much more in the footer, perhaps incorporating what's known as a "fat footer" with links, recent blog listings, or other information. When we're developing a WordPress site, the best way to build this kind of footer is by using one or more widget areas.

We'll come back to the issue of fat footers and how to change their layout shortly but first, let's look at the Carborelli's footer. It looks fine on tablets in both orientations, so we'll alter it for phones in landscape mode, which will also...