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WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide

By : RACHEL MCCOLLIN
Book Image

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

Reviewing what we've learned about the layout for different screen widths


We've made a lot of changes to our layout in this chapter and looked not only at the CSS needed to do that, but the impact of those changes on user experience. We've covered a few new concepts, so it's worth reviewing some of the key points so as not to forget what we've done.

Pop quiz

  1. 1. Why is it a good idea to adjust the layout of a site for mobile devices? (select all that apply)

    1. a. To make the site easier to read.

    2. b. To make better use of the screen space.

    3. c. To speed up the site on mobiles.

    4. d. To make it easier to tap links with a finger or thumb.

  2. 2. What effect will the following code snippet have on navigation links?

    #menu {
    text-align: center;
    }
    #menu a {
    display: inline;
    }
    #menu li {
    float: none;
    display: inline;
    }
    
    1. a. It will center the links on the screen.

    2. b. It will create larger spaces between the links.

    3. c. It will make the links sit one below the other.

  3. 3. Why will the CSS we write for iPads in portrait mode also...