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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—changing the layout of the menu on small screens


All of the changes we're going to make to our menu will be for phones in either landscape or portrait mode. The first one is to adjust the layout of the menu so that each link is nice and big, and easy to accurately tap on. To change the layout of the menu on small screens, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. First, let's find the media query for phones in landscape mode:

    /*smartphones in landscape mode*/
    @media screen and (max-width: 480px) {
    }
    
  2. 2. To make the links line up one below the other with a large space between them, we will add the following code snippet:

    /* adjust menu layout */
    access {
    background: none;
    }
    access a {
    display: block;
    margin: 5px 0;
    background: #ccfeff;
    padding: 10px 0;
    }
    

Now let's have a look at what the preceding code snippet does.

What just happened?

We added some code within the media query for phones in landscape mode to alter the layout of the navigation menu. Let's look at the code and identify its...