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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

Summary


We've seen in this chapter that developing a responsive site isn't just about the layout, it's also about usability or user experience. Specifically, we covered how to convert the text from pixels to ems and its benefits, adjusting text sizes on different devices for enhanced legibility, and designing a more ergonomic navigation menu for small screens with links that are large and easily tapped. We also covered changing the position of the navigation on small screens so that it doesn't dominate the top of the page and to make it easier to use. We also learned about adding a link to our repositioned menu, using a link and anchor, and styling them to fit with our design.

Our site is now looking and working really well, but there is yet more we can do to improve it. In the next chapter, we'll be focusing on images—how to ensure they fit within a responsive layout and how to optimize image files for mobile devices.