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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

Chapter 6. Optimizing Images and Video

Now we have a site that looks great on mobiles and has a much better user experience on them, too. The next thing to turn our attention to is images and other media.

When working with images for mobile devices, we need to consider two things. The first one is how they fit within the responsive layout. This is fairly straightforward to address, and we will explore two methods which use CSS. The second thing is the image files being downloaded and how big they are—we will examine some methods for sending smaller image files to mobiles.

We will also take a look at video for mobile, and work though another two issues. The first one is making any video fit within the small screen layout, which as we will see requires a bit more code that we will need to get our images to fit. And, the second one is ensuring our video is compatible with a range of mobile devices and plays correctly. We'll look at using third-party video streaming services, for example YouTube...