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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—installing the mobble plugin


The plugin is installed and activated just like any other. Perform the following steps:

  1. 1. On the Install Plugins screen, search for mobble. This gives a list of just one plugin—the one with that name, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. Install and activate the plugin.

What just happened?

We installed and activated the mobble plugin. We now have access to a number of conditional statements to detect and work with different devices. The simplest, and the one we will be using here, is is_mobile().

Note

For a full list of the conditional functions available with the mobble plugin and how it works, go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mobble/.

Now that we have the plugin, we need to add some PHP code to our theme files to display the right image at the right place.

The code we need to edit is within the Loop. Depending on how our theme is set up, this will either be in a theme file of its own, called loop.php, or within another theme file (or more...