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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

Adding video to our site


Having identified some ways to make our images responsive, let's move on to video.

Note

Images are by far the most common media added to websites, but video is probably the second. Including video clips on your site can increase visitor engagement and improve your search engine rankings. After all, Google owns YouTube so Google loves video, right?

Displaying video effectively on different device types can be tricky. Let's look at how we can display video on our site and then make sure it works on different screen widths.

Displaying video—choosing a method

Before we start, let's look at some of the methods for displaying video on our site.

Using Flash

Flash is a browser plugin created by Adobe. The Flash player is free and plays a variety of interactive and rich media content, such as video, animation, and games. However, it has three main drawbacks as follows:

  • It uses large files and can slow a site down

  • The iOS devices, such as iPads, iPhones, and iPods don't display it...