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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—adding a video to our site


First we're going to stream a video from YouTube to the Carborelli's site. Normally, we would start by creating a video and uploading it to YouTube but, unfortunately, Carborelli's doesn't have one of its own yet, so I'm going to use a video already available on YouTube.

Note

To learn how to upload a video to YouTube, see http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_upload.

  1. 1. We will start by opening the editing screen for the post or page we want to embed the video in. In this case it's the About page.

  2. 2. We will open the page of the video on YouTube—I'm using a Two Ronnies sketch from 1977 set in an ice cream parlor (I promise this chapter isn't all going to be from the 1970s!). This video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3-EFN2Eohc, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. On the YouTube page, we will click on the Share button beneath the video and then on the Embed button. This gives us the code needed to stream our video as follows:

    <iframe width="420...