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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—adjusting the video width


Let's adjust the width of the video in line with our layout. Perform the following steps for doing so:

  1. 1. We will return to the YouTube page and scroll down a bit to see that there are options for our video size. There are four standard sizes or we can create a custom one on our own.

  2. 2. Let's choose the 640 x 480 (640px wide by 480px high) option, as that's the closest to the width of our content. It's not worth worrying about the exact dimensions, as we're going to add responsiveness to our video shortly:

  3. 3. We will copy the following new code and paste that into our page to replace the old code:

    <iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/k3-EFN2Eohc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
    
  4. 4. Finally, we will click on Update to save our changes.

What just happened?

We replaced our video code to fit better in the layout. Let's see how it looks, as shown in the following screenshot:

That's better. Now let's see how...