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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

Summary


In this chapter we looked at two popular forms of media on our website and identified ways to make them responsive. In particular, we used CSS to make images display responsively so that they fit in our responsive layout. We learned how to use WordPress featured images combined with a plugin to deliver different image sizes to different devices. We looked at some alternative approaches to responsive images and how they might apply to our site. We examined some of the alternatives for showing video on our site. We also learned how to embed video from YouTube and how to use CSS (and a bit of HTML) to make that video responsive.

We looked at how to send different images to different devices, and in the next chapter we will expand on this to learn how to send different content to different devices. This is something that will be more relevant for some sites than others, and before we learn how to do it, we will look at the reasons we might want to have our site work differently on different...