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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 a mobile-only menu to the site


We have already identified that another circumstance in which we might want to send different content to mobile devices is when the navigation needs to be different for different devices, or perhaps more accurately for different users. Examples of this might be the following:

  • Desktop users come looking for information while mobile users want to perform a task (such as checking in or buying)

  • Desktop and mobile users each want to perform a task, but the tasks are different (for example booking a flight on the desktop, or checking in on mobile)

  • Mobile users need to access certain information quickly, for example the location of a store

As we've already seen, it's important not to make assumptions about differing desktop and mobile use, and it's also crucial not to make content inaccessible to mobile users. Even if the structure of our navigation changes, we still need to include all of the site's content somewhere within that navigation, even if it takes a...