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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—styling the new mobile menus


Let's edit the CSS to get our new mobile menus looking good. Perform the following steps for doing so:

  1. 1. The first step is to style the top menu so that the links appear side by side. This time in the media query for screens with 480px of width or less, we will add the following code snippet:

    #access #menu-mobile-top li {
    width: 23.5%;
    margin-left: 2%;
    float: left;
    }
    #access #menu-mobile-top li:first-child {
    margin-left: 0;
    }
    

    We will now have a row of tappable links next to each other.

    Note

    WordPress automatically generates an ID for each menu we add—#menu-mobile-top in this case. This is comprised of menu- (which is automatic), plus mobile-top (which is the name we gave to our menu on the Menus admin screen).

  2. 2. Next, we need to remove the space between the menu and the content. This is actually due to some padding on the #main element, so we add some styling to change that in our media query:

    #main {
    padding: 5px;
    }
    

Having done that, our menus should...