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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

Creating a web app using a plugin


There are a number of plugins, which will give a site a more app-like feel, rather than simply being a mobile version of the site. These include the following:

  • The App maker: The App maker creates a custom post type of app, and then displays those custom posts within the app—meaning that it’s possible to have separate content in the app and the main site. You can find more information about The App maker at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ the-app-maker/.

    Note

    Custom post types are a special kind of content in WordPress, which works in the same way as a post or page but gives you more flexibility. To learn about custom post types, go to http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types.

  • Weever Apps: This plugin creates some nice app-like navigation icons at the bottom of the page, and can access functionality such as geolocation for maps and social media feeds. It requires the use of a free subscription key. You can find more information about Weever Apps at http...