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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—integrating with PayPal


The next step is to add PayPal integration. Perform the following steps for doing so:

  1. 1. Gravity Forms has an add-on plugin that adds PayPal integration, called Gravity Forms PayPal Payments Standard Add-On (http://www.gravityforms.com/add-ons/paypal/). It’s only available to users with a Gravity Forms developer license, so you may choose to use another PayPal plugin instead—see the list earlier in this chapter for some suggestions.

  2. 2. We already have the plugin installed and activated on our site, so we will click on Forms and then PayPal to set it up.

  3. 3. The PayPal Settings page is telling us that we need to set up IPN on our PayPal account in order to integrate PayPal with Gravity Forms. We will copy the notification URL on the page and then click on Choose IPN settings to access the IPN page in PayPal:

  4. 4. We will paste our notification URL into the Notification URL field and click on Save.

    Note

    IPN stands for Instant Payment Notification. It is the system...