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WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide

By : RACHEL MCCOLLIN
Book Image

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

Outside WordPress—third-party APIs


The WordPress plugins we’ve listed previously generally make use of APIs to add extra functionality to our site.

Note

An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a set of rules that lets you use data from another service in your site or app. For example, you can use the Google Maps API to add maps to your site without having to code on your own, or the twitter API to add a twitter feed.

APIs don’t have to relate to a third-party service though—there are other APIs such as the Geolocation API that have been defined by the W3C (the body that defines the standards by which websites work) rather than by a service provider. For more information and an overview of some of these, see http://www.netmagazine.com/features/developer-s-guide-html5-apis.

Some APIs you might want to use include the following: