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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

Summary


We started this book by finding some plugins that would make our website mobile-friendly with the minimum of customization, and have worked our way through mobile themes, responsive design and media queries, mobile-only content, and finally web apps. We now have a site that is not only mobile-friendly, but also adds some extra functionality for mobile users. Of course, we’d want to build this into an area of the main site too, but that’s a separate task!

In this chapter we learned how to add a form to our web app using a plugin so that users can place an order and how to add integration with PayPal, again using a plugin. We learned how to set up a notification page for our form so that users aren’t left hanging after placing an order and making payment and how to add a map and the directions to our store using the MapPress plugin. We also learned about some other plugins that can help with the building of a web app, and about APIs we can tap into, to add even more functionality.

However...