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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

About the Reviewers

Evangelos Evangelou currently lives in Cyprus and is the Creative Director of PricklyPear Media.

Evangelos was born in the UK to Cypriot refugee parents from Kyrenia. His parents came to the UK in the mid-80s where they had their own catering business.

In 2005, Evangelos completed an honors B.Sc. degree in Web & Multimedia from the University of Central Lancashire. His studies were later finalized with an M.A. in Animation. Soon after his degree, Evangelos moved to Cyprus where he worked for SpiderNet (now PrimeTel—currently the largest ISP on the island) creating and building professional websites.

During his time of employment, he worked on several large-scale websites, including three of Cyprus' biggest websites such as Cyprus Airways, PhileNews, and the University of Cyprus. Soon after, PricklyPear Media Ltd. was created.

Now, Evangelos spends much of his time with personal clients and template production with Vorel Media, founded by Evangelos Evangelou and his good friend Bryan Vorel.

Evangelos has experience in WordPress, SEO, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and template production. He is also a strong forum member on SitePoint, and was recently given a 'mentor' badge. On that note, Evangelos loves what he does and loves life!