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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

Acknowledgement

I'd like to thank Packt Publishing, who gave me this opportunity in reviewing such a great book. I would also like to thank SitePoint for being such a great place for web designers.

My personal life is also very important, this acknowledgment goes to my loving parents, who made sure I was happy and had everything, achieving the unimaginable for their children (as in their mind we're still kids). I'd like to thank my four brothers for the support that they gave while reviewing this book, which would have been impossible without their constant re-enforcement.

Apart from my family, I'd like to thank everybody who helped PricklyPear Media in making it what it is today; this includes my past employers and co-workers. I look forward to Packt Publishing publishing more amazing books.

Steve Graham is an Entrepreneur and Web Developer specializing in WordPress websites. As a co-owner of Internet Mentor (http://internet-mentor.co.uk/meet-the-team/), he aims to ensure that all of his clients derive measurable and sustainable direct results that drive business growth.

Steve focuses on enabling clients, whether this is in relation to their business websites and social media activities, or in a broader sense through his other great passion of delivering presentation and leadership skills.

Todd Halfpenny has been working as a Software Designer for mobile telecoms operators for over 10 years and has an innate love for anything, and everything, related to mobile technology.

For the past four years, he has also worked on many WordPress projects, both personal and client based. Through these projects, he has developed tons of WordPress plugins, and among those listed in the WordPress.org plugin repository are the highly popular Widgets on Pages and Responsive TwentyTen.

His journey with mobile technology has also led him to develop a few Android applications including Asssist, which was the first Dribbble client for the platform.

Todd can be found online at http://toddhalfpenny.com and on Twitter at @toddhalfpenny.