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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—setting up and using the WordPress app


Let's start by installing and setting up the app. Perform the following steps for doing so:

  1. 1. Before we install the WordPress app, we have to enable it via the WordPress admin—this means enabling the XML-RPC publishing protocol, which the app uses.

  2. 2. In the Settings menu, we will click on Writing to see the Writing Settings screen, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. We will select the Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols checkbox next to XML-RPC and click on Save Changes.

  4. 4. The next step is to download the app to our mobile device. The process for this will depend on the device. You can find information about the different apps and links to download them at http://wordpress.org/extend/mobile/.

  5. 5. Having installed the app, we need to add our site to it. We will launch the app to see the opening screen. In this case, we're working on the iPhone app, as shown in the following screenshot...