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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


Having built our mobile site and web app, we've now identified a variety of methods we can use to test how they work on mobile devices. Specifically, we learned how to test a responsive design by resizing the browser window using an extension for Chrome, how to switch the User Agent in Safari so that we can test device-specific content, and how to use one of the many websites for testing responsive layouts. We also learned how to install and use Opera Mobile Emulator, how to access Opera Mini Simulator, and how to install and use a mobile emulator for Google Chrome.

We also looked at ways to update and edit the site from a mobile device, including installing and setting up the WordPress app and using the WordPress app to edit and add content, including images, media, links, and more.

Now that you know how to test and manage your site, you're ready to go. In this book, we started by taking an existing desktop site, and then we used plugins and off-the-shelf themes to make it mobile...