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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—configuring the Twenty Eleven theme


To configure the Twenty Eleven theme, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Activate the theme. At the moment, we have a bespoke theme activated, so we need to activate the Twenty Eleven theme. Let’s do that by clicking on Themes in the Appearance menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

    So how does the Carborelli’s home page look now? First, we will see how it looks on a desktop, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Next, we will see it on mobile devices with screens narrower than 480px, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Hmm. It’s not quite right, but it doesn’t look bad. Can you spot the main changes Twenty Eleven has made to the site, compared to the original theme? They are as follows:

    • The widgets are missing. The map has disappeared because it was in a widget. There is a search box but it’s in the header.

    • A comments box has been added. We don’t want one of those on our home page.

    • A wide image has been added at the top, which isn’t relevant...