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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—installing and configuring the Ari theme


Let’s try it out on the Carborelli’s site. To install and configure the Ari theme, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Download Ari from http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ari and activate it on the Manage Themes options page. Let’s have a look at what it does to our site without any tweaks, on each of the desktop, iPad, and mobile. The following screenshot shows the Ari theme on the desktop:

    The following screenshot shows how it looks on the iPad:

    Finally, our site with the Ari theme on a mobile looks like the following screenshot:

    As with Scherzo, there are some issues with wrapped text in the mobile version, but the changing column layouts are a nice touch across the different devices.

  2. 2. The next step is to make some design and branding alterations, which we can do via the Theme Options screen. Change the color of the header text, the page background, and the body text if you want. You can also upload an image to use as the logo—this...