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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


In this chapter we’ve started to work with the responsive design, by choosing and configuring a few responsive themes and testing them on our site.

We learned the difference between mobile and responsive themes, and the options available to us while choosing how to develop our mobile site. We also learned what to consider when choosing our approach and our theme, how to install and configure some free responsive themes, and how to combine an off-the-shelf responsive theme with a theme switcher to retain our existing desktop theme but improve the user experience on mobile devices.

But, this is just scratching the surface of what we can do with responsive themes. By building responsiveness into our own theme, we can retain all of the branding, design, and content we want for the Carborelli’s site, while ensuring that the site looks great on desktops, mobiles, and tablets. We can take it further by ensuring that mobile users don’t have to download large image files, and harness APIs and...