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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

Testing our fluid layout on a smartphone


The most common smartphones have a width of 480px in landscape orientation and 320px in portrait. Let's see how our site looks on phones, now that we've set our media query for screens smaller than 768px, which will—don't forget—affect this screen size, too.

First, we will see our site in landscape mode, as shown in the following screenshot:

Next, we will see how it looks in portrait mode, as shown in the following screenshot:

Ouch. That's not very good, is it?

There are a number of problems as follows:

  • The logo is tiny

  • The header is dominated by the social media icons

  • The call to action button has way too much padding and its text wraps onto a second line in landscape and a third in portrait

  • The menu is big and a bit messy looking

  • The sidebar is ridiculously narrow, particularly in portrait mode

  • The footer text wraps onto two lines and could be tidied up

We'll write the CSS to fix those problems later, but for now let's just set the media queries.