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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


We've finally had a chance to delve into our theme's code and start making it responsive. So, what did we learn about the responsive design? We learned that the responsive design requires three things—a fluid layout, media queries, and a meta tag telling mobile devices to work with their actual screen width and not the default of 1024px.

Fluid layouts are built by replacing pixel-based widths with percentage widths. These then make the site resize itself when the browser window is resized.

Media queries can be set for a variety of screen widths to target different devices in different orientations, using @media screen and (max-width=[device width]).

The CSS cascade means that styles we set for our main site will also apply to other screen widths unless we specifically set styles within a media query. It also means that styling set for a media query will apply to devices targeted by media queries further down in the stylesheet. When editing a stylesheet for an existing site, this means...