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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

Need for adjusting the layout


In the previous chapter we made our site fluid so that it alters according to the width of the browser window. But the basic layout remains the same, with a header at the top, content and the sidebar next to each other, and the footer at the bottom.

Let's review how the site is now looking on mobile devices. First, on iPads in portrait mode, as shown in the following screenshot:

The layout is looking pretty good on an iPad, but I think we can improve on it as follows:

  • The social media icons and call to action button in the header are large and make the header quite deep. Some layout and sizing alterations could tidy things up a bit.

  • The layout of the sidebar and content might work better if the sidebar is below the content, making the rows of text in the content wider and easier to read.

These changes won't have a big effect on user experience, but they will make the site appear neater and more polished, and the repositioning of the sidebar should improve readability...