Book Image

WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide

By : RACHEL MCCOLLIN
Book Image

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—adjusting the header layout for phones in landscape mode


The following screenshot is showing smartphones in landscape mode, which has a screen width of 480px. Let's see how our full front page looks at this width now that we've set our media query for screens smaller than 768px, which will—don't forget—affect this screen size, too.

It's still not looking good—the header takes up a lot of room and the call to action button wraps onto three lines of text. Let's make some improvements. Perform the following steps for doing so:

  1. 1. In the previous chapter we added a media query for smartphones in landscape mode, but didn't add anything to it. Let's start by finding that:

    /*smartphones in landscape mode*/
    @media screen and (max-width: 480px) {
    }
    
  2. 2. First let's focus on the header. We will add the following code snippet within the curly brackets of the media query:

    /*tidy up the header*/
    #site-title img {
    width: 75%;
    }
    #header-right address h2 {
    font-size: 16px;
    }
    #header-right #socialmedia...