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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

Time for action—adjusting the header layout for phones in portrait mode


Let's fix those problems. Perform the following steps for doing so:

  1. 1. We already have a media query for phones in portrait mode as follows:

    /*smartphones in portrait mode*/
    @media screen and (max-width: 320px) {
    }
    

    Let's start by making the address a bit bigger:

    #header-right address h2 {
    font-size: 18px;
    }
    
  2. 2. We will then move on to adding some extra margins around the icons to reduce the risk of tapping the wrong one as follows:

    #header-right #socialmedia img {
    height: 30px;
    margin: 10px 3%;
    }
    
  3. 3. And next, we will make the call to action button larger by simply making the text bigger, as well as tweaking the margins to reduce the risk of clicking in the wrong place as follows:

    #header-right .CTA {
    font-size: 16px;
    margin: 10px 3% 10px 0;
    }
    
  4. 4. We'll then move on to the navigation, which you'll remember is simply too small for reading or tapping on. Let's add some code to make the text bigger as follows:

    /*increase size of...