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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


In this chapter, we not only made some significant changes to our media queries and to the layout of the Carborelli's site, but we also learned about some concepts such as pseudo-classes and fat footers, and how to make them adapt to different screen widths. In particular, we added CSS to each of our media queries. We changed the layout of the header for all screen widths to make best use of the screen space and improve the user experience. We changed the layout of the content and sidebar, bringing the sidebar below the content for tablets in portrait mode and screen widths below that. We examined different approaches to the layout of widget areas within a sidebar or a footer, including identifying how many widgets to place side by side and what code to write to achieve that layout. We also learned a few methods to get the edges of the left-hand and right-hand side widgets aligned with the rest of the content. We also altered the layout of the Carborelli's footer on mobiles so that...