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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—changing text settings


Before we start making changes to the text size in our media queries, first we're going to change the unit we use for text, from pixels to ems. This makes it easier for us to edit text sizes later on and is also a lot better for accessibility. See the Why use ems section ahead for more on why it's a good practice to use ems for text. To change text settings, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. We will open up our stylesheet and find the text sizes that are already set for the desktop site. In the Carborelli's stylesheet all of the text styling is in the same place:

    /* Main global 'theme', fonts and typographic styles */
    body {
    font-size: 14px;
    line-height: 1.4em;
    }
    /* Headings */
    h1 {
    font-size: 22px;
    }
    h2 {
    font-size: 20px;
    }
    h3 {
    font-size: 18px;
    }
    h4 {
    font-size: 16px;
    font-style: italic;
    }
    h5{
    font-size: 14px;
    font-style: bold italic;
    }
    h6 {
    font-size: 14px;
    font-style: italic;
    }
    
  2. 2. It's important to set the <body> font size in pixels for consistency...