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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 text size on phones in landscape mode


You'll remember that when we looked at the site on a phone in landscape mode, the text looked a little large. Let's correct that now. Perform the following steps for doing so:

  1. 1. First, we will find the media query for this screen size as follows:

    /*smartphones in landscape mode*/
    @media screen and (max-width: 480px) {
    }
    

    There will be code between those curly brackets, which I haven't shown here because we don't need to work with it for this task.

  2. 2. Above the rest of the code for this media query, we will add a line of code to adjust the font size for the whole site. We will write it above, because it sets styling for an element very high up in the document tree, and any text sizing we want to set for other elements will have to come after it if it's going to work.

    /*adjust font sizing*/
    body {
    font-size: 12px;
    }
    
  3. 3. This sets the base size at 12 pixels to make all the text in the site a bit smaller. Let's see what effect it...