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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—adding a featured image to each page


We're going to add featured images to the pages on the Carborelli's website, because it doesn't have posts yet, but we will do that when the time comes. To add a featured image to each page, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. On the WordPress dashboard, we will open the editing screen for a page. Let's start with the Menu page, as we've already been working with the image for that one:

  2. 2. We will delete the existing image (it will remain in the gallery for that post/page, which will be helpful in a moment).

  3. 3. Then to add the featured image, we will click on Set featured image at the bottom-right corner of the screen.

  4. 4. In the Set featured image pop-up window, we will click on the Gallery tab. The image we have just deleted will be displayed. All we need to do now is click on Use as featured image and then click on the little cross at the top-right corner of the window. We mustn't insert the image into the post, or we'll end up with it displaying...