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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

Mobile-specific content—some considerations


When thinking about what content we might want to send to mobile devices as distinct from desktops, we need to tread carefully. First, we need to think about why we're doing this, then about what the differences need to be, and finally about how we're going to achieve this.

Why send different content to different devices?

You've probably come across websites that have a very different, completely stripped-down mobile version of the site. Sometimes this is a separate site, and sometimes the main site with lots of content missing. How does this make you feel as a user? The experience of using such a site could be positive in that the layout is optimized for mobile, but there will also be some frustration. What about the user wanting to access parts of the site hidden to mobile users, who only has a mobile to browse on? How is he/she going to feel?

I'm a strong believer that a mobile site should never omit content that's on the main site. If something...