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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—removing a widget using PHP


Let's look at how we can use PHP to hide a widget.

First, let's find the code for the three images. This is contained within a widget area, which we can see by accessing the Widgets screen, as shown in the following screenshot:

So, what we need to do is remove that widget area from mobile devices. We can do this in one of the following two ways:

  • By adding a conditional function around the code for the widget area in the header.php file

  • By adding a conditional function to the widget itself with the addition of another plugin, called Widget Logic

We're going to use the second method as it means we don't remove the entire widget area, just this widget. Perform the following steps:

  1. 1. First, let's install and activate the Widget Logic plugin. We can find this at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic. On the Plugins screen, we will click on Add New, then search for the Widget Logic plugin and click on Install. Once it's installed, we will click...