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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

Summary


In this chapter we learned some methods for delivering different content to different devices, and identified when we might or might not want to do this. It's important not to block areas of the site from mobile users, and make sure they can access all of the important content. We learned how to use CSS to hide some elements from mobile visitors (and the downsides of doing this, particularly for large files such as images) and how to use PHP conditional tags with the mobble plugin to send different content to different devices. We saw when we might want to change the navigation for mobile devices, and what mobile and desktop users' priorities might be. We learned how to set up alternative mobile menus and use conditional tags to display them on mobile devices, and how to style those menus to fit on small screens. We also saw a way of replacing our navigation menu with a select box for enhanced user experience and to display large or multilevel menus.

If there's one lesson we take...