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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—hiding home page content


Let’s add our conditional tags to hide the content we don’t want to be sent to mobile devices. We can hide the content that we don’t need by performing the following steps:

  1. 1. Firstly, let’s start with the header, and the header.php file. We need to hide the call to action button, which is displayed with the following code:

    <div class=”CTA”>
    <img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’)?>/images/sundae-small.png” /><a href="#"”>Order ice cream online</a>
    </div>
    
  2. 2. We will need to place a conditional tag around this so that it’s not displayed on mobile devices. The final code is as follows:

    <?php if ( !is_mobile() ) { ?>
    <div class=”CTA”>
    <img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’)?>/images/sundae-small.png” /><a src=””>Order ice cream online</a>
    </div>
    <?php ; } else {
    ;
    } ?>
    
  3. 3. So that’s how the header is done. We will click on Update File to save the changes...