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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—setting up our web app’s navigation


Now let’s move on to restyling those navigation links. First, we need to change their content. To do this, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Let’s start by adding a new menu for our web app. We will open the menu screen by clicking on Appearance and then Menus. We will then add a new menu by clicking on +.

  2. 2. We will name the menu as web-app and add the following links:

    • Build your sundae

    • See suggestions

    • Help

    • Main site. We can’t include this as we’re already in the main site—instead we’ll add a link to the Contact page.

  3. 3. We will add these pages and click on Save menu to save our changes.

    Note

    For more on setting up menus in WordPress, see Chapter 5, Working with Text and Navigation.

  4. 4. Now, we need to make sure our site displays this new menu on mobiles. We will open header.php and find the conditional function to display the right menu. This function will look like the following code snippet:

    <nav class=”access”>
    <?php if (is_mobile()) {...