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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—uploading and activating our web app theme


Let’s start by uploading the theme we’ve created. To upload the theme, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Using FTP, or our preferred file transfer method, we will do the following three things:

    • Deleting the existing Carborelli's theme from the main site (we’ve made a copy if this already so won’t lose our work)

    • Uploading the backup of the Carborelli's theme we made before we started work on our web app—this will revert to being the main theme

    • Uploading our new Carborelli's mobile theme

  2. 2. We can find our themes in the wp-content/themes directory on our site. This will add the new mobile theme to the list of installed themes on the Manage Themes page, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. We won’t activate the mobile theme. Instead, we will activate the main theme and set up a mobile switcher to switch to the mobile theme when the site is viewed on a mobile device.

  4. 4. We will click on Plugins and then on Add New to install a switcher, or...