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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 went into more depth and learned how to use a combination of PHP and CSS to develop a web app. We covered some approaches to web app development and their pros and cons, plugins available for web app development and what they offer, how to use a responsive design to turn the existing site into a web app, and how to develop a separate mobile theme to deliver our web app.

Some specific techniques we learned, or built on, include creating a new theme by editing an existing one, using a theme switcher to display a different theme on mobile devices, and using conditional tags to send different content to different devices or to hide content on the front page. They also include using absolute positioning to move images around the page and to hide, or display, our site description, and setting up and displaying custom fields to display content in our web app.

We've advanced a long way since first looking at mobile plugins in Chapter 1, Using Plugins to Make Your Site Mobile...