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WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap

By : Eugene Liang
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WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap

By: Eugene Liang

Overview of this book

With the explosive popularity of mobile apps and its much anticipated continued growth for the foreseeable future, developers will want to get their hands dirty and build some cool mobile apps. But we know that building mobile apps is not easy: we need to handle cross-platform issues, mobile devices of different screen sizes, not to mention traditional issues such as providing a content management system of the content served in the application. Enter "WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap". We leverage on some of the most popular open source projects: Wordpress, jQuery, jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap and discover how they can be pieced together to build a fully functional cross platform mobile application. "WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap" teaches you how to build mobile application with minimal effort and coding by leveraging on some of the most popular open source projects such as Wordpress, jQuery, jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap. This book looks at some of the most popular open source projects: Wordpress, jQuery, jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap and breaks down the nitty gritty details on how to leverage on these projects to build a fully functional cross-platform mobile application with minimal coding and effort. You will start off by quickly going through the capabilities of Wordpress. Then you will prepare some groundwork on how to make use of plugins and the GeoPlaces theme to provide geographic and API capabilities to WordPress. Next you will learn how to create an external HTML/CSS/JavaScript that consumes and posts data to your Wordpress blog. More importantly, you will see how to convert this external app into a PhoneGap in as little as five minutes. Finally, you will learn how to apply all these techniques and skills to a Wordpress app based on the Twenty-Ten theme and create a cross-platform mobile app using PhoneGap. By the end of "Wordpress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap" you will learn how to piece Wordpress, jQuery, jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap together into a fully functional mobile app.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Introducing the GeoPlaces theme


The GeoPlaces theme (http://templatic.com/app-themes/geo-places-city-directory-WordPress-theme/), by Templatic (http://templatic.com), is a cool theme that allows you to create and manage a city directory website. For a live demo of the site, visit http://templatic.com/demos/?theme=geoplaces4.

An overview of the GeoPlaces theme

The GeoPlaces theme is created as an out-of-the-box solution for city directory websites. It allows end users to submit places and events to your site. Best of all, you can even monetize the site by charging a listing fee. Some of the powerful features include the following:

  • Widgetized homepage

  • Menu widgets

  • Featured events and listings

  • Custom fields

  • Payment options

  • Price packages page view

Let's now move on to the setting up of the theme.

Setting up the GeoPlaces theme

We'll start with the installation of the GeoPlaces theme.

Installation

The steps for installing the GeoPlaces theme are as follows:

  1. You will first have to purchase and download...