WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide

Make your WordPress website mobile-friendly and get to grips with the two hottest trends in web designóMobile and WordPress with this book and ebook.

Key Features

• Learn how to build mobile and responsive websites using WordPress
• Get to grips with the best mobile plugins and understand how they interact with your site
• Learn how to make your own WordPress theme or site responsive, including layout, images, navigation and more

Book Description

What you will learn

• Identify which approach to mobile development will work best for your site, by understanding the needs of the site and its visitors
• Find out which plugins and pre-built responsive themes are best for quickly making a WordPress site work on mobiles, and customize them for your site
• Install responsive themes and customise them to fit with your existing design or brand
• Make your existing WordPress theme or site responsive, adjusting the layout and interface to look great on mobiles, including phones and tablets
• Take responsive design further, with responsive text and navigation, for better ergonomics and user experience
• Learn how to make images and other media responsive and reduce their file size on mobile devices using inbuilt WordPress functionality
• Create an app-like site, with a design and interface resembling a native app
• Access the functionality of the user s phone from the browser to create a WordPress web app, and learn which features you ll be able to use in future

Who this book is for

If you have dabbled in WordPress or been working with it for years, and want to build mobile or responsive themes or sites, this book is for you. Even if you can't write a line of code, the first few chapters will help you create a simple mobile site. But to get the most from the book, you will need a good understanding of HTML, CSS and WordPress itself. This book is for owners of self-hosted WordPress sites, not sites hosted at wordpress.com.