Identifying the best approach for your site
Before starting, it’s a good idea to think about your website, its content and functionality, and consider what the best approach might be.
First let’s look at the options available to us.
Options for developing a mobile site
There are five main options for developing a mobile site as follows:
Using a mobile plugin: This gives us a mobile-friendly site with the minimum of effort, but doesn’t give us much scope to incorporate our own design into the mobile site, as we saw in the previous chapter. Many mobile plugins also don’t target tablet devices.
Using an off-the-shelf responsive theme: There are a number of free responsive themes available in the WordPress plugin repository. In this chapter we’ll look at some of them and see how we can tweak them so that our mobile site is more consistent with our desktop site.
Using an off-the-shelf responsive theme for mobile devices and our existing desktop theme for desktop computers: We achieve this by using...
