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WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide Make your WordPress website mobile-friendly and get to grips with the two hottest trends in web design—Mobile and WordPress with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849515726
Length 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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RACHEL MCCOLLIN RACHEL MCCOLLIN
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WordPress Mobile Web Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Acknowledgement
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Using Plugins to Make Your Site Mobile-friendly 2. Using Responsive Themes FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting up Media Queries 4. Adjusting the Layout 5. Working with Text and Navigation 6. Optimizing Images and Video 7. Sending Different Content to Different Devices 8. Creating a Web App Interface 9. Adding Web App Functionality 10. Testing and Updating your Mobile Site Pop quiz—Answers

Time for action—rearranging the sidebar widgets for phones in portrait mode


Once again, let's start by seeing how this part of the site is looking on the screens of this width:

In portrait mode, having the widgets side by side simply makes them too narrow. The search box is too small to tap comfortably and the map is too small to be able to see any detail. Let's make them sit beneath each other. Perform the following steps for doing so:

  1. 1. First, we will find the media query for phones in portrait mode as follows:

    /*smartphones in portrait mode*/
    @media screen and (max-width: 320px) {
    /*make header icons and text larger*/
    #header-right address h2 {
    font-size: 18px;
    }
    #header-right #socialmedia img {
    height: 30px;
    margin: 10px 3%;
    }
    #header-right .CTA {
    font-size: 18px;
    /*padding: 1em 1em 1em 40px;*/
    margin: 10px 3% 10px 0;
    }
    /*increase size of navigation text*/
    #access {
    font-size: 17px;
    }
    #access a {
    padding: 0 7px;
    }
    }
    
  2. 2. Below this, but inside the braces of the media query, we will add the...

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