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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—switching our User Agent


Ok, so let's fool desktop Safari into behaving like Safari on the iPhone. Perform the following steps for doing so:

  1. 1. Let's start by opening the Safari browser for Mac. We will change the User Agent using an option on the Develop menu.

    Note

    If you don't already have the Safari Develop menu activated, you can do so via Safari's Preferences menu. For instructions, see http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/appleapplications/Conceptual/Safari_Developer_Guide/2SafariDeveloperTools/SafariDeveloperTools.html.

  2. 2. We will click on Develop and then on User Agent to see a list of possible User Agents, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. We will select the User Agent we want to make use of—in this case, Safari iOS 4.3.3—iPhone.

  4. 4. If we resize the browser window, the site will appear as it would on an iPhone.

What just happened?

We told the desktop Safari browser to use the mobile Safari User Agent, so that the site would display as it would...

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