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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—installing and configuring the Ari theme


Let’s try it out on the Carborelli’s site. To install and configure the Ari theme, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Download Ari from http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ari and activate it on the Manage Themes options page. Let’s have a look at what it does to our site without any tweaks, on each of the desktop, iPad, and mobile. The following screenshot shows the Ari theme on the desktop:

    The following screenshot shows how it looks on the iPad:

    Finally, our site with the Ari theme on a mobile looks like the following screenshot:

    As with Scherzo, there are some issues with wrapped text in the mobile version, but the changing column layouts are a nice touch across the different devices.

  2. 2. The next step is to make some design and branding alterations, which we can do via the Theme Options screen. Change the color of the header text, the page background, and the body text if you want. You can also upload an image to use as the logo—this...

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