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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—writing our first media query


To add custom CSS for a device of a particular width, we use max-width, so the code for iPads would be as follows:

@ media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
}

What this code does is to identify that the site is being visited on a device with a maximum screen width of 768px. The CSS goes between the braces.

So, let's see how it works by adding some styling for iPads. Perform the following steps:

  1. 1. At the bottom of the stylesheet, we will add a section for mobile styling. The Carborelli's site has numbered sections in its stylesheet, so at the top of our new section we will add the following line of code:

    /* 6. Media queries */
    
  2. 2. Beneath the preceding line of code, we will add the following code snippet:

    /*iPads in portrait mode*/
    @media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
    }
    

    You'll notice the comments that are always useful to help us keep track of what device we're targeting.

  3. 3. Next, inside the curly brackets, we will add styling to change the size of...

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