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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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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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 the mobble plugin


The plugin is installed and activated just like any other. Perform the following steps:

  1. 1. On the Install Plugins screen, search for mobble. This gives a list of just one plugin—the one with that name, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. Install and activate the plugin.

What just happened?

We installed and activated the mobble plugin. We now have access to a number of conditional statements to detect and work with different devices. The simplest, and the one we will be using here, is is_mobile().

Note

For a full list of the conditional functions available with the mobble plugin and how it works, go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mobble/.

Now that we have the plugin, we need to add some PHP code to our theme files to display the right image at the right place.

The code we need to edit is within the Loop. Depending on how our theme is set up, this will either be in a theme file of its own, called loop.php, or within another theme file (or more...

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