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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—configuring the Twenty Eleven theme


To configure the Twenty Eleven theme, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Activate the theme. At the moment, we have a bespoke theme activated, so we need to activate the Twenty Eleven theme. Let’s do that by clicking on Themes in the Appearance menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

    So how does the Carborelli’s home page look now? First, we will see how it looks on a desktop, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Next, we will see it on mobile devices with screens narrower than 480px, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Hmm. It’s not quite right, but it doesn’t look bad. Can you spot the main changes Twenty Eleven has made to the site, compared to the original theme? They are as follows:

    • The widgets are missing. The map has disappeared because it was in a widget. There is a search box but it’s in the header.

    • A comments box has been added. We don’t want one of those on our home page.

    • A wide image has been added at the top, which isn’t relevant...

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