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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 FREE CHAPTER 2. Using Responsive Themes 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—uploading and activating our web app theme


Let’s start by uploading the theme we’ve created. To upload the theme, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Using FTP, or our preferred file transfer method, we will do the following three things:

    • Deleting the existing Carborelli's theme from the main site (we’ve made a copy if this already so won’t lose our work)

    • Uploading the backup of the Carborelli's theme we made before we started work on our web app—this will revert to being the main theme

    • Uploading our new Carborelli's mobile theme

  2. 2. We can find our themes in the wp-content/themes directory on our site. This will add the new mobile theme to the list of installed themes on the Manage Themes page, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. We won’t activate the mobile theme. Instead, we will activate the main theme and set up a mobile switcher to switch to the mobile theme when the site is viewed on a mobile device.

  4. 4. We will click on Plugins and then on Add New to install a switcher, or...

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