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

• Learn how to build mobile and responsive websites using WordPress
• Get to grips with the best mobile plugins and understand how they interact with your site
• Learn how to make your own WordPress theme or site responsive, including layout, images, navigation and more

In Detail

The chances are that more of your WordPress website visitors are using mobiles, or more clients are demanding responsive or mobile sites. If you can use WordPress to build mobile-friendly sites you can win more business from clients and more traffic for your site.

"WordPress Mobile Web Development Beginner's Guide" will benefit you whether you’ve dabbled in WordPress or worked with it for years. It will help you identify which approach to mobile is most appropriate for your site (responsive, mobile, or web app) and learn how to make each one work, demonstrating a variety of techniques from the simple to the more complex, working through clear practical examples and applying these to your own website.

Start by quickly making a WordPress site mobile-friendly, using off the shelf plugins and responsive themes, choosing the best ones for you and customising them. This leads into responsive theme design, with advice on layout, images and navigation. Finally, learn how to build a web app in WordPress, making use of plugins, APIs and custom code.

If you need to hit the ground running with mobile WordPress development, then this book is for you. With practical examples and exercises from the beginning, it will help you build your first mobile WordPress site without having to learn aspects of WordPress or mobile development that aren't relevant. It will also help you understand which approaches work and why, so you can apply this knowledge to future projects.

What you will learn from this book

• Identify which approach to mobile development will work best for your site, by understanding the needs of the site and its visitors
• Find out which plugins and pre-built responsive themes are best for quickly making a WordPress site work on mobiles, and customize them for your site
• Install responsive themes and customise them to fit with your existing design or brand
• Make your existing WordPress theme or site responsive, adjusting the layout and interface to look great on mobiles, including phones and tablets
• Take responsive design further, with responsive text and navigation, for better ergonomics and user experience
• Learn how to make images and other media responsive and reduce their file size on mobile devices using inbuilt WordPress functionality
• Create an app-like site, with a design and interface resembling a native app
• Access the functionality of the user's phone from the browser to create a WordPress web app, and learn which features you’ll be able to use in future

Approach

Beginner's Guide

Who this book is written for

If you have dabbled in WordPress or been working with it for years, and want to build mobile or responsive themes or sites, this book is for you. Even if you can't write a line of code, the first few chapters will help you create a simple mobile site. But to get the most from the book, you will need a good understanding of HTML, CSS and WordPress itself.

This book is for owners of self-hosted WordPress sites, not sites hosted at wordpress.com.

讓您的WordPress網站適應行動裝置，並掌握網頁設計中最熱門的兩個趨勢-行動和WordPress。

- 學習如何使用WordPress建立行動和響應式網站
- 瞭解最佳的行動裝置外掛程式，並了解它們如何與您的網站互動
- 學習如何使您自己的WordPress主題或網站具有響應式設計，包括版面、圖片、導覽等

詳細內容：
您的WordPress網站訪客中，使用行動裝置的可能性更高，或者更多客戶要求響應式或行動網站。如果您能使用WordPress建立行動友好的網站，您就能贏得更多客戶的業務，並為您的網站帶來更多流量。

《WordPress行動網頁開發初學者指南》將使您受益，無論您是剛接觸WordPress還是多年來一直在使用它。它將幫助您確定哪種行動方法最適合您的網站（響應式、行動或網頁應用程式），並學習如何使每種方法都能運作，通過清晰的實際示例進行多種技術的演示，並將其應用於您自己的網站。

首先，通過使用現成的外掛程式和響應式主題，快速使WordPress網站適應行動裝置，選擇最適合您的主題並進行自定義。然後，學習響應式主題設計，包括版面、圖片和導覽的建議。最後，學習如何在WordPress中建立網頁應用程式，利用外掛程式、API和自定義代碼。

如果您需要快速開始進行行動WordPress開發，那麼這本書就是為您而寫的。從一開始就提供實際示例和練習，它將幫助您建立第一個行動WordPress網站，而無需學習與WordPress或行動開發無關的方面。它還將幫助您了解哪些方法有效以及原因，以便將這些知識應用於未來的項目。

從本書中您將學到：
- 通過瞭解網站和訪客的需求，確定哪種行動開發方法最適合您的網站
- 找出最適合快速使WordPress網站適應行動裝置的外掛程式和預先建立的響應式主題，並對其進行自定義
- 安裝響應式主題並對其進行自定義，以符合您現有的設計或品牌形象
- 使您現有的WordPress主題或網站具有響應式設計，調整版面和介面，使其在行動裝置上看起來很棒，包括手機和平板電腦
- 進一步進行響應式設計，包括響應式文本和導覽，以獲得更好的人體工學和用戶體驗
- 學習如何使用內建的WordPress功能，使圖片和其他媒體具有響應式設計，並在行動裝置上減小文件大小
- 創建類似應用程式的網站，具有類似本機應用程式的設計和介面
- 從瀏覽器中訪問用戶手機的功能，創建WordPress網頁應用程式，並了解未來可以使用的功能

這是一本初學者指南。

這本書適合已經接觸過WordPress或多年來一直在使用它的人，並希望建立行動或響應式主題或網站。即使您不會寫一行代碼，前幾章也將幫助您創建一個簡單的行動網站。但是，為了從本書中獲得最大效益，您需要對HTML、CSS和WordPress本身有良好的理解。

本書適用於自託管的WordPress網站，而不是在wordpress.com上託管的網站。