Responsive Design with WordPress (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

Description

This book shows readers Responsive Web Design principles, as well as how to develop responsively when using WordPress. Estimates show that WordPress powers almost 64% of the top one million websites using ContentManagement Systems, and over eight million sites total. With a greater push towards mobile and the emergence of Responsive Web Design (RWD), more and more WordPress developers are looking to create responsive themes for their websites. The book goes into detail, covering what default CSS classes WordPress uses and how to handle them when creating responsive designs. It shows how to implement the multiple images sizes WordPress uses with the JS library picturefill, and how to combine RESS with Javascript browser-width detection to get a more accurate screen width in order to call specific templates based on the device. This lightens bandwidth load for users which is especially helpful on WordPress sites. Readers will learn to plan responsive layouts for common WordPress templates such as Archives, Search, Comments and more. In addition, it shows readers how to account for common web elements that show up frequently in WordPress: forms, Google maps, tagclouds, etc. And, it directs readers how to find responsive friendly plugins.