{"id":410,"date":"2012-06-20T09:40:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T08:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/?p=410"},"modified":"2012-06-20T09:40:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T08:40:39","slug":"mobilising-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/2012\/06\/20\/mobilising-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobilising WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a fairly quick session at the end of day two, but some useful ideas on getting wordpress to work on mobile nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Approaches<\/strong><br \/>\nSome approaches at emerged on how to deal with mobile&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. do nothing &#8211; surprisingly common even on some very big sites. But surely not good enough in the future.<br \/>\n2. use plugins<br \/>\n3. mobile themes<br \/>\n4. change to a responsive theme<br \/>\n5. responsify your theme. Not too hard but probably better to leave it up to others who have more time to get this right for you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mobile plugins<\/strong><br \/>\n1. wptouch (pro) &#8211; running 31% of the top mobile-powered wordpress blogs. The lite version is what we&#8217;re using on blogs.kent. Might be worth looking at the paid-for pro version?<br \/>\n2. mobile pack plugin<br \/>\n3. mobble &#8211; provides simple functions to do stuff for different devices<br \/>\n4. onswipe swiping plugin for tablets<\/p>\n<p><strong>Choosing responsive themes<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are plenty but an example given was yoko.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Responsive web design<\/strong><br \/>\n1. fluid widths<br \/>\n2. flexible media<br \/>\n3. css3 media queries<br \/>\n4. mobify<br \/>\n5. 3.4 has potential for responsive dashboard apps and theming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a fairly quick session at the end of day two, but some useful ideas on getting wordpress to work on mobile nonetheless. Approaches &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/2012\/06\/20\/mobilising-wordpress\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16747],"tags":[16749,843,1031],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}