How to Create a Mobile Version of Your WordPress Site
Jun23

How to Create a Mobile Version of Your WordPress Site

23SHARESFacebookTwitter Contrary to popular belief, there is no point in producing a separate version of your website – from scratch – just for mobile, because you can simply incorporate a responsive design instead. What is a responsive design exactly? It’s a web design technique that scales the site, layout and content appropriately to match the screen resolution of the device users are browsing on. This means that it doesn’t matter whether visitors are looking at your site with a desktop, mobile or tablet – the site will automatically scale to fit. For example, you can see that this blog has responsive design enabled because, if you adjust your browser window to a smaller size, everything in the blog resizes to fit the new window. Note the lack of a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the window – that means that everything on the blog has been reformatted to fit the window perfectly. So, how can you create a responsive, mobile WordPress site? For the most part, any web designer can implement a responsive design but it does take a bit of extra time and effort. That’s one reason why WordPress is so fantastic. All of that extra work can be eliminated – and additional functionality can be unlocked – by installing a responsive theme or plugin. If you’re looking to improve your WordPress-powered mobile website then plugins offer the easiest way to do that. Sorting through the massive catalog of plugins for WordPress can be daunting, to say the least. Not to mention the fact that there are usually several variants of the same plugin type, just adding to the general confusion. To make things easier, I’ve compiled a list of plugins that will help you achieve that excellent mobile site you’ve been wanting. 1. Duda Mobile Website Builder With Duda Mobile Website Builder, you can have a mobile version of your site up and running in no time. It works like a visual editor, allowing you to edit the layout of your mobile site with drag-and-drop mechanics. It’s easy to use, and it does a pretty good job of converting your regular site into a mobile one for you automatically. That being said, you can further customize aspects of the site so that they are to your liking. Of course, the plugin also makes the following features available for your mobile site: Click-to-Call Mobile Maps Business Hours Yelp Reviews Image Slider Photo Gallery Embed Videos Facebook Like Button Social Icons It’s worth noting that you don’t have to incorporate or use all of the features listed, but they are available if you decide you need them....

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