Chapter 7. Techniques and Tutorials

Introduction

So you’ve just spent an entire book looking at responsive design and WordPress, including themes, plugins, different design patterns, and more; you can leverage WordPress’ inherent functionality to make your responsive themes more efficient. Now it’s time to look at some tutorials that will give you step-by-step instructions on how to create some frequently used features.

Moving forward, it’s important to remember that while you can use any of this code in a theme or a plugin, you should consider how what you’re building is being used. For example, since a portfolio is inherently content, you shouldn’t make it part of the theme, because when you change the theme you lose the content. At the beginning ...

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