Build a Responsive WordPress Theme With ZURBs Foundation 5 Framework

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Build a Responsive WordPress Theme with ZURBs Foundation 5 Framework.

Before we can code responsively,

we must understand the fundamentals.

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What the heck is responsive web design?

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A website or app that responds to the device that accesses it and delivers the

appropriate output for it.

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No pinch and zoom!

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One Site to Rule

Them ALL!

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Why build responsively?

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“Day by day, the number of devices, platforms, and browsers that need to work with your site grows. Responsive web design represents a fundamental shift in how we’ll build websites for the decade to come.”

- Jeffrey VeenJeffrey Veen is the author of "The Art and Science of Web Design"

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Some basic stats ...because I’m a marketing guy :)

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1 in every 5 people in the world own a smartphone, and

1 in every 17 own a tablet

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28% of Internet usage comes from a

mobile phone

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20% of Google searches are being

performed on a mobile device

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61% of people have a better opinion of brands when they

offer a good mobile experience

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28.85% of all emails are opened on mobile phones, and 10.16%

are opened on tablets.

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Over $300 billion mobile transactions were made in 2013

This number is expected to grow by a 100% for 2014

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We must build responsively,

the web depends on it!

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The basics of responsive web design

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Before you wireframe, design, or code ...

Think mobile first!

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consider ...

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here are a few media queries we target ...

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! ! /* iphone 3-4 (320 x 480) */! ! @media only screen and (min-device-width:320px) and (max-device-width:480px) and (orientation:portrait) {! ! }! ! @media only screen and (min-device-width:320px) and (max-device-width:480px) and (orientation:landscape) {! ! }! ! /* iphone 5 (320 x 568) */! ! @media only screen and (min-device-width:320px) and (max-device-width:568px) and (orientation:portrait) {! ! }!!! ! @media only screen and (min-device-width:320px) and (max-device-width:568px) and (orientation:landscape) {! ! }! ! /* ipad (768 x 1024) */! ! @media only screen and (min-device-width:768px) and (max-device-width:1024px) and (orientation:portrait) {! ! } */

Use a responsive framework

We use Foundation 5 by ZURB

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Why we chose Foundation★ Designed for Mobile First!

★ Small, medium, and large 12-column grid

★ Rapid prototyping

★ Mobile visibility elements

★ Mobile navigation - toggle or off-canvas

★ Font icon library

★ Powerful jQuery and Zepto libraries

★ Foundation is developed in Sass

★ Most importantly an existing WP theme

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It’s all about the grids!

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What you need to consider in the design phase

Image sizing

Stacking & Re-ordering of columns

Mobile Navigation

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Design for mobile navigation

Toggle menu Off-canvas menuvs.

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Responsive Navigation: Optimizing for Touch Across Devices

Adapting

Common Patterns

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Now that we covered the basics,

let’s look at the code ...

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But, you can download everything in the framework in simple, vanilla CSS and JS

http://foundation.zurb.com/develop/download.html

We do it in Sass

http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/sass.html

What you need to get started★ Git

★ Ruby 1.9+

★ NodeJS

★ Bower

★ Compass

It’s easier than it looks

Step by step instructions

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!

Get Reverie by ThemeFortress

You could build a WP Foundation theme from scratch but ...

Easy to hack

Most stable Foundation WP theme

Child Starter Theme

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Of course there are other options

★ FoundationPress - http://foundationpress.olefredrik.com/

★ WP-Foundation - http://320press.com/wp-foundation/

★ JointsWP - http://jointswp.com/

★ Reactor - http://awtheme.com/

★ ZurbPress - http://zurbpress.wpprofs.com/

to name a few ...

Starting a new project is as simple as

foundation new project_name

or get the reverie-child themehttps://github.com/milohuang/reverie-child

Child theme architecture★ CSS directory - compiled SCSS files

★ SCSS directory

★ config.rb - required for compass to compile project

★ style.css - to register child theme in WordPress

the rest is up to you

Getting setup

/*Theme Name: Theme NameDescription: Child theme for the ReverieAuthor: Brendan & Brendan Inc.Template: reverie-master*/

/* This is the CSS file loaded by WordPress in backend, * it will not be loaded in the frontend. * Go to the css/ folder and find style.css, * this is the CSS file loaded by WordPress in frontend. * Using Sass/Scss? Find the style.scss under scss/ folder. * http://themefortress.com/reverie */

style.css

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Getting setup

//// FOUNDATION SETTINGS//

// This is the default html and body font-size for the base rem value.// $rem-base: 16px;

// Allows the use of rem-calc() or lower-bound() in your settings@import "foundation/functions";

// Grid

// $include-html-grid-classes: $include-html-classes;

$row-width: rem-calc(1140);$column-gutter: rem-calc(30);

_settings.scss

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Load functions

Customize Foundation

first few lines ...

Getting setup - optional

// FONT-STACK //

$main-font: 'OpenSans';

// LINK COLORS //

$normal : #282828;$hover : #111111;$active : #cccccc;$visited: #aaaaaa;$focus: #222222;

architecture.scss

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Set global variables Custom mixins

// FONT SMOOTHING MIXIN //@mixin font-smoothing($value: on) {! @if $value == on {! ! -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;! ! -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;! }! @else {! ! -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;! ! -moz-osx-font-smoothing: auto;! }}

.menu { @include font-smoothing(on);}

Then we include it like this

Foundation 5 Markup

<?php get_header(); ?><!-- Row for main content area -->! <div class="small-12 large-8 columns" id="content" role="main">! ! <?php /* Start loop */ ?>! <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>! ! <article <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">! ! ! <header>! ! ! ! <h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>! ! ! ! <?php reverie_entry_meta(); ?>! ! ! </header>! ! ! <div class="entry-content">! ! ! ! <?php the_content(); ?>! ! ! </div>! ! </article>! <?php endwhile; // End the loop ?>! </div>! <?php get_sidebar(); ?>!<?php get_footer(); ?>

page.php Grid classes

Foundation 5 Markup

$recent_posts = new WP_Query( $args ); if ( $recent_posts ) { ?> <div class="row full-row"> <?php while ( $recent_posts->have_posts() ) : $recent_posts->the_post(); $post_id = get_the_ID(); if ( get_the_post_thumbnail( $post_id ) ) { ?> <div class="large-4 columns text-center pad-row"> <a class="fade" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"> ! <?php the_post_thumbnail( 'masonry-thumbnail' ); ?> <div class="row"> ! <div class="large-12 columns tags-box"> ! ! <p class="thumb-title"><?php the_title(); ?></p> ! ! <p class="thumb-tag"><?php the_tags(); ?></p> ! </div> </div> </a> </div>

functions.php - a snippet using masonry

Call Foundation classes from anywhere

Credit @isotrope

Some Examples

Some Examples

Some Examples

Some Examples

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