6 Steps To Making Your WordPress Site Mobile Friendly

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6 Steps To Making Your WordPress Site
Mobile-Friendly
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6 Steps To Making Your WordPress Site
Mobile-Friendly 1 Choose Your Hosting Service
Carefully

• Any Mobile-Friendly changes you make to your
  site could be for naught if your hosting company
  provides slow and unreliable service. Pennies
  saved in choosing the cheapest hosting services
  available may turn out to be quite expensive in
  the long run.

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2Choose a Mobile-Friendly WordPress Theme

• The WordPress Theme you choose serves as both the
  foundation and framework of your website. What
  type of Theme is Mobile-Friendly? A fast theme.
  Loading speed is a key factor in making a site
  Mobile-Friendly, so a fast-loading, Responsive
  Theme is ideal.
• Look for Themes that have been tagged as having a
  Responsive Layout.

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3 Customize Your Content

• Structuring your content to be Mobile-Friendly is
  critical. What defines Mobile-Friendliness when
  it comes to content? In general, your content
  should be easy to view on small screens, and
  should be Finger-Friendly easy to navigate by
  touch.
• Here are a Few Specific Tips for Making Content
  Mobile-Friendly
• -- Larger font sizes are better than
  smaller.
• -- Lots of whitespace.

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• -- Buttons should be large in size, and
  isolated enough to easily tap with a fingertip
  without inadvertently hitting something else.
• -- Short headlines.
• -- Make content scannable break text into
  lots of subsections with subtitles.
• -- Position the most important info on a web
  page close to the top.

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4 Manage Plugins

• One of the great advantages WordPress offers is
  the wealth of Plugins that are available. But
  Plugins are so easy to add that website owners
  often end up with quite a collection. The result
  is that sites are often burdened with a number of
  Plugins that arent really needed or useful.
• A proliferation of Plugins can contribute to
  performance issues that can make your site less
  mobile-friendly. So stay on top of the Plugins
  youve added to your site. Prune away those that
  arent really contributing to your site. And make
  certain that the Plugins you use are kept
  up-to-date with the latest versions.

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5 Optimize Images

• Images are an important component of your
  websites content. But they can significantly
  slow the load time of your site, making it less
  Mobile-Friendly. You can help to counteract that
  problem by using Plugins that work to optimize
  the loading of images.
• Some Plugins worth considering for this purpose
  include
• -- Image Pro
• -- CW Image Optimizer

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• -- Imsanity
• -- Hammy
• -- EWWW Image Optimizer
• -- PB Responsive Images

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6 Test

• Once youve optimized your site to be
  mobile-friendly, test it. See how it performs on
  your own mobile devices. Does it load fast? Is it
  easy to navigate via touch screen? Does the text
  fit the screen?
• The greater the variety of mobile devices you can
  use in testing your site, the better. Ask friends
  and family to also check out your site on their
  devices. And be sure to find out whether your
  site rates a mobile-friendly thumbs-up from
  Google. You can easily use Googles testing
  tool to evaluate your site for free.

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