Mobile Friendly WordPress Theme

There are millions of sites operating on WordPress which is an extremely flexible, popular, easy to use and open-source CMS platform. It is the first preference for blogging. Small scale industries also like WordPress to create commercial websites. Today, the browsing experience has changed a lot. It has moved from laptops to tablets or smart phones. Therefore, the time is demanding to make your WordPress theme flexible enough for mobile browsing.

Create a Theme Concept
A theme concept should be prepared at various screen sizes. It focuses on smart phones, tablets and laptops. Determine what you want to achieve with your theme and which group you are targeting. Considering these things you can create a list of useful elements for your layout. Sketch carefully the layout options including header and sidebar or different widgets. It is important to sketch how these layouts will adapt to different screen sizes.

Responsive Theme or Mobile Plugin
Which is the best way to go with? A mobile them plugin will be a temporary solution to make your existed website friendly to small screen resolutions such as WPtouch plugin.

A responsive theme is a long term solution. It helps maintain unique branding across all devices and maintain the website well. Choose popular responsive frameworks such as Bootstrap, BootstrapWP, WordPress Foundation, Bones, 320 and Up.

Work on images that you would provide in your site. Use a CSS  or icon fonts for image setup. It is suggested to use a few images to make a lightweight theme for your responsive site that browses quickly even in slow network.

Check before Launch
 Before you launch your website, it is must to check its theme is appearing well on different screen resolutions. It is done through many screen-resolution testing tools like Screenfly.

It is difficult to tell the user’s behaviour of browsing. So, it is good to test the website them on actual devices. Check how the site response to touchscreens and high density screens.

If you find hard to design a responsive theme for your WordPress site, consult an expert. Talk to WordPress designing company on the matter. Such companies are expert in dealing with such issues. They help to design a responsive theme for your site. Ask for packages for designing responsive WordPress site.  Choose a well suitable package from the web development company Kolkata and go ahead. Remember, every 2 out of 5 browsers are mobile browsers. If your site is not responsive, you can miss a number of visitors.