Responsive design is becoming an expected standard for web developers. Your website or blog needs to look good and function on all screens and devices all the time, and just choosing a “responsive” WordPress theme isn’t always the best choice. In this session you’ll learn how easy it is to integrate foundation.css into your WordPress theme and how to get added functionality from their jQuery and zepto libraries. We’ll also dive into the css to understand how “responsivity” works.

1. WordCamp Ottawa 2014
Build a Responsive WordPress Theme with
ZURBs Foundation 5 Framework.

2. Before we can code responsively,
we must understand the fundamentals.
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3. What the heck is
responsive web design?
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4. A website or app that responds to the
device that accesses it and delivers the
appropriate output for it.
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5. No pinch and zoom!
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6. One Site
to Rule
Them ALL!
Cheesy movie reference :)
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7. Why build responsively?
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8. “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 Veen
Jeffrey Veen is the author of "The Art and Science of Web Design"
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9. Some basic stats ...
because I’m a marketing guy :)
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10. 1 in every 5 people in the
world own a smartphone, and
1 in every 17 own a tablet
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11. 28% of Internet
usage comes from a
mobile phone
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12. 20% of Google
searches are being
performed on a
mobile device
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13. 61% of people have
a better opinion of
brands when they
offer a good mobile
experience
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14. 28.85% of all emails
are opened on mobile
phones, and 10.16%
are opened on tablets.
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15. Over $300 billion
mobile transactions
were made in 2013
This number is expected to
grow by a 100% for 2014
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16. We must build responsively,
the web depends on it!
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17. The basics of responsive web design
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18. Before you wireframe, design, or code ...
Think mobile first!
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19. consider ...
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20. 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) {
! ! } */

21. Use a responsive framework
We use Foundation 5 by ZURB
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22. 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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23. It’s all about the grids!
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24. What you need to consider in the design phase
Image sizing
Stacking & Re-ordering of columns
Mobile Navigation
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25. Design for mobile navigation
Toggle menu Off-canvas menuvs.
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26. Responsive Navigation: Optimizing for
Touch Across Devices
Adapting
Common Patterns
Read: Responsive Navigation: Optimizing for Touch Across Devices by Luke WroblewskiOriginally from WordCamp Montreal 2013

27. Now that we covered the basics,
let’s look at the code ...
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28. 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

29. 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

30. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!
Get Reverie by ThemeFortress
You could build a WP Foundation theme from scratch but ...

31. Easy to hack
Most stable Foundation
WP theme
Child Starter Theme
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32. 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 ...

33. Starting a new project is as simple as
foundation new project_name
or get the reverie-child theme
https://github.com/milohuang/reverie-child

34. 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

35. Getting setup
/*
Theme Name: Theme Name
Description: Child theme for the Reverie
Author: 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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36. 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 ...

37. Getting setup - optional
// FONT-STACK //
$main-font: 'OpenSans';
// LINK COLORS //
$normal : #282828;
$hover : #111111;
$active : #cccccc;
$visited: #aaaaaa;
$focus: #222222;
architecture.scss
3
Set global variables Custom mixins
// FONT SMOOTHING MIXIN //
@mixin font-smoothing($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

38. 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

39. 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

40. Some Examples

41. Some Examples

42. Some Examples

43. Some Examples

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46. http://www.thebrendans.com/internships/
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