Yannick Lefebvre - WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook

Yannick Lefebvre

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

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First published: July 2012

Second edition: July 2017

Production reference: 1140717

ISBN 978-1-78829-118-7

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Yannick Lefebvre is a plugin developer who has published eight projects to the official WordPress repository. His first creation, Link Library, has been used on thousands of sites around the world. With a background in Computer Science and working for CM Labs Simulations a company providing software tools and simulators for vehicle and heavy equipment simulation he started writing plugins for his own WordPress site in 2004 and quickly started sharing his creations with the community. He is actively involved in the Montreal WordPress community, has presented multiple times at WordCamp Montreal, and offers WordPress plugin development services. You can find out more about him and his plugins on his website, Yannick's Corner.

Cyril Pierron is a tech-savvy, life-curious engineer. He started programming at the age of 8. He worked in the telecommunications industry for 13 years, leading network value added service application development. Since 2011 he has been working as an ecommerce solution architect, supporting customers and partners, building transactional sites on Salesforce Commerce Cloud platform. He is married and the father of a lovely 7-year old girl.

As an ecommerce expert, Cyril has witnessed over the past few years the convergence of content sites and online stores into one unified experience for the consumer. He has integrated with various content management platforms in the context of his projects.

Ardian Yuli Setyanto, S.Kom, has played with programming since in high school. He joined national selection for Tim Olimpiade Komputer Indonesia (TOKI, Indonesia Computer Olympiad Team) in 2002 and 2003, which convinced him to study computer science at Gadjah Mada University (UGM), and he graduated in 2009 firstly among his other friends with a score 3.5/4.

He also used WordPress as his essay topic for bachelor degree, he developed his own plugin and combined it with a GSM phone to read and send SMS, instead of the usual email, to manage WordPress comments in his essay. After graduating from university, he start working as freelancer using WordPress and Prestashop. These CMS are widely used in his home country, Indonesia.

Now he is working as a backend developer using Symfony2, Rails, and Sinatra. You can reach him on Twitter: @ardianys.

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