Thord Daniel Hedengren - Smashing WordPress Themes: Making WordPress Beautiful

Smashing WordPress Themes

Making Wordpress Beautiful

Thord Daniel Hedengren

This edition first published 2011

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February 2011

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Smashing WordPress Themes is dedicated to the WordPress community.

Were all playing an important part by making free speech easier online. The more people can express their thoughts, dreams, and ideas, the better for everyone. Open source in general, and WordPress in particular, play an important role in the free speech movement.

Keep up the great work, dear community.

Thord Daniel Hedengren

About the Author

Thord Daniel Hedengren is addicted to words, which led him to launch his first online newsletter in 1996. It all went downhill from there, with dozens of Web sites, and a career as an editor and freelancer in both Sweden and abroad.

His international career began with a blog post, which led to a book deal for Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, with Wiley Publishing, Inc., and an even stronger voice in the WordPress community. Youre now holding Thords second book.

When not obsessed with words, Thord and his friends build cool Web sites using WordPress at his Web design firm, Odd Alice. He also edits magazines and writes freelance articles for both print and Web publications (in Swedish and English). You can follow everything Thord on http://tdh.me.

Thord lives in the land of kings, Sweden.