Karol Król - WordPress 4.x Complete

Karol Krl is a WordPress developer, PHP programming specialist, professional blogger, and writer. He has been building expertise in WordPress ever since his early years at Silesian University of Technology, Poland, where he graduated with a master's degree in computer science. Early in his career, he worked as a freelance website developer for several years. Later, he decided to shift his focus toward popularizing WordPress as the perfect solution for all web-based projects and devoted his time to developing his writing career. His articles have been featured on websites such as NewInternetOrder.com, About.com, MarketingProfs.com, SmashingMagazine.com, ProBlogger.net, Six Revisions, Web Design Ledger, and many more. Currently, Karol's two main projects are providing business advice to normal people online through his website at http://newinternetorder.com/ (normal people who don't have hours upon hours of time to spend sitting on their computer, watching yet another business training and trying to figure things out in the middle of the night), and offering his writing services through his main hub at http://karol.cc/.

I'd like to thank everyone at Packt Publishing for working with me and making this book a reality. Also, many thanks to everyone who has supported me along the way. Last but not least, I'd like to thank the WordPress team for building and constantly improving an incredible tool. If it wasn't for you guys, I'd be out of work.

Matt Cohen is the Chief Product Officer at WooThemes, market leaders in premium WordPress products and the creators of WooCommerce. He spends his day managing his engineering team and a growing team of product managers.

With a deep love of web development, Matt began tinkering with HTML4 in high school (before CSS existed) and developed a strong bond with early web development languages and principles. Then, he worked as a senior developer at a handful of agencies before joining WooThemes as a senior web developer in late 2010. A love for product creation, customer experience, and well-architected products led Matt to move into the chief product officer's role, where he now oversees the design and creation of all products developed within WooThemes.

Matt loves WordPress deeply and is an engineer at his core, with a strong interest in creating amazing customer experiences. In his free time, he enjoys nature, punk rock, and forgotten 90s television.

Cyril Pierron is a tech-savvy and life-curious engineer and web addict. He started programming at the age of 8 and has been working in the field of telecommunications for 12 years. He has been a solution architect in the e-commerce sector since 2011. He is married and the father of a lovely girl.

As an e-commerce expert, Cyril has noticed an increasing requirement to blend both the online store and marketing content into one consistent unified experience for consumers.

I would like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to work on this book as a reviewer, after my first experience with jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques Beginner's Guide , Dan Wellman , Packt Publishing , a few years ago. I would also like to thank Karol Krl, who did a wonderful job writing it, and my wife, who showed quite a lot of patience and support as I kept working on this book after hours.

Content management systems (CMS) are the key to brands sharing information and reaching out to their communities and fans. WordPress is a reference, one of the best known systems in this market, and this book will definitely give you, the reader, a complete view of its capabilities and usages.

Olivier Pons is a senior developer who's been building websites since 1997. He's a teacher at IngeSup (cole Suprieure d'Ingnierie Informatique, http://www.ingesup.com/ and http://www.y-nov.com); the University of Sciences (IUT) in Aix-en-Provence, France; ISEN (Institut Suprieur de l'lectronique et du Numrique); and cole d'Ingnieurs des Mines de Gardanne, where he teaches state-of-the-art web techniques: MVC fundamentals, Symfony, WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery / jQuery Mobile, Node.js, AngularJS, Apache, NoSQL, Linux basics, and advanced VIM techniques. He has already done some technical reviews, including Ext JS 4 First Look , jQuery Hotshot , jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials , WordPress Complete , and jQuery 2.0 for Designers Beginner's Guide , all by Packt Publishing. In 2011, he left a full-time job as a Delphi and PHP developer to concentrate on his own company, HQF Development (http://hqf.fr). He currently runs a number of websites, including http://krystallopolis.fr, http://artsgaleries.com, http://www.battlesoop.fr, http://www.livrepizzas.fr, http://www.papdevis.fr, and http://olivierpons.fr, which is his own web development blog. He works as a consultant, teacher, project manager, and sometimes helps big companies as a senior and highly skilled developer.

Ardian Yuli Setyanto , S.Kom, has been programming since his high school days. He featured in the national selection for Tim Olimpiade Komputer Indonesia (TOKI, which means Indonesia Computer Olympiad Team) twice, in 2002 and 2003. This persuaded him to study computer science at Gadjah Mada University (UGM). He graduated in 2009, the first among his other friends, with a score of 3.5 out of 4. He also used WordPress for his essay during his bachelor's degree. Ardian developed his own plugin and combined it with a GSM phone to read and send SMS (text messages), instead of the usual e-mail service used to manage WordPress comments, which he discussed in his essay.