McCollin R. - WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints

WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints Second Edition

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WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints Second Edition

WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints Second Edition

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First published: August 2010

Second edition: September 2015

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Credits

Author

Rachel McCollin

Reviewers

Felix Arntz

David Kryzaniak

Mario Peshev

Dan Purdy

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Acquisition Editors

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Technical Editor

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Cover Work

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About the Author

Rachel McCollin is an experienced WordPress developer and writer with a reputation for making difficult technical subjects easy to understand. She's been building WordPress sites for clients since 2010, and this is her fourth book on the technology. She's a regular writer for some of the most influential web design and development websites and her writing has helped thousands of people learn how to get started with WordPress and gain more from it.

About the Reviewers

Felix Arntz is a web developer who specializes in WordPress development with a focus on complex web applications, helpful plugins, and backend. In 2012, he started his business, Leaves Webdesign, to provide WordPress solutions for various clients around the world, especially in the U.S. and Germany. He also develops plugins for the WordPress plugin repository.

Besides his work, he is studying applied computer science at the Ruhr Universitt Bochum in Germany and looking forward to receiving his degree in early 2016. When he is not coding, he pursues his passion for making music and playing the piano. He also loves going out and enjoying the beautiful city he lives in, playing soccer, and going to the gym. He is also a movie geek and drinks a lot of Mountain Dew.

Having never worked on any book before, he thoroughly enjoyed reviewing this book and is looking forward to help improving books on the same technology in future.

David Kryzaniak is a web application developer at Fox World Travel in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He holds a BS in information science from the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. While he is primarily a PHP developer, he tends to do a lot of frontend coding (CSS, JavaScript, and responsive web design) too. He spends a lot of his free time working on both freelance and open source WordPress projects. You can find out more about him at https://davekz.com.

Mario Peshev is the founder of and a WordPress architect at DevriX, a distributed WordPress development agency. He has been building software solutions with PHP, Java, and Python for more than 10 years now.

In addition to his technical background, he is an international speaker and a seasoned trainer with over 10,000 hours on stage. He has conducted training courses on web and database development and security in companies and organizations such as CERN, Saudi Aramco, VMware, and Software AG.

He is currently leading a team of WordPress engineers that builds high-end solutions using the technology. With several WordPress-driven SaaS solutions behind it, the team specializes in complex multisite projects and business-specific solutions based on the popular platform. As a WordPress contributor and active community member, he is often involved with international WordPress or web development events.

Dan Purdy started his career as a technical engineer for a top London recording studio. It was during this time that he started working with WordPress as a blogging tool for his personal projects.

Currently working for a digital innovation agency in Shoreditch, London, as a senior frontend developer, he continues to build sites with WordPress while working on a variety of projectsfrom product prototypes and e-commerce sites to enterprise-level web applications.

He was also the technical reviewer for Raspberry Pi Gaming , Second Edition , Packt Publishing .

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Preface

WordPress is now by far the most popular content management system (CMS) with over a quarter of the total websites on the Web running on it. Originally, it was developed as a blogging platform, but it can do much more than that.

If you're like the millions of people who want to use WordPress to sell products, reach an audience, showcase your work, or communicate with a team, among other things, this book is for you. In each chapter, I've used WordPress and shown you how to set up a site that does exactly that.

You don't need to write code to follow the majority of the chapters; all you need is some familiarity with WordPress and adding content to it and the enthusiasm to create a great website.

So what are you waiting for? Here you go for your fantastic website!

What this book covers

, Migrating a Static Site to WordPress , explains how to move an existing site to WordPress and import content from your old site to your new WordPress site.

, Creating a Social Media Site , shows how to use BuddyPress to create a networking site for a community of users.

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, Creating an E-commerce Site , explains how to use the free WooCommerce plugin to create an e-commerce site and add real and virtual products to it for sale.