Karol Król - WordPress 3.7 Complete: Third Edition

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 the 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, and then launched a web design business together with a close friend. Later on, he decided to shift his interest towards popularizing WordPress as the perfect solution for all web-based projects and devoted his time to growing his writing career. To this day, his articles have been featured on websites, such as About.com, Lifehack.org, ProBlogger.net, Freelance Switch, Quick Sprout, and Six Revisions. Currently, his main two projects are providing Online Business Advice for Normal People through his main website (http://newinternetorder.com/) and taking active part in the Writers in Charge project (http://www.writersincharge.com/), and teaching other writers how to take charge of their writing career.

Karol spends most of his spare time making music, training Capoeira, cooking, and drinking wine.

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 supported me along the way. Last but not least, I'd like to thank ThemeFuse (http://themefuse.com/), one of the leading WordPress theme stores online, for providing guidance and delivering a custom theme design that I was able to use in this book.

Aaron Hodge Silver has been designing and developing new websites from scratch since 1999, just before his graduation from Columbia University. Early in his career, he worked for several web companies and startups, including DoubleClick and About.com. Since 2004, he has been self-employed through his company Springthistle Design and has worked with a staggering variety of companies, non-profits, and individuals to realize their website dreams. In his professional work, Aaron's focus is always on usability, efficiency, flexibility, clean design, and client happiness. WordPress is the best solution for many of Springthistle's clients, though Aaron also develops custom web applications using PHP and MySQL. Aaron was the author of the two previous editions of this book! You can find more about Aaron's professional work at http://springthistle.com.

In his free time, Aaron enjoys developing recipes in the kitchen, being active outdoors, and spending quality time with his family (both human and non human members).

About the Reviewers

Matthew Cohen is a Chief Product Officer at WooThemes. He is also a WordPress and web developer, musician, and blogger. He is a lover of punk rock, innovation, business and 80s/90s cartoons.

Olivier Pons is a developer who's been building websites since 1997. He's a teacher at Ingsup (cole suprieure d'ingnierie informatique) at the University of Sciences (IUT) of Aix-en-Provence/France and cole d'Ingnieurs des Mines de Gardanne, where he teaches MVC fundamentals, Symfony, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery/jQuery Mobile, Linux basics, and advanced VIM techniques. He has already done some technical reviews for Packt Publishing books, namely Ext JS 4 First Look by Loaine Groner and jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials Second Edition by Raymond Camden and Andy Matthews among others. 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://www.livrepizzas.fr, http://www.papdevis.fr, and http://olivierpons.fr his own web development blog. He works as a consultant, teacher, project manager, and sometimes a developer.

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Preface

WordPress 3.7 Complete Third Edition will take you through the complete process of building a fully functional WordPress site from scratch. The journey goes all the way from teaching you how to install WordPress, to the most advanced topics such as creating your own themes, writing plugins, and even building non-blog websites. The best part is that you can do all this without losing your shirt along the way. Moreover, once you get some practice, you will be able to launch new WordPress sites within minutes (not a metaphor, by the way; this is as true as it gets).