Lister - BuddyPress Theme Development

Tammie Lister is a designer and theme developer. She's passionate about community design and mixing in psychology with design and development to create these communities. She is lucky enough to create a wide range of communities with her clients. Her background is both in design and development. She has worked as a freelancer for over 10 years from her own company called logicalbinary.com.

She has spoken about BuddyPress and communities at WordCamps, BuddyCamps, and other conferences. Her contributions to BuddyPress include being part of the community theme for BuddyPress, UI, and a new template pack. She also has a sketchbook where she explores and experiments with BuddyPress at buddydesignlabs.com.

Special thanks goes to the editorial team that made this book happen. A large thank you goes out to Alison Barrett, Brian Messenlehner, and Paul Gibbs, who gave their time as technical reviewers.

This book is dedicated to the core team behind BuddyPress for all their work. A huge thanks also goes out to everyone that contributed in any way in the project. BuddyPress is made up of the people involved so thank you. I'd also like to thank my editors and reviewers for helping make this book the best it could be. Last but not least a thank you goes to my husband Simon for understanding my passion for writing this book and open source projects.

Special thanks go to the editorial team that made this book happen. A large thank you goes out to Alison Barrett, Brian Messenlehner, and Paul Gibbs, who gave their time as technical reviewers.

This book is dedicated to the core team behind BuddyPress for all your work. A huge thanks also goes out to everyone that contributes in any way in the project. BuddyPress is made up of the people involved so thank you. Id also like to thank my editors and reviewers for helping to make this book the best it could be. Last but not the least, a thank you goes to my husband Simon for understanding my passion for writing this book and open source projects.

Alison Barrett has been using WordPress for most of her career as a web developer, building customized sites for clients and creating open-source plugins. She is now a Code Wrangler at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. Alison graduated from the Art Institutes International Minnesota with a degree in Interactive Media Design.

Paul Gibbs lives in the south of the UK, not far from Brighton. Hes proud to be British and was brought up on a diet of digestive biscuits, crumpets, and tea. Paul likes spending his spare time building WordPress plugins, and is a Lead Developer of BuddyPress. Away from the screen, he enjoys reading, photography, and travelling.

Paul works for Automattic on the WordPress.com VIP team.

Thanks to all contributors to BuddyPress, of which without their efforts, this book wouldnt exist; you are all amazing people! Special praise goes to Boone B. Gorges, Raymond Hoh, John James Jacoby, Mercime, and Tammie Lister.

To my parents and family; thanks for all of your support and guidance on this adventure! I Couldnt have done this without you.

Brian Messenlehner , a former software developer for the United States Marine Corps, has an extensive background in building custom web applications from the ground up with mostly Microsoft and Oracle based technologies. In 2001, Brian co-founded WebDevStudios.com, a freelance web development shop, with another US Marine, Brad Williams.

In early 2008, Brian and Brad took on WebDevStudios full time. They shifted focus to open source web platforms built with PHP and MySQL such as WordPress, Joomla and Drupal.

By 2013, WebDevStudios.com has become a fully distributed development and design shop with three partners, Brian, Brad, and Lisa Sabin-Wilson. WDS has 13 employees and works exclusively with WordPress building custom plugins, themes, multisite networks, BuddyPress social networks, web applications, and hybrid mobile applications. Brian and the team at WDS have more than a few very customized BuddyPress builds, themes and plugins under their belt and have been working with BuddyPress since Version 1.0.

Brian is the co-author of "Building Web Apps with WordPress" along with Jason Coleman of StrangerStudios.com. His book is about using WordPress as an Application Framework.

I would like to thank Tammie Lister for giving me the opportunity to review this book and Rahul Nair for reaching out to me about reviewing "BuddyPress Theme Development" and Michelle Quadros for staying on top of things for Packt Publishing. I am thankful of my wife and best friend, Robin Messenlehner and my children Dalya, Brian Jr. and Nina Messenlehner for supporting me and my efforts to review "BuddyPress Theme Development". I would also like to acknowledge my business partners and friends Brad Williams, Lisa Sabin-Wilson, and the entire WebDevStudios.com team for building the best WordPress development & design shop on earth!