About the Author

Lisa Sabin-Wilson has worked with the WordPress software since its inception in 2003 and has built her career around providing technical support, hosting, and design solutions for bloggers who use WordPress. She reaches thousands of people worldwide with her WordPress services, skills, and knowledge regarding the product. Lisa is also the author of the best-selling WordPress All-in-One For Dummies and WordPress Web Design For Dummies.

Lisa operates a few blogs online, all of which are powered by WordPress. Her personal blog (http://lisasabin-wilson.com) has been online since February of 2002. She and her partners, Brad Williams and Brian Messenlehner, provide custom development and design services at her WordPress design and development business, WebDevStudios (http://webdevstudios.com).

When she can be persuaded away from her computer, where she is usually hard at work providing design solutions for her WordPress clients, she sometimes emerges for public speaking appearances on the topics of design, blogging, and WordPress. She has appeared at conferences such as the annual South By Southwest Interactive Conference, Blog World Expo, CMSExpo, and several WordCamp events across the country.

She is a proud military wife and rescuer of black Labs. If she’s not in the kitchen, you might be able to find her in the surf or in the mountains, but two things will be certain: She’ll be eating well and listening to good music!

Lisa consults with bloggers both large and small. Bloggers come in thousands of different flavors, from business to personal, from creative to technical, and all points in between. Lisa is connected to thousands of them worldwide and appreciates the opportunity to share her knowledge with WordPress For Dummies. She hopes you find great value in it, as well!

When not designing or consulting with her clients, you can usually find her at her favorite coffee shop sipping espresso, on a mountaintop somewhere hitting the slopes with her family, or 100 feet beneath the ocean waters, scuba diving with her husband and swimming with the fishes.

You can find Lisa online at Twitter: @LisaSabinWilson.

Dedication

For my father, Donald Sabin — for him, his love, and his undying support and encouragement of my crazy choices in life. I miss you, Dad . . . rest in peace.

Author’s Acknowledgments

Many, many thanks and kudos to Matt Mullenweg, the WordPress core development team, and every single person involved in making WordPress the best blogging platform available on the Internet today. To the volunteers and testers who destroy all those pesky pre-release bugs for every new version release, the WordPress community thanks you! And to each and every WordPress plugin developer and theme designer who donates his or her time, skills, and knowledge to provide the entire WordPress community of users with invaluable tools that help us create dynamic blogs, thank you a thousand times! Every person mentioned here is an invaluable asset to the overall WordPress experience; I wish I could name you all, individually, except that there are literally thousands of you out there!

Extra special thanks to my friends and colleagues within the WordPress community who inspire and teach me every day.

Huge thanks to Steve Hayes, Kim Darosett, Virginia Sanders, and Lynn Northrup from Wiley for their support, assistance, and guidance during the course of this project. Just the mere fact they had to read every page of this book means that they deserve the Medal of Honor! Also, many thanks to the technical editor, Donna Baker, who worked hard to make sure that I look somewhat literate here.

Publisher’s Acknowledgments

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