WordPress® for Dummies®, 2nd Edition

Author Acknowledgments

Many, many thanks and kudos to Matt Mullenweg, the core development team from Automattic, 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 prerelease 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!

Huge thanks to Melody Layne, Steve Hayes, Amy Fandrei, and Rebecca Senninger from Wiley Publishing 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 technical editor Paul Chaney and other editors of the project who also worked hard to make sure that I look somewhat literate here.

To any family members and friends whom I have neglected during the process of writing this book, thank you for not abandoning me!

Finally, I thank my family — my husband, Chris; my children, Ben and Melissa; and my parents, Donald and Penny Sabin — for their ...