Karol Krol is a WordPress developer, PHP programming specialist, and professional blogger and writer. He has been building his 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, Six Revisions, and many more. Currently, his main two projects are providing online business advice for normal people through his main website: http://newinternetorder.com/, and taking an active part in the Writers in Charge project (http://www.writersincharge.com/), teaching other writers how to take charge of their writing careers.Karol spends most of his spare time making music, practicing Capoeira, cooking, and drinking wine. Aaron Hodge Silver has been designing and developing new websites from scratchsince 1999, just before his graduation from Columbia University. Early in his career, heworked for several web companies and startups, including DoubleClick and About.com. Since 2004, he has been self-employed through his company Springthistle Designand has worked with a staggering variety of companies, non-profi ts, and individualsto realize their website dreams. In his professional work, Aaron's focus is alwayson usability, effi ciency, fl exibility, clean design, and client happiness. WordPressis the best solution for many of Springthistle's clients, though Aaron also developscustom web applications using PHP and MySQL. Aaron was the author of the twoprevious editions of this book! You can fi nd more about Aaron's professional work athttp://springthistle.com.In his free time, Aaron enjoys developing recipes in the kitchen, being activeoutdoors, and spending quality time with his family (both human and nonhuman members).
