About The Authors

Benjamin Intal

Benjamin is a designer and WordPress developer from the Philippines who loves creating WordPress themes for ThemeForest¹ and tinkering around with jQuery plugins in GitHub². He is the creator of Titan Framework³, and runs a small start up named Gambit⁴ which specializes in WordPress development. Twitter: @bfintal⁵.

Daniel Kanchev

Daniel is a senior web apps engineer at SiteGround⁶ web hosting company. His years of experience in cleaning hacked websites and patching vulnerabilities that affect different applications like WordPress, Joomla, etc. have helped him work effectively on many of the security relates projects of the company. When he’s not busy in making the web a safer place, you can see him practicing extreme and not so secure sports while traveling the world. Twitter: @dkanchev⁷.

David Smith

Dave Smith is a front end developer based near the city of Bath, UK. When he’s not working on the web he can be found playing the trumpet in everything from Big Band jazz groups to Symphony orchestras. You can catch up with Dave on Twitter as @get_dave⁸.

Hristo Pandjarov

Hristo is a big WordPress enthusiast and has been fortunate to have his passion for all things WordPress and his job overlap at SiteGround web hosting company. He has done it all: supported WordPress clients, built websites, played around with WordPress themes, wrote tutorials, built some plugins and helped for the various in-house performance boost solutions to make WordPress websites faster and more secure. Twitter: @pandjarov⁹.

Jonathan Wold

Jonathan Wold is the husband of a beautiful redhead named Joslyn and the father of a baby boy named Jaiden. He works at Sabramedia¹⁰, a web design and development company that specializes in WordPress powered media sites¹¹. He is also a core developer and evangelist for Newsroom, a newspaper paywall¹² and CMS built for the newspaper industry. Twitter: @sirjonathan¹³.

Mark Gavalda

Mark is a DevOps guy and head honcho at Kinsta WordPress Hosting¹⁴, a company focused on WP performance and scaling. In his free time he likes to play squash, ride the bike or trek in the mountains. You can also find Mark on Twitter: @MarkGavalda¹⁵.

Tom Ewer

Tom Ewer is the Chief Blogging Officer for the ManageWP blog¹⁶. ManageWP is the easiest way to access, manage, backup and update multiple WordPress websites. Twitter: @managewp¹⁷.

About Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine¹⁸ is an online magazine dedicated to Web designers and developers worldwide. Its rigorous quality control and thorough editorial work has gathered a devoted community exceeding half a million subscribers, followers and fans. Each and every published article is carefully prepared, edited, reviewed and curated according to the high quality standards set in Smashing Magazine’s own publishing policy¹⁹.

Smashing Magazine publishes articles on a daily basis with topics ranging from business, visual design, typography, front-end as well as back-end development, all the way to usability and user experience design. The magazine is — and always has been — a professional and independent online publication neither controlled nor influenced by any third parties, delivering content in the best interest of its readers. These guidelines are continually revised and updated to assure that the quality of the published content is never compromised. Since its emergence back in 2006 Smashing Magazine has proven to be a trustworthy online source.