Ric Shreves is a web application development consultant and tech author. Based in Bali, Ric is a partner at water&stone, a digital agency specializing in open source CMS web projects. Ric has been building CMS websites for over 10 years, and during that time has been involved in projects for a number of global brands, including BASF, BearingPoint, Colgate-Palmolive, Tesco Lotus, FPDSavills CBRichard Ellis, Mercy Corps and many others. Ric has published a number of books on open source in general and on open source content management systems in particular. The WordPress 3 Cookbook is his fourth book for Packt.