WPShout.com | WordPress Tips, Tricks and Hacks

Welcome to WPShout, a blog about WordPress, WordPress themes and WordPress development. Below you'll find a selection of the best posts ↓

The Basics of WordPress Theme Design

Ever wanted to learn how to make your own WordPress theme? In this mega tutorial you can find out how.

10 Practical WordPress Security Tips

We all know how important security is; in this post find practical ways of stopping hackers.

Using WordPress "As A CMS"

WordPress is a CMS, and a really easy to use one at that. Find out how to utilise all of its functions and quickly build powerful sites in this post.

Submit WordPress Posts From The Frontend

Posted on 18. Aug, 2010 by Jared.

If your looking to make adding new posts without having to log into the WordPress dashboard, or maybe to allow your visitors a way to submit some kind of content of their own, then here’s a way you can create a new post form and display it on a custom page template.

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Meet Alex Denning, 16 Year Old Geek

Posted on 19. Jul, 2010 by Alex Denning.

Alex has some big news, about him, actually.

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SEO Optimization For WordPress

Posted on 15. Jul, 2010 by Alex Denning.

Today I did something I’ve never done before: I started to “SEO Optimize” my WPShout posts, seeing which posts were doing well in search results and how I can make these posts do better in search results. I also had a fiddle around with my theme to make sure it was all in fine optimised order.

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A Guide For Selling WordPress Themes

Posted on 08. Jul, 2010 by Alex Denning.

Recently there’s been a lot of (mis) information around about “how to start your own premium WordPress themes site”. They make all make it sound fairly easy: just make a design, hack it into a WordPress theme, buckle on a zillion theme options using the old Woo options panel and you have yourself a wonderful theme that’ll make you rich.

Not so, this tutorial explains some of the things to look out for when building a premium theme.