WPShout.com

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.

WordPress SEO Tips

Posted on 31. Jan, 2012 by Alex Denning.

A beginner’s guide and introduction to WordPress SEO, which plugins to use and how to use them.

Affiliate Marketing For WordPress

Posted on 20. Dec, 2011 by Alex Denning.

In recent weeks I’ve been trying to diversify WPShout’s income — you’ll notice that Shout now sports some links in the sidebar pointing to WooThemes and WPWebHost, both using affiliate links to do so. There are a couple of ways I’m now handling my affiliate marketing through my WordPress Dashboard and this post will run down the different ways I’m now doing this.

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The WordPress Hosting Review: Results

Posted on 05. Dec, 2011 by Alex Denning.

Last March I asked for people to review their hosts so I could find out which hosts were the best for hosting WordPress powered sites. A fantastic 252 people responded and I’ve now put together all of the answers into the promised comprehensive list.

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Why WordPress?

Posted on 02. Dec, 2011 by Alex Denning.

Nearly two years ago now, I asked a number of members of the WordPress community why they used WordPress. Over those last two years WordPress has changed vastly and thus it’s time to update that post with the reasons I still use WordPress in 2011.

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Single Page Portfolios With WordPress

Posted on 15. Nov, 2011 by Alex Denning.

I’ll admit, I wasn’t quite sure how I was going to do this. I was tasked with making a single page design easily editable. Obviously, I looked to WordPress so that I had a nice backend. Question was how to do it? Posts were out of the questionso I looked to pages. But you can’t display multiple pages on the same page, can you?