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.

As I’m sure most of you do too, I’m now managing a good handful of sites which are running WordPress. I’ve now got a solid routine going when it comes to getting WordPress up and running and in this post, I thought I’d share it with you.
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A beginner’s guide and introduction to WordPress SEO, which plugins to use and how to use them.
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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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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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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.
