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 you may have seen in last week’s competition post, I recently created an email newsletter for WPShout. You may have also noticed I ended up using MailChimp instead of a built-into-WordPress solution. This post shows the how I did it.
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Last year to celebrate WPShout’s first birthday I ran a competition on the site where I offered readers the chance to win one of nineteen premium themes. Today is also a cause for celebration as WPShout has surpassed two thousand RSS subscribers! This actually happened a couple of months ago, just I don’t obsess over stats so hadn’t seen 
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Despite Facebook being the most successful of all of the social media sites, I’ve never made WPShout a presence on the site or attempted to integrate Facebook onto WPShout in any way. I tend to view Facebook as more personal and other sites such as Twitter more appropriate for both marketing the site and interacting with the people who read it.
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I recently worked on a typical small e-Commerce site: about twenty products, a couple of buying options, a couple of pages for about and whatnot and a little blog added on the end. Naturally, I looked to WordPress to handle everything — the products, the blog and the pages. With custom post types, this wasn’t a problem; a custom post type for the products and then an individual entry for each of the products, with standard posts being used for the blog and custom page templates for the pages. We’re not going to look at those, though, instead we’re going to look at how the e-Commerce part of the site worked.
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Hello! If it isn’t my favourite internet! So it’s been a while and I’m sure some of you have only started reading WPShout in that time, in which case, hello! I’m Alex! I run this place.
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- WordPress Theme Design Basics
- Create An Advanced Options Page in WordPress
- Premium Frameworks Reviewed
- Creating A Tumblog With WordPress
- 10 Practical WordPress Security Tips
- A to Z of WordPress .htaccess Hacks
- WordPress Theme Design Basics
- 10 WordPress Plugins That Every Blog Needs
- 10 Awesome Things To Do With WordPress' Custom Fields
- How To Stop An Eithical Hacker Breaking Into Your WordPress Site
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