I’ll let you into a little secret. WordPress is a CMS. Arguably it’s a simple one, but it’s still a CMS; I’m currently writing my content and using WordPress as a system to manage my content. WordPress needn’t just manage content for my blog though. With pages and page templates you’ve got a quick and easy way of making a killer content management system.

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Just a quick note to let you know that my first article on SmashingMagazine has been published.

It’s all about custom fields. Specifically, Extending WordPress With Custom Fields, a great little topic. In the post I go through just about everything I can think of that’s awesome to do with custom fields. One of the topics, setting a different background with each post is something I’ll expand on here on Shout at a later date.

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Backing up your blog is something you’ll probably only start doing once you’ve lost everything. That’s probably not the best idea. In this post we’ll look at the various options available — the plugins, services and manual ways of backing up your blog.

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Drop caps are a really simple way of making your posts just that bit more interesting. They’re easy to do too – in this post we’ll find out how we can use a mixture of CSS3 and plugins in order to spark up posts with minimum effort.

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Well this is exciting! WPShout is now sporting look number three. The third incarnation of the site is quite a bit different from the last.

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