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 mentioned before, I’ve been having great fun with the new Nometet.com design. It’s now sporting a feature that allows the author to set a custom background for the post just by uploading an image. This image doesn’t even need to be the correct size; that’s all done on the fly. Uploading isn’t hard either; I’ve implemented an uploader that sits inside a meta box so the hardest bit is choosing the image! In this post we’ll have a look at how it’s done.
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“Art direction”, custom post designs, whatever you want to call them have taken off in a big way recently. First it was Jason Santa Maria amongst others, then Smashing Magazine picked up on it and as a trend it exploded. For good reason too; they’re awesome and great fun to do. In this post we’ll see how art direction and WordPress can be combined to create something awesome.
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Your iPhone optimised WordPress theme doesn’t have to be the single column look we often see; there’s no reason at all why you can’t just slightly simplify your theme and still give iPhone users a decent experience when visiting your site. That’s what we’ll be doing in today’s post, using just CSS.
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Nothing Much is a free WordPress theme especially made for WPShout readers! It’s a super minimalist, single column, simple WordPress theme that’s the first to join WPShout’s new Theme House. Image-less and only two files small, Nothing Much loads in a flash and would look great in use on a personal blog.
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Ever since I and Alex Cragg launched our WordPress theme store earlier this year, it’s been chugging along nicely. We still only offer the one theme, ShiftNews, but we’ve been quietly updating it. Just last Friday we pushed out an update that adds in support for a couple of the new 3.0 functions. Yesterday we also introduced a rather interesting new pricing plan which makes ShiftNews available for a fantastically low $29.95!
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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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