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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.

Art Direction For WordPress

Posted on 07. Jun, 2010 by Alex Denning.

“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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Better iPhone WordPress Themes

Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by Alex Denning.

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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Free WordPress Theme: Nothing Much

Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Alex Denning.

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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WPShift Now Available From $29.95

Posted on 27. May, 2010 by Alex Denning.

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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Featured Content For WordPress

Posted on 24. May, 2010 by Alex Denning.

It’s surprisingly easy to build a neat little featured content area in WordPress, using a custom query to grab a couple of posts from a selected category, tag or even custom field. In this post we’ll find out how to build a simple featured content area for your blog, rather like the one I recently added to WPShout.