As you’ll know if you’ve read my recent post, I find practical applications of economic theory quite an interesting topic.

I was doing some writing for Siobhan recently, and one of the topics I was covering was WordPress theme shops, and the economy that’s built up around them.

Ever since I started blogging, nearly four years ago now, I’ve been fascinated with tracking analytics, tweaking copy and working out how changing little things impacts the “success” of that post.

Last week I friend of mine who’s a mathematician was helping me out with a formula I was trying to create which could predict how successful a post from a brand page on Facebook was going to be.

I’ve been working on a design for my girlfriend’s blog recently.

Like nearly a hundred thousand others last week, I was very interested to see John O’Nolan’s concept of a simplified blogging platform, Ghost.

If you have absolutely anything you want people to do when visiting your website — be that subscribe, download, purchase,  whatever — you need a landing page.

At the start of the month, DIYThemes launched the latest version of their hugely successful theme framework, Thesis.

I recently added some social media sharing buttons to WPShout via a plugin, something I thought I’d never actually do.

The latest WordPress update introduced HTML editing captions, reminding us all that captions are in fact a feature in WordPress.