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Of late commercial frameworks have started appearing everywhere. This post will try and make sense of it all, comparing Frugal, Headway, Builder, Genesis and Elemental. That's all the commercial frameworks I could think of bar Thesis, who didn't reply to me emails. This is an unbiased, unaffiliated look at what your options are if you want something to build more WordPress sites off.

After the astounding success of the Why WordPress series which ran last year, this week I'll be asking five WordPress Wizards about what's next for themes, WordPress and frameworks in what is a slightly more focused discussion than last time!

After the astounding success of the Why WordPress series which ran last year, this week I'll be asking five WordPress Wizards about what's next for themes, WordPress and frameworks in what is a slightly more focused discussion than last time! Today, Cory Miller from iThemes is in the hot seat.

After the astounding success of the Why WordPress series which ran last year, this week I’ll be asking five WordPress Wizards about what’s next for themes, WordPress and frameworks in slightly more focused discussion than last time! The series continues today with Alex Cragg, co-founder of WPShift which enticingly has "made a theme that lets you build your own layout just by dragging and dropping."

After the astounding success of the Why WordPress series which ran last year, this week I’ll be asking five WordPress Wizards about what’s next for themes, WordPress and frameworks in what is a slightly more focused discussion than last time! The series continues today with Nathan Rice, developer at StudioPress and largely responsible for the recent release of Genesis.

After the astounding success of the Why WordPress series which ran last year, this week I'll be asking five WordPress Wizards about what's next for themes, WordPress and frameworks in what is a slightly more focused discussion than last time!

After months and months of working on it, WPShift has now launched! I'm really delighted to be able to say that :) Find all the low down about the hottest WordPress theme in town!

For the last couple of months I've been mentioning a fair bit on Twitter that I'm launching a premium WordPress themes company. This post explains what it is, what's great about it and when it's coming.

As someone who quite likes being controversial from time to time, I thought I'd vent some steam on people releasing "modded" premium themes. This post attempts to take an unbiased view, considering both sides and producing a coherent and acceptable conclusion backed by evidence. Attempts, anyway...

In what'll be my final post here of the year, today we're going to have a look back at what has been an eventful first year for WPShout. This is not a list post. More of a reflection.

The final of our community series, slightly later than planned asks twenty one of the WordPress community what they think the future of WordPress should be. Again, in no particular order, here are the responses.

The third of four instalments of the "Why WordPress" series (parts ONE and TWO) asks the same groups of twenty one what problems they see facing the WordPress community at the moment. Like last time, some really interesting answers from the WordPress users, developers and designers.

The new design for WPShout launches in emphatic style with a look behind and ahead at what's to come over the next couple of weeks.

Take a look at the new WPShout design and see some results of the feedback.