Introducing WPShift
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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.
(read more)On Modded Premium Themes
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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...
(read more)Most Commented Posts The Right Way in WordPress
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Just a very quick tip but nonetheless an important one. Many of you will be using any number of plugins or the database query that's been doing the rounds recently to display your most popular posts. That code/plugin is no longer needed as WordPress' query_posts can now display your most commented posts.
(read more)Best of WPShout 2009
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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.
(read more)WordPress Books Reviewed
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As someone who is quite well versed in the reviewing world, I thought it'd be nice to do some reviews of WordPress books. In this post I'll look at Digging into WordPress and How To Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer.
(read more)The Future of WordPress?
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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.
(read more)Any Problems Facing WordPress?
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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.
(read more)WPShout 3.0 Has Arrived!
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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.
(read more)Teasing A New Design
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Take a look at the new WPShout design and see some results of the feedback.
(read more)10 More Tips To Improve Your WordPress Theme
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10 More Ways to Improve Your WordPress Theme in this post - add a theme options page, multiple sidebars, custom write fields and awesome SEO!
(read more)The Death of the Boring Blog Post – Easily Add Columns to Any WordPress Post
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Easily put your post's content into columns using just the WordPress text editor and a CSS grid.
(read more)Looking for Some Feedback (With A Competition, Too!)
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Looking for some feedback on WPShout.
(read more)Move Your wp-content Area
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A really easy way to change the directory where your images are uploaded to in WordPress.
(read more)Awesome WordPress SEO With Custom Fields
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SEO is something I've discussed before here on WPShout, but here we're going to dive into a slightly more specific area: post titles, RSS reader titles and title tags and using custom fields to create a specific title for each of them.
(read more)Warning: YARPP and the_excerpt_rss Don’t Mix
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A warning to those using the_excerpt_rss and the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) for their meta description.
(read more)Single Post Templates Made Easy
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Create really awesome custom post templates for WordPress with a simple (theme integrate-able) plugin.
(read more)WordPress as a Review Site and Podcasting Site: Advanced Uses of WordPress
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Create a review and podcasting site with WordPress.
(read more)WordPress as a Social Network and Twitter clone: Advanced Uses of WordPress
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Using WordPress as a social network and Twitter clone has just got a heck of a lot easier! Day three of Advanced Uses of WordPress looks at just that.
(read more)WordPress as a Tumblelog, CMS: Advanced Uses of WordPress
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Day one of "Advanced Uses of WordPress" looks at using WordPress to create a Tumblelog using custom fields.
(read more)Advanced Uses of WordPress
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WordPress as a CMS, social network, Twitter site, eCommerce and gallery? WPShout runs through how to achieve all of those with "Advanced Uses of WordPress" week.
(read more)Write Faster With WordPress’ Shortcodes
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WordPress has many somewhat hidden features and these is shortcodes. In this post we'll learn exactly what shortcodes are, when to use them, why they're so brilliant and how to use them.
(read more)9 Ways to Create a Crash Proof WordPress Site
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Your site never need go down again with nine ways to create a crash proof and speedy WordPress site or blog.
(read more)WordPress’ Bloginfo Explained
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Learn how to use the powerful template tag bloginfo effectively in WordPress with this detailed explanation.
(read more)How To: Display Quotes From A Random Post in WordPress
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Using custom fields, custom write panels and a custom loop pulling a random post with a custom field, in this tutorial we'll display a random quote in the sidebar of our WordPress blog.
(read more)Create An Advanced Theme Options Page in WordPress: Day 4
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Day 4 of "Create an Awesome Theme Options Page in WordPress" finishes off the theme options page.
(read more)Create An Advanced Theme Options Page in WordPress: Day 3
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Day three of "Create an advanced theme options page in WordPress" styles the options page.
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