Introducing WPShout V4.0

I’m absolutely delighted to announce today the launch of the brand new look WPShout V4. As I announced a fortnight ago, WPShout is coming back to its regular schedule and I’ve got some really awesome stuff lined up for the next couple of weeks, including a new eBook, screencasts and some in depth tutorials.

The first of the awesome stuff is this brand new makeover for WPShout (hop out of your RSS reader). The site is now much cleaner, much bigger, much more responsive (with six different sizes) and just a much nicer place to be writing at and reading at.

Walking through the new design

We’ll start off with the homepage — as good a place as any to start. The main feature on the homepage is the massive slider at the top of the screen (right now it’s having some slight issues with any sizes other than the largest, but I’m working on it, don’t fret!).

One of my main goals with the new design was to make the site just generally lower maintenance, which means no more using clusmy custom fields to set post images; instead I’ve got a simple if statement on the the homepage which detects if the <!– more –> tag is set and if so, it displays that — otherwise, on old posts especially, the_excerpt displays as a fallback.