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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.

Yay! 🎉 You made it to the end of the article!
Alex Denning
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WPHub
August 15, 2012 4:49 pm

The new website layout looks absolutely amazing! The only suggestion I have is adding social share buttons to each post to make it easier for your readers to share your content.

marco
August 3, 2012 10:07 am

hi great job … but i have a problem with the slide on the home page (overlapping) … something wrong with the grid on mediaqueries i think…
I’m on latest ff / chromium with ubuntu 12.04

anyway great site … thank u

Steven Gliebe
July 19, 2012 5:27 pm

This is some good news. I like the wide format and big font. Have success!

Jaydeep Patel
July 18, 2012 4:15 pm

New Look is too Good….

John
July 17, 2012 11:50 pm

Alex, love the improvements. If you had to guess, how long did the new design take you?

FxB
July 17, 2012 10:49 pm

Great new looking site. Nice to see you back ready to shout@wp. On little thing on my phone the date in the archives are overlapping the post title. All the best for your project

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