A couple of weeks ago, I read a post on WPLift “Build A Plugin (Twitter Widget) into your WordPress Theme)“ which in turn was inspired by a post on WPCandy from a couple of months ago “How to create your own WordPress functionality…

Lots of posts on WPShout are art directed, so you may wish to view this in your browser.The functions.php file is one of the most useful files in your theme. If you’re developing lots of themes, the chances are you’ve…

Lots of posts on WPShout are art directed, so you may wish to view this in your browser.A couple of months ago I put a Genesis child theme on ThemeGarden.com. It’s called Simplicity and it’s wonderfully minimalistic, easy to read…

If you’ve ever used the Twitter API to get the number of your Twitter followers, your latest status updates, or something similar using the Twitter API you may have come across a little problem that has been bugging me for…

Lots of posts on WPShout are art directed, so you may wish to view this in your browser.On Monday I submitted a beautifully simple theme to the ThemeGarden marketplace — “Simplicity” is a minimalistic, typographic and simple addon for Genesis.…

Today I did something I’ve never done before: I started to “SEO Optimize” my WPShout posts, seeing which posts were doing well in search results and how I can make these posts do better in search results. I also had…

Recently there’s been a lot of (mis) information around about “how to start your own premium WordPress themes site”. They make all make it sound fairly easy. Just make a design, hack it into a WordPress theme, buckle on a…

Lots of posts on WPShout are art directed, so you may wish to view this in your browser --Really Easy Custom Post Backgrounds For WordPressAs I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been having great fun with the new Nometet.com design. It’s…

Lots of posts on WPShout are art directed, so you may wish to view this in your browser --Art Direction For WordPress“Art direction“, custom post designs, whatever you want to call them have taken off in a big way…

Lots of posts on WPShout are art directed, so you may wish to view this in your browser.iPhone optimised WordPress themes are nothing new, in fact, I expect many of you already have iPhone optimised themes using one of…

Lots of posts on WPShout are art directed, so you may wish to view this in your browser.It’s surprisingly easy to build a neat little featured content area in WordPress, using a custom query to grab a couple of posts…

We all know that WordPress 3.0 is coming and there are a whole plethora of new features, but actually adding them to themes? I had to do that today in an update to WPShift‘s ShiftNews. Trouble was I wanted to…

I’ll let you into a little secret. WordPress is a CMS. Arguably it’s a simple one, but it’s still a CMS; I’m currently writing my content and using WordPress as a system to manage my content. WordPress needn’t just manage…

Lots of posts on WPShout are art directed, so you may wish to view this in your browser.Drop caps are a really simple way of making your posts just that bit more interesting. They’re easy to do too — in…

In post images and captions aren’t usually a very exciting affair. Most themes don’t offer any support for captions and those that do don’t do anything exciting with them. In this post we’ll explore how to automatically spruce up your…

Lots of posts on WPShout are art directed, so you may wish to view this in your browser.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…

For the recent (first) design of my personal site I added in some Tumblr style functionality. In this post we’ll look at how WordPress can be used to create a Tumblog. We’ll be using a function that was added in…