Search Google and just about every article you come along will tell you that in order to have a secure blog, you need X amount of plugins. I disagree. I use none yet I’m satisfied I have a reasonable level of security. I use a number of techniques to keep the site safe, which I’ll discuss over the course of the... Read More »

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. In the beginning It all started way back in April when I launched a blog called Nometech.com. The content started off a... Read More »

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 . Not to point fingers at anyone, but I’m going to be perfectly honest about what I think of... Read More »

Well this is exciting. WPShout 3.0, the third incarnation of the WPShout design has arrived. Inspiration from… This new design is more suited to the “art direction” posts that have been popping up recently and they’re certainly something that I want to start doing more of – this post has a Perishable... Read More »

Just a quick tip today, but a favourite of mine. Moving your wp-content area. Why would you want to do this? It looks just that bit nicer to have your images uploaded to /media/ than /wp-content/. In this post we’ll learn how to tell WordPress to upload images and other media to /media/. Really easy this. Click on... Read More »