How to Format Your WordPress Blog Posts (Insights Based on 2,500,000-Words of Experience Publishing Content)
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Nearly 1.4 million WordPress blog posts are published every single day. And that’s great news(!) … somewhat.
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5 Best Custom Post Types Plugins for WordPress Compared
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With custom post types, you can turn your standard WordPress website into a fully-fledged content management system. On top of that, custom post types will also enable you to introduce some uniqueness on your site, and help it stand out from all the others.
(read more)40+ Best WordPress Blogs (And Their Best Posts)
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Want to expand your knowledge? This collection of the top blogs about WordPress and their most popular posts will help you discover the most valuable resources in the WordPress community.
(read more)Here’s How to Retrieve Any Post You Want With WP_Query
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If you’ve built simple themes in the past, chances are the need to retrieve posts on your own didn’t arise. After all, WordPress loads the most recent 10 posts on the main page and the correct posts on archive pages. What about more complex scenarios? What if you would like a sitemap of sorts and you want to list all your posts and pages ordered by date?
(read more)Really Easy Custom Post Backgrounds For WordPress
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As I mentioned before, I've been having great fun with the new Nometet.com design. It's now sporting a feature that allows the author to set a custom background for the post just by uploading an image. This image doesn't even need to be the correct size; that's all done on the fly. Uploading isn't hard either; I've implemented an uploader that sits inside a meta box so the hardest bit is choosing the image! In this post we'll have a look at how it's done.
(read more)Best Practices for Creating Unique Blog Posts
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Recently here on WPShout I've been sharing little tips that will help create a unique look for individual blog posts. Today we'll be rounding up the "best practices" for creating that unique look, the easy way.
(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)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)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)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.
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WordPress Shifts to Only One Major Release in 2025: What to Expect
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During the last week of March, nearly 30 WordPress core committers, project leaders, and team members gathered to discuss WordPress' release schedule. According to the meeting notes, the conversation was prompted by organizations reducing their contribution hours to the WordPress project. Ultimately, project leadership decided that WordPress 6.8 will be the only major release of 2025. In this post, we'll talk about what the implications of this are for your site(s) and how you can stay up to date in this new once-per-year world.
(read more)Modern WordPress Fast Track: Learn WordPress Development for the Modern Web
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Learn to build high-value block themes and plugins with AI and automation in a focused 10-week course.
(read more)Automattic Lays Off 281 People Across 90 Countries: The Web Reacts
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On Tuesday, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg sent ripples throughout the WordPress community with a blog post announcing the layoff of 281 employees – representing 16% of Automattic’s workforce.
(read more)I Lived 5 Minutes From the Ghibli Museum and Here’s My Thoughts on the Ghibli AI Trend
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Back in 2018 I spent some time in the city of Mitaka - which happens to be where the Ghibli Museum is located. I walked by it several times a week and have fond memories from there. When the internet became flooded with Ghibli style art last week after OpenAI released their newest AI image generator, my reaction was probably more visceral than most people's. After spending some time Ghibli-ficating myself, reading others' opinions, and having a few days to reflect on it all, here are my thoughts.
(read more)15+ Best WordPress Themes of 2025 – Multipurpose, Mobile-Ready, and Beautiful
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Most WordPress theme lists bore me. So I made one that's actually useful. This post covers 15+ WordPress themes that real users love, backed by solid ratings, and good numbers of "active installations." I picked only themes people genuinely like, not just ones that look good on demos.
(read more)How to Add Search to a Static WordPress Site for Free Using Lunr
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If you have a static WordPress site or you're strongly considering launching one, then you're probably already aware of its default limitations. One of the big ones is the inability to add a search function to your site. But with a little bit of creative thinking, you can use a free, open-source JavaScript library called Lunr (along with a few other tools) to get around that problem and build one anyway. Here's how...
(read more)How to Add Contact Forms to a Static WordPress Site for Free
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Static WordPress sites have a lot of advantages over more traditional WordPress projects. In most cases they are cheaper, faster, and more secure. However, one big drawback is that you can't use contact forms on your pages or posts by default. In this guide I'm going to show you a free solution to get around this problem.
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