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Speeding Up WordPress: 2.0

A couple of weeks ago I ran a series of posts on Shout about making WordPress run faster. We explored concepts like caching, CDNs; the usual. I always felt the series never really got off the ground and wasn't suited to small posts, hence I embarked on writing what I thought would be WPShout's first eBook!

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Premium Frameworks Reviewed

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 commercial frameworks I could think of bar Thesis, who didn't reply to me emails. This is an unbiased, unaffiliated look at what your options are if you want something to build more WordPress sites off.

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On Modded Premium Themes

As someone who quite likes being controversial from time to time, I thought I'd vent some steam on people releasing "modded" premium themes. This post attempts to take an unbiased view, considering both sides and producing a coherent and acceptable conclusion backed by evidence. Attempts, anyway...

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WordPress Books Reviewed

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.

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