Some simple housekeeping can make a world of difference to the likelihood of your site getting hacked. Kim Crawley has the tricks

CMS gets efficiency boost from tools for import and asset-management

Jesse Friedman, author of the Web Designer's Guide to WordPress, helps us avoid common WordPress mistakes and takes a look at some myths and misgivings to boot

Described as empty shell for creating powerful WordPress sites

Tailor the Administration Screens in WordPress to match your client's branding with Thomas Hardy's guide to customising the popular CMS

The Loop is the basis of dynamic content in WordPress. Joe Casabona explains what it does, how to use it, and resolves the most common Loop-related queries

WordPress has a fantastic feature called shortcodes. Paul Maloney shows you how they work and offers up a few examples of shortcodes you can use in your WordPress install

This month we've invited 10 experts in web design and development to reveal their top tips for 10 essential areas of building websites. We cover HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Photoshop, Fireworks, WordPress, Drupal, SEO and responsive design

Frontend designer David Smith responds to Jesse Friedman's article on responsive design with WordPress and presents an alternative way to deal with images

WordPress is the world’s most popular CMS with over 70 million users, but how safe is your install? Paul Maloney shows you how to secure your WordPress site with .htaccess.

Developer Jesse Friedman suggests making widgets work like menus

Get more out of content management systems! We reveal helpful techniques to create responsive websites in WordPress and if you fancy an alternative, why you may actually would want to switch to Drupal

In this tutorial, we will cover how you can easily include pre-packaged or repository plug-ins with a WordPress theme and prompt users to install and activate them in one single step, using native WordPress classes and interfaces

In this new regular feature Mark Penfold rounds up 10 of the best new tools for web designers and developers that we have come across. This time many are small, free and based on JavaScript

Restaurant sites can be pretty bad. WordPress developer Noel Tock tells us how he's trying to change that with happytables, a service that makes it easy for restaurant owners to manage their sites

Web developer Jesse Friedman explains how you can integrate responsive web design with WordPress and goes over both the advantages and challenges of responsive theming

WordPress has a search function which has developers opinions split. Freelancer Paul Maloney shows us how to replace the search function with a super powered Google Custom Search engine

After part one’s introduction to cloud hosting, it’s time to step things up a notch. Now Dan Frost of 3EV (3ev.com) explains how to set up and run a WordPress site on the cloud, and looks at some advanced features to help improve your site’s performance