Seeing how WordPress has become the favorite of many when it comes to going through an easy-breezy process while designing a stunning site or blog, well, we decided to sum up the top 160 best online sources with the latest and most complete information on WordPress: resources, plug-ins, themes, trends, news, etc., so the next time that you come across a web design project on WordPress you have a listing to go to that’s updated and useful (for real). Weather your thing is blogs on wp topics, following twitter accounts from hard core wp developers, or just getting a hold of any wp resource you can get your hands on, here you’ll find it all just a click away. Please let us know in comments if we missed something.  

Believe it or not we’ve managed to sum up for you guys 300 Free Word Press Themes (2012 edition)…Yeah that’s right while others have settle with giving you a merely decent listing of 50, 100, or even 20 Free WordPress Themes, here at themeshock.com knowing how for really consumed Web designers/developers probably 150 or even 200 WP themes just won’t be enough, so we thought that 300 would be just right!  

Hello friends, today we want to recommend you the latest tutorial from our sister page Webdesignshock featuring an amazing vintage photo slider powered with jQuery and PHP. The tutorial includes a live demo and all the required files ready for download, definitely a nice resource to utilize in your website or design projects.

Well, as we already know that WordPress 3.3 will be out on November 15, we think that it’s about time to start witnessing the novelties that are waiting for us, which are going to be really interesting. There are plenty of things left in terms of development, which up to this day is at 30%, however one can guess interesting upgrades that you’re definitely going to like. So, let’s take a look at the main features of this new WP version:
 

Today we have an enormous and new bundle for all you guys, we have created the initial 50 themes using our latest tool: The wordpress theme generator, an amazing builder that help you create unlimited themes in an easy to use interface, you might also want to check our premium wordpress themes

What’s up guys?, it’s time for a new countdown that we’re sure more than one of you will enjoy. This post is dedicated to all the WordPress fans out there, we have joined together an extended list with over 100 WordPress-powered websites that feature some of the most eye-catching designs on the web. The list will also include BuddyPress-powered sites, which as most of you probably know, consists in an open source WordPress plugin that can turn your site into a fully working social network.

After many speculation around this, Google has just released the plus one (+1) button, which more than being a clone of Facebook’s like is actually a great social add-on to search results. The greatness of +1 relies on the fact that by using this button your friends can let you know when something is worth watching. Currently the +1 button is only available for English results, though it will be spreading to other languages in the next months.

If you have decided to mount a blog, the first thing you should check is which platform is the fittest in terms of functionality, customization, accessibility, etc. Our personal recommendation for newcomers is indeed WordPress, a powerful and user-friendly CMS, perfect to help you start a blog without having to worry excessively about programming and server-side issues but rather concentrating all your energy on creating rich contents and enjoying the blogging experience.

Once you the decision of working with WordPress has been taken, the next thing you need to figure out is which hosting service is the most appropriate for your site. To help with this, we have made a complete assessment on the top hosting services where you can host a WordPress site, we hope this article can help you choose the best service wherein mount your site.

This afternoon while we were making a research for the next ThemeShock article, we noticed that ‘wordpress login’, one of the search terms that we were using for the post was being highly requested by users. We did not find a particular reason for this, so we started to investigate the reason and the result among others, revealed to us two main causes: First, people want to change their WordPress login page for something prettier and with more customization. Secondly, there seems to be a necessity for possess a shorter and friendlier URL for their WP login. On this post we will be covering these two major points and then we’re going to give you a great roundup featuring useful tricks and tips regarding wp-login.

Everyday we found new functions to implement in our WordPress site to make it faster and easier to use. These functions can range from something as simple as changing a category to embedding custom widgets on it. Today we want to talk about one of the most simple functions that still we tend to overlook, the logout function.

Considering the amount of times a person who works with WordPress accesses the Dashboard, it’s probably that you’ve ever wondered about an effective way of shortening the login address. Well, now that’s not only possible but easy to do thanks to our friend Kevin Shard, who brought us the following trick that will make your WordPress login look like ‘http://yourweb.com/login’.

All you have to do is include a rule within your .htaccess file that as you know, is located inside the root directory of your WordPress installation. Here’s an example for the case when you only put the login, but you can use whatever word you prefer.

We all know WordPress, the famous CMS utilized by hundreds of persons around the world that choose it due its many advantages in front of other similar content management systems. Its usage is really simple and anyone can master its basic tools in a short time period.

Because it’s so easy to use, web developers create custom themes for WP all the time, some of them more focused in functionality and others in design, but despite their approach, the truth is that every day new great themes are released, making the competition something really great between designers. On this countdown we have gathered a huge list featuring the best WordPress galleries where you can either send your designs or simply grasp some inspiration by looking at other people’s work.

Sometimes when we’re working in a new web template and we apply styles to its navigation menu, we forget about the existence of default menu, page’s listing. The difference between this menu and customs is that WordPress removes the class “menu” to the default menu and assigns it to the <div> (menu’s container).

Mastering WordPress has a lot of trial and error, and to help you in that process we have compiled a huge list with more than 100 places where you can find the latest WordPress updates, awesome tutorials and download useful freebies.