I've had great success and ease-of-use with Bluehost (bluehost.com) and its subsidiary Hostmonster (hostmonster.com). They are an affordable shared host that do all the domain stuff as well. Their support is great and they have the latest version of CPanel. If you wanted to make LAMP or Rails applications they have support for that as well. Overall with domain, connersc.com was $120 for two years.

Sometimes when the shared server is getting pounded, remote-ssh development can be a little laggy but if you are running Wordpress (which is in CPanel as a turnkey installation), you should be fine.

There are probably other hosts out there, but as far as service and price its been working for me so far. I even put clients on it (before moving the others to rackspace).