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Builder 3.2: iThemes Builder Goes to the Gym
Presenting iThemes Builder 3.2. This release is available now in your member area. This release is a bit special, so I’d like to take a few minutes of your time to talk about it. As projects get older, they pick up more features, expand in scope, and like many of us humans, put on some extra pounds. With this release, I really wanted to make Builder a lean, mean, fighting [...]
Preparing for Builder 3.2 Release
The release of Builder 3.2 (details coming soon) is scheduled for tomorrow morning. This release has two big changes: both the Billboard and FeedBurner Widget features have been removed from Builder. If you are a fan of these features, fret not as they are still available. All active Builder members now have Billboard and FeedBurner Widget available as plugin downloads in your member area. You can find them listed below [...]
Preparing for WordPress 3.2
With the WordPress 3.2 beta 1 release earlier this week, I think now is a good time to prepare for the 3.2 full release. WordPress 3.2 will feature many changes that you may want to prepare for. End of Support for Internet Explorer 6 First, Internet Explorer 6 will no longer be supported by WordPress starting with the 3.2 release. It’s important to know that this affects the dashboard of [...]
iThemes Builder Import/Export Beta Test
Update: The beta has completed successfully with the release of Builder 2.8.0. Thank you to all that participated. I am very pleased to announce that we are now ready to start the beta test for the new Builder version that includes the import/export feature. A beta test is when a pre-release product is made available to users for further testing before the final release. We don’t do many releases like [...]
New Builder Theme Settings Released
iThemes Builder version 2.7.0 released yesterday. This version brought a huge number of changes. The biggest change for most Builder users is the new settings screen. A new settings screen sounds boring, but these new settings give users access to new features and control over existing features. I’ll describe the changes in more detail below, but a video may communicate some of the details more clearly. Full screen and other [...]
New Builder Settings Sneak Peak
A couple of months ago, the iThemes team talked about the future of Builder and set some short-term and long-term goals. One of the long-term goals was to make a big push for making Builder easier to use. A big part of this drive towards making Builder easier to use is to rebuild each of the settings and editor screens, to offer a section with easy-to-use basic options that most [...]
Important Builder Updates
Builder 2.4.15 was released yesterday. In addition, the following plugins were updated: Builder Style Manager (version 0.1.7), Builder SEO (version 0.0.12), and Tabber Widget (version 1.0.3). The updates didn’t add any new features, but they did add an important change to the code contained in each one. The full story on that is technical and likely to be quite boring (I’ll expand on this for those interested later in the [...]
WordPress 3.0 Released
The greatly anticipated WordPress 3.0 launch has finally come. We highly recommend that you read the official release announcement on WordPress blog. The announcement post contains a couple of great videos about the release. The first video is a quick walkthrough of what is new in 3.0. The second video is Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word presentation at this year’s WordCamp San Francisco and covers a history of how [...]
Builder SEO Plugin Beta Overview Video
Since many people are excited about this new feature, I thought a video overview would be helpful to show what options are offered. This plugin is available as a beta to our Builder customers. Once the code is well-tested and the features are finalized, these SEO features will be bundled directly into the theme.
iThemes Builder Reviewed by Technosailor
I love it when people critique my work as it gives me a great sense of accomplishment when I improve on my weak areas. So, when I heard that Technosailor (Aaron Brazell) wanted to do a review of WordPress theme frameworks and that Builder would be included, I got really excited. Aaron just published the review with the epic title of Battle of the Titans: Premium Theme Framework Smackdown. If [...]
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