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Just Released: Everett, a New Builder Child Theme

By: Kristen Wright

June 13th, 2013

We’ve just added a new theme to the Builder child theme library — Everett. Everett features a sleek and simple design with a new built-in mobile navigation menu, full window images and HTML “callout” blocks. See the Everett Demo Here’s an overview of Everett’s theme-specific features: Featured Images and Post Titles Everett features a unique [...]

By: Kristen Wright

June 11th, 2013

BackupBuddy 4.0 just released with a TON of incredible new features. In part 1, we covered BackupBuddy’s new individual file view and restore capabilities. In this post, we’ll be showing off BackupBuddy’s new backup profiles and several more new features in 4.0. Creating a Backup Profile With BackupBuddy’s new backup profiles, you can: Customize each backup type [...]

By: Kristen Wright

June 11th, 2013

Our dev team has been hard at work on our summer launch of iThemes Exchange, but today we’re also really excited to announce a major BackupBuddy version update with some incredible new features. In fact, there are so many new features with this release, we’re breaking this announcement post up into two parts so we can [...]

By: Kristen Wright

June 6th, 2013

Today, Billboard, another of our DisplayBuddy plugins, is going responsive! Live Demo Enabling Responsive Billboard Images 1. After updating to Billboard 2.0, expand the DisplayBuddy menu from the WordPress dashboard navigation menu and click the Billboard page. 2. From the Billboard Groups (Add New) page, you’ll now see the “Enable Responsive Images” option. Displaying Billboard on Your [...]

By: Kristen Wright

June 3rd, 2013

OklahomaRock.com, the latest custom iThemes Builder-powered work from iThemes Creative Services, just launched today! This site is full of interesting solutions to some complicated problems, so join Ty Carlson, lead designer and dev for this project, for a two-part webinar later this week, June 6 and 7. You’ll get a special look behind the design concepts, [...]

By: Kristen Wright

May 30th, 2013

Are you ready for a comprehensive course to help get you off the starting blocks and into the journey of building sites with WordPress? Get ready for the WordPress Web Design Workshop from WebDesign.com, June 11–13, 2013. During this free online course, Benjamin Bradley, the Professor at WebDesign.com, will walk through everything you need to know to get [...]

By: Kristen Wright

May 16th, 2013

Introducing Attent, the latest Builder child theme designed for bloggers. Attent features a minimalistic design and a simple color scheme. With several alternate module styles like a built-in mobile nav and full window images, Attent is one of our favorite additions to the Builder child theme library. See the Attent Demo Here’s an overview of [...]

By: Kristen Wright

May 1st, 2013

A few weeks ago, Chris Jean posted this in-depth blog post covering the recent WordPress security attacks. In his post, Chis outlined several ways to protect your site, so we created these 5 new tutorial videos covering everything from how to manually install WordPress to how to update your wp-config.php keys — all ways to [...]

By: Kristen Wright

April 30th, 2013

Introducing Coverage, a news and magazine child theme for iThemes Builder. Featuring a totally-new-to-Builder custom widget for displaying post content, Coverage was built and designed specifically with content-rich news and magazine sites in mind. Check out the theme demo Introducing the News & Magazine Custom Widget Coverage’s News & Magazine Custom Widget allows you to [...]

By: Kristen Wright

April 24th, 2013

Today we’re excited to announce that Carousel, from our DisplayBuddy series of plugins, has just been updated for use with responsive WordPress themes. Now your Carousel image groups will dynamically respond to browser widths with an option to enable swipe navigation for mobile devices. Creating a Responsive Carousel Image Group 1. After updating to Carousel 2.0, [...]