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New in BackupBuddy 3.1.6: ImportBuddy cPanel Database Creation, Customizable Email Notifications & More

By: Kristen Wright

December 12th, 2012

The latest version release of BackupBuddy brought several great feature additions and enhancements we know you’ll appreciate — from customizable email notifications to cPanel database creation within ImportBuddy. Just make sure you’re running the latest version of BackupBuddy to take advantage of all the great new things in BackupBuddy 3.1.6. FEATURE: cPanel databases can now be [...]

By: Kristen Wright

December 5th, 2012

Boom Bar has just been released into the wild! All current DisplayBuddy and Plugin Developer Suite members will now find Boom Bar available for immediate download in their iThemes Member Panel. So, what is it? Boom Bar is a new plugin that makes it easy to add top or bottom notification bars to your WordPress [...]

By: Kristen Wright

November 28th, 2012

Earlier this month, we welcomed Glenn Ansley to the iThemes team. Glenn is a veteran WordPress developer and he’s already helping to take our plugins to the next level with his first plugin project, Boom Bar. Boom Bar is due out any day and we wanted to share this preview, because we know you’re going to [...]

By: Kristen Wright

November 26th, 2012

Right in time for the holidays, the Theme Team has just released a brand new (and responsive!) ecommerce child theme for Builder: Thrifty. With a simple, minimalist design, Thrifty perfectly showcases your products by combining the usefulness of three popular ecommerce plugins with Builder’s powerful layout engine: Support for Three Ecommerce Plugins Each of the following [...]

By: Kristen Wright

November 15th, 2012

The theme team just released a brand new responsive-ready child theme for iThemes Builder, Avail. With a clean, modern design, Avail is great for business or corporate websites: Responsive-Ready Paired with iThemes Builder 4.0, Avail automatically responds for mobile, tablet and desktop viewing. Check out Avail’s demo site to see it in action. Sample Layouts Check [...]

By: Kristen Wright

November 14th, 2012

Last week we pushed out BackupBuddy 3.1.4 which includes some great new feature updates. Most of these updates were features that were requested by users in our recent BackupBuddy survey, so thanks to everyone that contributed feedback — your suggestions were definitely put to use! 1. Import/Export BackupBuddy settings from one site to another Now you [...]

By: Kristen Wright

November 13th, 2012

Today we’re very proud to unveil the new design for WebDesign.com. In the three years since we launched WebDesign.com, we’ve been committed to providing quality, professional WordPress training and to fostering a special community for web designers, developers and business owners using WordPress. Our WebDesign.com members are really special to us, and many of them [...]

By: Kristen Wright

November 13th, 2012

Great news! Slideshow, from our DisplayBuddy series of plugins, has just been updated for use with responsive themes, like iThemes Builder. Now your Slideshow image groups will dynamically respond to browser widths and mobile devices for a seamless viewing experience. Activating Slideshow’s New Responsive Rendering Mode Slideshow 2.0′s new responsive rendering mode works in both Slider [...]

By: Kristen Wright

November 1st, 2012

Today @ 4pm CDT: Join the BackupBuddy Team for a special launch webinar about BackupBuddy Stash. They’ll be covering how to set up BackupBuddy Stash as your remote destination and how to use it for managing your BackupBuddy backups. Bring your questions about BackupBuddy Stash, too – they’ll be ready with answers. See you there! [...]

By: Kristen Wright

October 31st, 2012

BackupBuddy v3.1 includes support for BackupBuddy Stash, our secure off-site storage destination for your BackupBuddy backups. Storing your BackupBuddy backups off-site means you always have an insurance plan if your site goes down, so all BackupBuddy purchases come preloaded with with 256MB of free BackupBuddy Stash storage space. From our experience, this is usually enough for one complete BackupBuddy [...]