Blog - Part 3

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by Chris Jean

April 15th, 2013

There is a very real, very large ongoing attack against WordPress sites. It has been going on for a while now, but it severely escalated last week. While there is a lot of chatter about this situation around the web, I thought I should write this post for two reasons: 1) not everyone in our [...]

by Elise Alley

April 11th, 2013

We are so excited to announce the release of our new product Licensing System. The roll out for the new Licensing System is going to be a slow one. We’ll be adding it to just one plugin at a time. The rollout will be starting with Slideshow and will begin to roll out to all [...]

by Kevin D. Hendricks

April 11th, 2013

We’ve talked a lot about how to run a WordPress meetup. It’s fair to wonder if it’s worth all the effort. “There’s a great cost to one’s sanity. No! Just kidding,” says Tony Cecala, organizer of the Dallas-Fort Worth WordPress Meetup. “I’ve met a great number of people I call close friends.” Those relationships are [...]

by Kristen Wright

April 4th, 2013

Introducing Builder Child Air, a new foundational or starter child theme for iThemes Builder. Whether you’re using the Builder Style Manager or writing your own CSS, we hope Air will be a great new place to start when creating your custom responsive-ready Builder child themes. Check out the demo Theme Features Builder child Air includes several [...]

by Kristen Wright

April 1st, 2013

BackupBuddy 3.3 is officially in the wild with loads of new features to help make your WordPress backups and restores even easier. Here’s a recap of some of the new things you’ll see in this latest version of BackupBuddy: New BackupBuddy Features New “Cancel Backup” Button: A “Cancel Backup” button has been added to the Backup [...]

by Kevin D. Hendricks

March 27th, 2013

We’ve been talking WordPress meetups for a while now and we’ve collected some of the best of the best tips. Here are the top tips for creating awesome WordPress meetups: Promote, promote, promote. “Turnout generally depends on how good of a job we do with promotions,” says Toby Cryns, co-founder of the Minneapolis-St. Paul WordPress User Group. [...]

by Kristen Wright

March 26th, 2013

We just released BoomBar 1.0.3 with several new features, including: New seasonal style for spring Date picker for start and end dates Ability to automatically set a BoomBar as the new default on the start date New Spring Seasonal Style We included built-in seasonal styles for BoomBar as a fun way to change up your BoomBars [...]

by Kristen Wright

March 22nd, 2013

Life’s too short to not love your job! We believe it here at iThemes and we’re really excited to have just added a new eBook to our Pub Hub, Purposeful Paychecks: How to Find Lasting Career Happiness. In this eBook, Cory Miller (iThemes founder and CEO) shares the lifelong process of finding lasting career happiness by [...]

by Cory Miller

March 20th, 2013

A couple weeks ago we started thinking how you could calculate the replacement cost of your site’s content in another effort to showcase how vital it is to have a solid backup strategy for all of your WordPress sites. To give you a little backstory … I’ve personally lost content on my sites before. Back [...]

by Kristen Wright

March 19th, 2013

Great news! We just pushed out responsive-ready versions of the Builder child theme Acute series: original (grey) Acute Acute Red Acute Purple Acute Orange Acute Green Acute Blue All current Builder Developer Pack, All Access Theme Pass and Toolkit members will now find 4.0 versions of all six Acute child themes now available for download from [...]