iThemes Launching WordPress Plugins Store

I wrote a detailed post over on my blog talking about the Need for a Premium WordPress Plugin Market after my recent trip to WordCamp Boston.
I state two things:

The need is great
The time is right

Although iThemes has been in the premium WordPress plugin for almost a year now with our Billboard ad plugin, we will [...]

Builder Style Manager Beta Released

Chris Jean was hard at work this week to release the beta version of the Builder Style Manager. He’ll be using this time to fix issues that rise up and collect input from you on what things you like, or would like to see added, etc.
The Style Manager beta version is available in your member’s [...]

Project Management for Web Design Workshop Feb. 26

Good project management is critical to running a freelance web design business.
Client communication, your development workflow, getting paid, keeping things on schedule and juggling several projects and clients at the same time are all vital skills to being a successful freelance web designer.
With that, WebDesign.com is pleased to offer an in-depth workshop on project management [...]

Free Social Media Icon Set

Here are a couple of social icon sets that you can feel free to download and use on your site. If you don’t mind, post a link to your site where you use the icons so we can see them in action.
Here is a preview of the Bubble set:

Here is a preview of the Gears [...]

Photos From iThemes Bootcamp in Dallas

Here is a gallery of a few photos from Bootcamp. We had a blast getting to meet some of our great community, and we are glad they came and shared their time with us.

Improve WordPress Development with the Codex and Grep

My tips for this week will help you become a better WordPress developer and designer. The WordPress Codex is your first stop to learn more about WordPress functions. To dig deeper than what the Codex can offer, use Grep to locate functions inside WordPress so you can see exactly how they work.
WordPress Codex
If you are [...]

Win an Amazon Kindle Through Builder Child Theme Contest

For the month of February, we are putting on a Builder Child-Theme contest.
The rules are simple:

Create a Builder Child-Theme – Be as creative as you can. Don’t forget to take advantage of the hooks you can find in the Builder Codex.
Release it to the community for free download – You can post your child-theme in [...]

Structuring Your HTML Document

I see a lot of broken sites. It seems like the leading cause for simple breaks in a site is a missing closing tag. It happens to everyone from time to time, but there really is a simple solution that can make life much easier: Proper structure.
Sure, you can have ugly html and still have [...]

Bootcamp Summary Video

Our first ever iThemes Bootcamp ended Saturday night, but not before making another video!
Here’s some footage of the weekend as well as some feedback from attendees about what they learned and how they would rate the first Bootcamp.

iThemes Bootcamp – Day 1

From 9:00am to almost 5:30pm, WordPress and iThemes users sat in a conference room talking, learning and sharing ideas.
Here’s a quick video from the first day of our theme Bootcamp in Dallas, TX.