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iThemes Video Interviews with Main Street Open

Terrell Sanders of MainStreetOpen.com, a WordPress vendor we refer to clients, invited us to do some video interviews with them regarding some recent news we announced.
Check out these videos:

My thoughts on why iThemes went GPL and what they means
Chris, our rockstar code ninja, gives his expert opinion on when someone should upgrade WordPress

In addition to [...]

WP Q&A: When Should I Update WordPress?

Hello again everyone. This is Chris Jean, iThemes’ very own Code Monkey. Today, I’m going to do my best to help you prepare for and plan WordPress upgrades.
When should a person upgrade their WordPress blog? Frankly, this is not an easy question to answer.
The answer is completely dependent upon what type of site you are [...]

iThemes Is Going GPL

Dear iThemes customer community and the whole WordPress community–
iThemes and those on our team have said for a long, long time, individually and collectively, that, “We love WordPress and we support, appreciate and respect open source contributions that have made it possible.”
WordPress is indeed beautiful, easy-to-use, and powerful software - made possible through contributions by [...]

Customizing Theme Menu with Filters

Hello everyone. Chris Jean, iThemes’ very own resident code monkey, here with some exciting news!
Many of our customers have asked for the ability to more easily modify our themes. Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to go through some of our code and add the ability to customize certain parts of the theme easily by using [...]

Join iThemes in Dallas for WordCamp June 27-28

The iThemes team will be attending Dallas WordCamp June 27-28 for the second year in a row.
If you’re unfamiliar with WordCamps these are 1- or 2-day conferences designed to talk about everything WordPress (from using it as a CMS, to tips on blogging better), networking (we’ve met a lot of great people at these events), [...]

Special Bonus 2009 Offer

Buy any iThemes theme and you’ll get a free copy of Billboard - Our easy to use advertising plugin!

Here are the details:

Must purchase a theme after June 1, 2009
Special bonus offer valid for new iThemes customers only after June 1, 2009

Once you’ve bought your theme and logged into the new iThemes Members Area, contact us [...]

Charlie WordPress Business Theme Released

The next iThemes WP theme being released is called Charlie, a blue and white business CMS theme.
Features include:

Featured Images script
4 Page Templates
Multi-level Dropdown Menus

Get purchase information here and take it for a test drive here

4 Ways WordPress Can Become a More Powerful CMS

WordPress is an amazing, easy-to-use piece of software. I first started using it for my blog and fell in love with how easy it was for me to tweak my theme and get great search engine results from simple things like the Google Sitemap Generator plugin and custom permalinks.
Although WordPress is billed as blog software, [...]

New Premium WordPress Hosting Solution from iThemes: Get Theme Included

Over the last year, we’ve heard from a lot of iThemes customers that one of the main problems with WordPress (as simple and awesome as it is) is just getting it installed … then getting their theme activated.
And although we’ve helped many of you get your WP site going and built video and post tutorials [...]

Special May 2009 Bonus Offer

We just updated our FlexxTheme to include some cool new stuff … and we’re offering a special bonus for customers who have purchased themes in May.
Buy any iThemes multi-use theme package in May 2009 and you’ll get a free single-use copy of FlexxTheme Professional ($79.95) — our hottest version.
Here are the details:

Must purchase a multi-use [...]

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