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What Would It Cost You To Replace Your Site’s Content?

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: Cory Miller

January 26th, 2013

Last year I read a great book entitled “Who Do You Want Your Customers To Become?” It was a super short but invaluable read as we celebrate five years of business at iThemes. It helped me think about you, our amazing customer community, more broadly than just products we offer you, but where we’d like [...]

By: Cory Miller

January 16th, 2013

With our fifth anniversary sales, we’ve lowered our All Access Theme Pass that includes over 160 WordPress themes to just $197 (regularly $387). This includes the iThemes Builder Developer Pack (regularly $197 itself) with over 70+ child themes. It’s virtually every theme you need to build your own or client sites in WordPress! Through Jan. [...]

By: Cory Miller

January 15th, 2013

Five years ago this month, I started iThemes in my home office. (In fact, Matt Danner, our COO, uses my first desk. And yes, a lot of the team has some of my other hand-me-downs too.) I’ve learned that 5 years — be it on the web, in WordPress, or just as a small business [...]

By: Cory Miller

December 20th, 2012

It’s been a while since we’ve released a free WordPress theme, but I’m excited today to announce the first free theme release by Ty Carlson, lead developer of our Creative Services team, called December. December is a clean, simple, minimalistic theme with large, integrated featured images and styled post formats. It is also responsive. Test [...]

By: Kristen Wright

December 18th, 2012

Yesterday we celebrated Builder’s 3rd birthday with an impromptu snack break (goodies courtesy of Lisa Sabin-Wilson) … and a free Builder child theme download! Introducing Icebox, a new responsive-ready child theme for iThemes Builder: Check out the demo site here and download Icebox (free!) for 30 days. Enjoy!

By: Cory Miller

December 17th, 2012

It’s hard to believe that over three years ago now we launched iThemes Builder, our powerful theme framework. We originally built Builder to do what hardly any theme could do … make it easy to change layouts quickly and easily without having to know or change code. Chris started work on it in April 2009 [...]

By: Cory Miller

December 13th, 2012

Today, we’re doubling the free storage we’re offering on BackupBuddy Stash, our remote backup destination for BackupBuddy, going from 256MB to 512MB with every active membership account. That’s actually over half a gigabyte of free storage! Here’s why we’re doing it … We believe every WordPress site should have a holistic backup strategy … one [...]

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: Cory Miller

December 7th, 2012

As of Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, some customers may have issues with our automated email system, site membership and other issues with our sites due to issues with our dedicated hosting company attempting to migrate our servers without notice or warrant and thus causing issues with our sites currently. We’re actively working on this issue [...]