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 [...]

So many of you in our community have asked why we’re recommending Site5 for WordPress shared hosting now and I thought I’d answer that with this blog post. In 2008, I bought a shared hosting plan with HostGator for iThemes.com and remarkably we survived and thrived on that small cheap plan for almost two years [...]

Siobhan McKeown, a writer for Smashing Magazine, just published a great post on How to Become a Top WordPress Developer, in which I’m quoted several times. When she initially approach me about the article a while back she gave me four questions and wanted to share all my answers in full with you here. So [...]

Today we launched iThemes Stocking Stuffers … our way to share a little early Christmas joy and we’re giving away over $3400 in free WordPress prizes (and other fun goofy holiday stuff). Each weekday from Dec. 3-21, we’re giving away something pretty cool from some of my friends like …. HomeWetBar.com All in One SEO [...]

This morning (Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012) we discovered a security issue with all of our product ZIP files affecting customers who downloaded theme and plugins from our member’s area from Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 until Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012 at 10 a.m. Central Standard Time. This affected approximately 300 customers and we’re emailing those customers [...]

Entrepreneurship is a passion of mine. And for the last couple of years, I’ve become increasingly more intentional about helping budding entrepreneurs live their own dreams … and yes, learn from my mistakes as well as the things we’ve learned that have helped make us successful! Since starting iThemes in January 2008, and thus fulfilling [...]

This week my good friend, Sandip Patel, based here in Oklahoma City, walked me through the all-new Cage, an online collaboration software perfect for web designers, photographers, videographers or anyone wanting to be able to streamline the design input and feedback stage of client work. Go signup for a free trial today to take it for [...]