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Syndicate: New WordPress News Theme Released
By Cory MillerOur next WordPress theme is called Syndicate – designed for content heavy sites like news, membership sites and blogs. Here are some of the features: Cool home page slider with post snippets we developed specifically for Syndicate 10 widget ready areas including one below posts for e-mail subscription forms or ads Uses Google Fonts API [...]
Free Webinar: Backup Strategies for WordPress with BackupBuddy
By Cory MillerBenjamin Bradley, our instructor at WebDesign.com, will be doing a free special webinar in our PluginFocus series on BackupBuddy on Monday, Aug. 2 from 6-7 p.m. Central Time. Many responsible WordPress users have already installed BackupBuddy to protect their precious content. Still others want to tempt fate and hope that their content is safe. In [...]
Restaurant Builder Block and Child Theme Released
By Matt DannerMost of you that follow our show and our tweets have probably been hearing a lot about the new Builder Blocks. Builder Blocks basically package everything you need for niche site creation, including custom post types, custom taxonomies, and any needed custom widgets in to one easy to deploy package. For a lot of folks, [...]
WordPress 3.0, Gravity Forms, and a new show at WebDesign.com
By Benjamin Bradley WDThe current weather here in Washington DC is considered a CODE RED. The heat and humidity have combined to make it a miserable mess when you walk outside. And to make matters worse, a fast moving and powerful storm caused so much damage that it caused my firestation to move to a “Condition #2″, which [...]
Builder: The Theme Your Theme Could Be Like
By Ted HarrisonWhen iThemes designer Brad Ulrich isn’t speaking incredibly awesome WordPress designs into existence, he’s showcasing Builder: the theme your theme could be like. p.s. We love the Old Spice Guy.
LisaSabin-Wilson.com Switches To Builder
By Brad UlrichWe love when people make our themes their own. With design touches, additional functions and their own personal flavor, we’ve seen some amazing sites built using our framework, Builder. Lisa Sabin-Wilson, of WordPress For Dummies and E.Webscapes fame, recently redesigned her personal site using Builder. Our team has gotten to hang out with Lisa a lot [...]
iThemes TV – July 13
By Sarah SheldoniThemes Updates: WordCamp Boulder – The crew returned from their first iThemes roadtrip to WordCamp Boulder. They have several stories to share about their experience! The RV Trip – For WordCamp Boulder, some of the gang hit the road in an RV, including friend and author Lisa Sabin-Wilson. Visit their official roadtrips site to see [...]
iThemes Bios: Get to Know Matt Danner
By Ted HarrisonMatt Danner is a photography nerd and WordPress developer. He rents a room from his wife, Jessi, and their dog, Dakota. You can usually find Matt in Cory’s office asking him to spend money on something, or demanding a fresh pot of coffee from a helpless barista. Watch the above video to find out more [...]
iThemes Special Launch Show Thursday, July 8
By Cory MillerSince we didn’t have an official iThemes.tv show today and have been working on a number of projects for release this week, we’ve decided to do a special launch webinar on Thursday, July 8 at 3 p.m. Central. Here’s what we’re going to be talking about …. and what I think you’re going to want [...]
Important Builder Updates
By Chris JeanBuilder 2.4.15 was released yesterday. In addition, the following plugins were updated: Builder Style Manager (version 0.1.7), Builder SEO (version 0.0.12), and Tabber Widget (version 1.0.3). The updates didn’t add any new features, but they did add an important change to the code contained in each one. The full story on that is technical and [...]
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