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Score One for Web Freedom
The good news is … SOPA and PIPA have been delayed by the House and Senate. The bad news is … they will come back with brand new clothes, a shiny new name, and more teeth soon. In fact, they could come back with a venegeance because of the forces behind them. Millions of people rallied together to tell those who represent us that we will fight to protect our [...]
Just Released: Student Edition of WordPress Web Designer’s ToolKit
The Student Edition of the WordPress Web Designer’s ToolKit is now available to qualifying students attending high school, college, technical and/or web design schools. If you are a full-time student interested in, or simply curious about, web development and WordPress web design, this is the perfect opportunity for you to access professional tools and gain premium training. The Web Designer’s ToolKit is the flagship offering at iThemes, including all themes, [...]
Censorship Sucks, Freedom Rocks
Many of you may have heard the ruckus about two bills going through the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives that seek to limit your web freedom. They are Software Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act. And you should contact your senator and representative today to tell them you OPPOSE them. Fight for Future has all the gory details (aka a great resource site) for learning more at [...]
Just Released: Adept, a Child Theme for Builder
Introducing Adept, a stylish new child theme for iThemes Builder. Percfect for small businesses or professional bloggers, Adept features a sleek design to pair with Builder’s great flexibility and functionality for easily building WordPress websites. Adept features: simple navigation with great button styling and secondary dropdown styles alternate module styles for navigation and widget modules to configure your site exactly to your specifications: Default navigation and widget styles Alternate [...]
Celebrating 4 Years at iThemes
This month, iThemes celebrates 4 years of serving our awesome customer community. In 2008, iThemes was launched out of the home office of our founder, Cory Miller. Since then, we’ve grown to over 20 employees around the US and globe, and staked out a surprisingly sizable portion of an office complex. Over the years, we’ve learned that mottos are important. We even had one cut out of foam (yes, it can [...]
Free WordPress 101 Tutorial – Getting Started with WordPress
In this week’s free WordPress tutorial, Benjamin Bradley reviews 18 critical elements you need to know when setting up your WordPress site, including some insights into hidden areas of the dashboard and how to create an easier work flow. In addition to learning about privacy settings, filling out your profile – how and why you want to do this, how to access advanced options when creating posts and pages, how [...]
Four Years and Counting on the Entrepreneurial Adventure at iThemes
In 2008 I started my entrepreneurial journey with the founding of iThemes. This month, in fact, is my four year anniversary of becoming a full-time entrepreneur and living my lifelong dream. Throughout the years as we’ve enjoyed our definition of success and others have seen it, I’ve been increasingly asked by friends and acquaintances about how they can get started in entrepreneurship. Thus, I started StartupSofa to be an online [...]
2011 Year in Review at iThemes
2011 has been an incredible year for iThemes, our team and our customer community. As I sit here on New Year’s Eve and reflect on the past 365 days or so, looking down a long list of things we’ve done, I can’t help but feel a sense of pride for our team’s work and how far we’ve come. It’ll be four years next month that I started iThemes in my [...]
Just Released: Depot, an eCommerce Child Theme for Builder
Depot, the greatly-anticipated eCommerce Child Theme for Builder, has just been released! Depot features full integration and optimization of three different WordPress Ecommerce plugins: Shopp, Cart66 and WP-Ecommerce. Operating on iThemes Builder’s powerful layout engine and paired with either of these eCommerce plugins, Depot is the perfect store-front for your WordPress-powered website or blog. From the Depot Demo site, select your eCommerce plugin to view the customized plugin-specific version of the theme: [...]
Save Big on iThemes Builder Until December 31st
iThemes Builder turned 2 this month! To celebrate, you can save BIG – a whole 33%. Just use coupon code BUILDER2 to save 33% on the iThemes Builder Developer Pack, The Builder Foundation Pack, or any of the 50+ individual child themes available in the Builder Theme Warehouse. Make sure you make your selection before midnight on December 31st – because the coupon is only good until the end of [...]
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