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Our First Builder Child Theme for BuddyPress: Yukon
We’re happy to say that we just released our first Builder child theme for BuddyPress: Yukon. Check out the demo which features Yukon’s styling for your Builder/BuddyPress site: Yukon styles BuddyPress features for member profiles, network activity/updates, groups, and forums: To set up your Builder + BuddyPress site, follow these recommended activation steps: 1. Install WordPress 2. Upload the BuddyPress plugin (from WP repository) 3. Activate and follow the BuddyPress installation five-step walkthrough (during step [...]
Friends of iThemes Stories: Bonnie Burtraw
Earlier this year we launched the Friends of iThemes to our customer community as a way to connect our customers with the “inside scoop” about everything going on at iThemes. The Friends of iThemes graciously gave us their photos to help decorate our office walls (you may have already seen the installation of the “Friends of iThemes” wall on the blog last month) and we thought it would also be cool to celebrate some of [...]
Our Plan for Investing in You This Year
I’ve just rolled out our LifeDev plans as part of our Make Waves Manifestos at iThemes today. It is our way to invest in you — our community and our team. It is one way for us to give back and give of ourselves and I hope you will join us in doing so. Throughout the year (or next 10 months), we’ll be rolling out training through webinars and blog [...]
BackupBuddy Month Kicks Off + New eBook
We are pumped. BackupBuddy 3.0 is set for release in late March, so we’re celebrating with the team at PluginBuddy all month long. We’ve scheduled a whole lineup of giveaways, savings, and cool new content and resources, and compiled everything that’s going on here on the BackupBuddy month page. We’ll be keeping this page updated throughout the month, so you won’t miss anything. With a 3.0 feature list that has [...]
Get Your Name on the Guest List for the Buffalo Lounge at SXSW
The iThemes crew is proud to be sponsoring the 2012 Buffalo Lounge at South by Southwest! Oklahoma (yes, Oklahoma) is home to a host of established and emerging tech companies, so we’re excited to be partnering to bring one awesome party to the interactive portion on Monday night, March 12, 2012 from 8PM to 2AM at Friends (208 E.6th Street, Austin, TX). The Buffalo Lounge at SXSW will not disappoint. The interactive [...]
What’s Coming Next from iThemes in 2012
2012 State of iThemes Address: Make Waves View more presentations from Cory Miller Last night I shared our 2012 strategic plan, goals and theme with our customer community in my annual State of iThemes address. This is always a special time to connect with our community and share our vision, passions, values and philosophies … oh, and projects we’re aiming at. (Full webinar recordings are embedded at the end of [...]
Chris and Dan at WordCamp Phoenix!
Our own Chris Jean and Dan Harzheim will be at WordCamp Phoenix this weekend! Give them a hello and don’t miss Chris’ talk Don’t S**t in the Pool: How Your Code Can Ruin WordPress for Others. Chris will unpack the most-frequent causes of plugin and theme conflicts and why they’re such an issue for the WordPress community. He’ll also make sure you know how to avoid, well, leaving your “mark” with poor coding [...]
Just released: Three New Color Variations of Vow
You asked us for them, so here they are: three new color variations of Vow, the stylish wedding child theme for iThemes Builder. With clean lines, a fun textured default site background, and the popular ribbon-style navigation menu, these new color options of Vow will be the perfect partner to your wedding site needs. Best of all, since they operate on Builder’s powerful page layout engine, you’ll have the most [...]
(RE)Introducing iThemesBuilder.com as the iThemes Builder Community Site
We’re excited to announce a new hub for resources and information for the iThemes Builder Community: iThemesBuilder.com. Our theme team has been hard at work rebuilding the site, hoping to enhance the Builder user experience with an easy-to-navigate location for Builder tutorials, news, and releases: Nearly three years ago Chris Jean had a vision of what themes should do when it comes to creating layouts. Eight months later Builder was released in [...]
New Time: State of iThemes Webinar + Team Retreat Recap
Last week, we took a break from our normal routine and “retreated.” It was a great time for our team to all be in one place (specifically, one continent), reflect on the past year, and look ahead for what’s on the horizon in 2012. Cory shared the vision for “Make Waves“—this year’s annual theme. And we can hardly wait for him to unveil it to the public next week during [...]
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