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Free eBook: Getting Started with Builder

By: Kristen Wright

April 16th, 2012

We’ve been busy adding new resources to our iThemes eBook library (now 10 eBooks and counting!) and one of our latest additions is Getting Started with Builder, a handbook for Builder beginners. This guide presents an introduction to basic Builder concepts and terms, as well as a beginner’s overview on using Builder for the first time. We’ll [...]

By: Justin Kopepasah

March 14th, 2012

Adding items to WordPress menus is easy with the wp_nav_menu_items filter, and with the unlimited amount of menus you can create with Builder, there is not doubt that menus can easily carry more than just the standard items. This tutorial will walk you through how to add new items (search field, social links, an image [...]

By: Kristen Wright

February 22nd, 2012

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 [...]

By: Nina East (Nina!)

August 10th, 2011

Last week we released iThemes Builder 3.1.1. Included in this latest update is a super-easy-to-use favicon uploader. Favicons are the small image that appears next to your url when someone visits your site. Notice the tiny iThemes logo next to the url on this post. Using a favicon is a subtle, yet powerful, part of [...]

By: Nina East (Nina!)

March 29th, 2011

BIG THANKS to our community who participated in the survey about providing great tips and tricks on iThemes & PluginBuddy tools. It was interesting how much consistency there was in what people wanted, and how they want to receive it. Please note – this is not a WordPress tips newsletter as much as it is [...]

By: Sridhar Katakam

March 15th, 2011

By default all modules in Builder are only as wide as the container they are in. This width is defined when creating/editing a layout in Builder’s Layout Manager. But did you know that it is possible to make any, some or all modules full width? i.e, have them 100% wide stretching from left edge of [...]

By: Sridhar Katakam

March 15th, 2011

In our recently released child theme of Builder, Classen, post meta info showing posting date, author, gravatar, categories and comments appear to the left of content. If you would like to instead show the meta info regularly like in the below screenshot, follow the wiki article here.

By: Sridhar Katakam

March 14th, 2011

While Image Module in Builder is great for displaying header images, there are situations where using a HTML module makes more sense. Let’s say you would like to display some piece of text like your company address/contact info at the far right of header image, just edit the layout, add a HTML module with a [...]

By: Nina East (Nina!)

January 6th, 2011

If you are one of the many happy people who just purchased the Builder Core unlimited license – or even if you’ve been in the Builder community for awhile – there are two MUST-SEE webinars coming up. Both are free to attend. (recordings will be made available to WebDesign.com members.) The first is TONIGHT – [...]

By: Sridhar Katakam

December 27th, 2010

In a typical website, we usually have different layouts for home page and for display of other views like post, page, category etc. Let’s say there are two layouts (which we primarily use) in our iThemes Builder site: Home, Default and that a view has been added to associate the Home layout with Home view [...]