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Making Use of the Projects Feature in Covell

By: Kristen Wright

April 24th, 2012

One of the most popular portfolio Builder child themes (and one of my personal favorites) is Covell, which has several content-specific features, including the Projects Custom Post Type. Covell’s Projects are great for showing off content images (like portfolio items), since the Projects page has been designed to only show featured images from Projects posts (like this): [...]

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: Kristen Wright

December 22nd, 2011

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 [...]

By: Kristen Wright

December 15th, 2011

Expansion, the latest child theme for iThemes Builder, just added two new stand-alone theme color variations: Expansion Red and Expansion Blue. Both themes boast the same high-contrast design of the original Expansion–but now with blue and red details such as: custom blog date stamps that auto-adjust to your Builder layout: three different widget styles (dark [...]

By: Cory Miller

December 14th, 2011

I’m super excited to share two personal sites that have recently been redesigned with iThemes Builder by Ty Carlson from iThemes Creative Services. These two sites have needed an overhaul from my previously lame (self-designed) sites and I also wanted to have personal showcase sites for the cool things Builder can do. (We drink our [...]

By: Nina East (Nina!)

November 8th, 2011

Patterned is the 51st child theme for iThemes Builder. This is a simple theme with a handcrafted look and feel – perfect for any special project or site. You’ll love the Google Web Font (Rancho) that gives titles a special flair and draws people in to your site. From the stay-at-home blogging mom to the [...]

By: Kristen Wright

November 2nd, 2011

I’ll admit it. I’m a total DIY’er. I’ve been known to cut my own hair, sew my own clothes, and bake my own bread. Sometimes it turns out perfectly, and sometimes it doesn’t (my most recent DIY-project meant an immediate appointment at the dog groomers). But I’m a strong believer that with enough guidance, instructions, [...]

By: Kristen Wright

October 26th, 2011

Introducing Traverse, the latest child theme for iThemes Builder. Traverse features a high contrast design and bold styling intended to showcase content for travel blogs. Stories and photos from your adventures will be framed perfectly by Traverse. As with all child themes for iThemes Builder, Traverse comes with a powerful layout editor allowing you to [...]