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Due Next Week: New Child Theme Arrival

April 27, 2012

Update 05/03/2012: Builder child theme Arrival and Arrival Blue have been released! Make sure to check out each of the demo sites for Arrival – in pink and blue. We’re expecting our first “iThemes baby” this summer (congrats Cody and Callie!), so it was only fitting to add a “baby announcement” child theme to celebrate. Here’s a sneak peek of next week’s the Builder child theme Arrival – in pink and blue: [...]

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Our First Builder Child Theme for BuddyPress: Yukon

March 14, 2012

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 [...]

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Just Released: Market, an eCommerce Child Theme for Builder

February 2, 2012

Introducing Market, the latest eCommerce child theme for iThemes Builder. With simple lines, cool colors, and bold contrast styling for widget areas, Market is the perfect store-front for your WordPress eCommerce site: Like Depot (another eCommerce Builder child theme), Market features integration with three different WordPress eCommerce plugins: Shopp, Cart66 and WP-Ecommerce. Simply visit the Market demo home page to select your preferred plugin to view the specific Market styling for each. Check out Market’s [...]

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Introducing Kepler Light

January 26, 2012

Introducing the latest Builder child theme: Kepler Light, the “lighter” version of the original Kepler. Kepler Light features the same great photography-focused styling, great for showcasing your creative work: Kepler Light includes several specific post styles to focus on featured images, all with a unique custom date stamp to add interest to your blog: To see all of Kepler Light’s portfolio-related features, check out this free Kepler overview webinar from WebDesign.com. [...]

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Just Released: Adept, a Child Theme for Builder

January 13, 2012

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 [...]

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Get Ready to Travel with Traverse

October 26, 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 easily customize the layout of your site. Enjoy multiple page layouts and views, all thanks [...]

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Upcoming iThemes Builder Child Themes

August 30, 2011

Here at iThemes, we’re always busy creating Builder Child Theme designs for our community. We wanted to share a few designs that are in the queue. There are always changes before we are ready for release, so the final versions may not (probably won’t) turn out exactly as the preview, but here they are for your early sneak peek. Be sure to check out the post about the new iThemes [...]

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Rainey Day – Child Theme #32 for iThemes Builder is Here

May 17, 2011

Rainey Day, the 32nd child theme for iThemes Builder is now live and ready for use. Rainey Day is a light and subtle, yet dramatic theme designed by Brad Ulrich; and is named in honor of Cory Miller’s niece Rainey who turned 6 the day the theme was announced. Check out the demo. If you’ve ever attended the live iThemes.tv shows on Tuesdays at 11am Central Time, you’ve heard Cory [...]

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Scooter – a Retro Style Child Theme for iThemes Builder

Scooter is the latest iThemes Builder child theme to be released – bringing the total count of available child themes to 31! (The 32nd theme – Rainey Day – is slated to be released later today.) Scooter is the 3rd theme released by designer Justin Kopepasah since joining iThemes less than 2 months ago. You can also check out Justin’s first two themes: Encased and Lucky 7. Some noteworthy features [...]

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More Flex in Flexx, configurable (Landing) Pages

November 24, 2010

Inspired by the number of support requests for a Landing Page in Flexx, aka Squeeze or Sales Page, I decided to revisit the tutorial I wrote, and create a fully configurable landing page for Flexx by harnessing the power of Child themes. By using a Child theme, no modification to the core Flexx code is required, so that updates to the parent theme will not result in loss of functionality. [...]

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