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The Future of WordPress: 6 Keys

By: Cory Miller

May 28th, 2013

As you know, WordPress turned 10 years old yesterday. It’s an exciting time, but increasingly I’m also thinking more and more about the future of WordPress. After all, we’ve built an entire business and, with it, all of our futures, on this awesome web publishing platform. Thus, we have a vested interest in making sure it continues to proliferate [...]

By: Kristen Wright

February 26th, 2013

Today we’re proud to announce the launch of the new iThemes Tutorials hub with 63 new WordPress video tutorials. Ranging from WordPress 101 (a total beginner’s introduction to WordPress) to advanced WordPress web developer training, to BackupBuddy and Builder basics and even a whole series on Builder CSS, we’ve created these WordPress tutorials as a free resource for [...]

By: Cory Miller

January 26th, 2013

Last year I read a great book entitled “Who Do You Want Your Customers To Become?” It was a super short but invaluable read as we celebrate five years of business at iThemes. It helped me think about you, our amazing customer community, more broadly than just products we offer you, but where we’d like [...]

By: Kristen Wright

October 31st, 2012

BackupBuddy v3.1 includes support for BackupBuddy Stash, our secure off-site storage destination for your BackupBuddy backups. Storing your BackupBuddy backups off-site means you always have an insurance plan if your site goes down, so all BackupBuddy purchases come preloaded with with 256MB of free BackupBuddy Stash storage space. From our experience, this is usually enough for one complete BackupBuddy [...]

By: Justin Kopepasah

October 24th, 2012

As the usage of mobile devices grows, the need for a site that works with desktop and mobile browsers is something most people cannot avoid. Thankfully, with today’s modern browsers, designing for mobile devices is not as difficult as it once was.

By: Kristen Wright

October 24th, 2012

Once you get WordPress installed, it can be easy to overlook your WordPress Settings. They can seem boring compared to adding themes or plugins and making tweaks to your new site, but they can definitely make a big difference in saving you time (and even some headaches) in the longrun. Before you move forward with a [...]

By: Chris Jean

October 18th, 2012

Last week, I teased everyone with the upcoming responsive features of iThemes Builder 4.0. Today, I’m proud to announce that Builder 4.0 is available. Builder is now responsive. This post will be another Q&A style post to help you know exactly what this release means for you and how you can make use of these [...]

By: Kevin D. Hendricks

September 4th, 2012

Why should you use WordPress? Because it’s awesome. There are a ton of reasons why WordPress is a quality platform for building websites. Here’s the first entry in our Why WordPress series: First and foremost, WordPress is easy. Your mom could do it. It’s a straightforward platform for your website that makes everything simple. You [...]

By: Kristen Wright

August 21st, 2012

Check it out. Our Getting Started with BackupBuddy handbook has just been completely updated to reflect all of the new features and UI enhancements in BackupBuddy 3.0. With a brand new eBook layout and helpful sections including “The First Four Critical Steps After Installing BackupBuddy,” this eBook presents a basic walk-through of using BackupBuddy for the [...]

By: Kristen Wright

July 20th, 2012

We’re excited to finally share a preview of the iThemes.com redesign. We’ve been working on the redesign for months (and dreaming about it for years), and we hope you’ll be just as excited to see the new site as we are to get it launched. We plan to post more screenshots of the redesign over the [...]