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How to Import Your Tumblr Posts Into Your WordPress Blog

By: Elise Alley

June 12th, 2013

With Yahoo!’s recent purchase of Tumblr, a lot of people are jumping ship. However, if you’ve been very active on Tumblr, you don’t want to lose all your posts, right? There’s no need to worry! WordPress makes it quick and easy to import your Tumblr posts into your blog! To get started, you’ll go to [...]

By: Kristen Wright

May 1st, 2013

A few weeks ago, Chris Jean posted this in-depth blog post covering the recent WordPress security attacks. In his post, Chis outlined several ways to protect your site, so we created these 5 new tutorial videos covering everything from how to manually install WordPress to how to update your wp-config.php keys — all ways to [...]

By: Cory Miller

April 24th, 2013

In light of the recent brute force attacks on WordPress sites (and the response to Chris Jean’s post on the subject), I asked Tony Perez, COO of Sucuri Security to do a free community webinar May 1 to share tips and insights on how to protect your WordPress sites against these attacks. Online security is not [...]

By: Chris Jean

April 15th, 2013

There is a very real, very large ongoing attack against WordPress sites. It has been going on for a while now, but it severely escalated last week. While there is a lot of chatter about this situation around the web, I thought I should write this post for two reasons: 1) not everyone in our [...]

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: Kristen Wright

February 21st, 2013

This webinar, hosted by Dre Armeda (CEO & Founder of Sucuri Inc.), covers how anyone can hack your WordPress site in less than 5 minutes (which he actually demos live) … and what you can actually do to prevent it. Topics Covered Knowing your enemy WordPress-loving Infections Access control Tips for preventing and dealing with [...]

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: Kristen Wright

September 12th, 2012

At some point, you’re probably going to need a résumé website. But where do you start? To make it easy, here’s a guide to creating an awesome (and easy) WordPress résumé site using iThemes Builder and our latest Builder child theme, Résumé. Tools or “Supplies” Needed Your résumé (a paper version will do) Your own domain name Hosting WordPress [...]

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: Kevin D. Hendricks

August 31st, 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. We’ve detailed several of those reasons in our Why WordPress series: Easy to Use Did Somebody Say Free? Ownership Powerful Flexible with Themes & Plugins Easy to Install Features Trust Do It [...]