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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: Ronald van Weerd

March 20th, 2011

On many sites these days, you will find a standard text at the bottom of all WordPress posts. This is a great place to remind your readers about something you want them to do, a special promotion you are running, etc. For example, on all the iThemes posts, we have an email subscription box. There [...]

By: Nina East (Nina!)

March 3rd, 2011

Have you ever wondered how to get rid of the “Comments are closed” statement that appears at the end of your content? This is one of those pesky features that drive some WordPress site owners crazy. There’s actually a super-simple solution. All you have to do is add the following to the END of your [...]

By: Matt Danner

February 16th, 2010

Most people are familiar with the tag “the_content” as it is one of the fundamental tags in WordPress. It is what goes and grabs the content (go figure). While the_content is an invaluable template tag, I think that there is some real value to the_excerpt that people should know about. So, what is the_excerpt? Thorough [...]

By: Ronald van Weerd

September 7th, 2009

With the recent scare regarding a serious security vulnerability in pre-WP 2.8.4 , and the response from WordPress I found myself facing upgrading multiple sites that I own, or sites that I manage for others. In some cases, this was not an upgrade from 2.8.2 to 2.8.4 since I had neglected some sites for a [...]

By: Chris Jean

June 15th, 2009

Hello again everyone. This is Chris Jean, iThemes’ very own Code Monkey. Today, I’m going to do my best to help you prepare for and plan WordPress upgrades. When should a person upgrade their WordPress blog? Frankly, this is not an easy question to answer. The answer is completely dependent upon what type of site [...]

By: Cory Miller

February 26th, 2009

Over the last year, we’ve set out to build the best, most easy-to-use WordPress themes on the planet. And with each theme we think through and include easy ways for you to customize your theme — tools that allow you to make it uniquely your own. So that after you’ve done some of these quick [...]

By: Cory Miller

January 14th, 2009

This is a guest post from one of our outstanding support forum moderators Ben Kemp. This was originally written in response to a question on our forum, but we felt it justified more exposure. As a general rule, from an SEO perspective, bear in mind the most fundamental issue. Google loathes duplicate content! Google is [...]

By: Cory Miller

July 15th, 2008

By Jesse Petersen One of the things that makes blogs and sites created on blog platforms so powerful is the ability to get your content and products indexed by search engines very quickly, and often highly ranking. Few things will help your business or site more than getting repeat traffic from people using search engines to [...]

By: Cory Miller

April 3rd, 2008

We’ve just added two new sections to our Support Forums called WordPress Plugins and WordPress Tips, where we’ll start posting more of these type tips and hope you’ll do the same for others. If you’ve never upgraded your version of WordPress, it can be a tad scary the first time …. but with the new [...]