iThemes Show – March 09

What’s new at iThemes this week:

BackupBuddy Launch News
Server Buddy – from Plugin Buddy!
Builder Child Theme “Default”
Best Practices
Builder Bootcamp April 23-24
SXSW Trip and Blog
and finally…Amazon Kindle Winner Announcement!!

iThemesTV for March 2, 2010

New this week at iThemes:

Plugin Buddy – Launch News!
Style Manager Update
All Theme update – child themes
Tips of the week
Featured site of the week
Child Theme Contest – what’s next?
Nashville Recap

Watch now!
Join us live for the chat next time! Every Tuesday on www.ithemes.tv at 11:00am CST

iThemes Live On the Road – Nashville

Just cause they were traveling doesn’t mean they forgot about the viewers at home.
Cory and Matt live stream from their hotel in Nashville, TN to share the experience they had meeting up with some iThemes customers and why they’re in Nashville in the first place!

iThemes Bootcamp – Day 1

From 9:00am to almost 5:30pm, WordPress and iThemes users sat in a conference room talking, learning and sharing ideas.
Here’s a quick video from the first day of our theme Bootcamp in Dallas, TX.

iThemes and Child Themes – introduction

Child themes, an introduction
In WordPress 2.7, Child themes have been introduced in WordPress. Using Child themes, you can modify (override) all aspects of a Parent theme (e.g. the stylesheet, page templates, functions) without risking loosing all your modifications when upgrading the parent theme.
In the following chapters a short theoretical introduction, that you may wish to [...]

Upgrading WordPress on Multiple Sites, Good Practice

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 while, [...]

New Free Tutorials for WordPress 2.7 Up

In our free WordPress tutorials section, we’ve just posted new (and free) video tutorials on how to use WordPress 2.7 …
Here’s what we have so far … with more to come!

WordPress 2.7 – Overview
How to login to WP Dashboard
How to write a Post
How to write a Page
Using the Media Library
How to use the Links feature
How [...]

How to Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 Easily

There are some great new features included in the new version of WordPress 2.7, including an awesome new Dashboard. We’re working on new WordPress tutorials in general, so stay tuned, but for now, here’s an easy way to upgrade to WordPress 2.7:

Check out our free WordPress tutorials here

Google Analytics for WordPress: Easily Installing Statistics Tracking

Google Analytics is a free online service for tracking your website statistics. It’s one of my favorites that I use on every website or blog I build.
Your site’s traffic is important if you are using it as a marketing tool for your business. You should be tracking how many unique visitors and pageviews you get [...]

Free Unbranded WordPress Tutorials with iThemes Developer’s Pack

As part of our iThemes Developer’s Pack, we’ve just added a special bonus — unbranded WordPress video tutorials.
These WordPress tutorial screencasts are designed to help you train your clients in how to use WordPress … without having to do it yourself!
Here’s how they could help you …. you download the tutorials with your purchase, then [...]