WordPress News and Updates from iThemes

It’s a bittersweet moment for me as I announce, after 11 years, I’m leaving iThemes, on January 30, 2019. It’s been an amazing run and I’m looking forward to starting the next chapter of my professional life. But suffice to say, this decision was my choice, and I’m excited for the next chapter for iThemes […]

Here at iThemes, we’re taking GDPR compliance seriously. Have questions about the upcoming GDPR changes and how iThemes is ensuring compliance? We’re here to help. Please note: We cannot offer legal advice for your website. Please consult a lawyer for more information on your website’s GDPR compliance. What is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? […]

Today, I’m excited to announce that iThemes will be joining the Liquid Web family. Over the past two years, we’ve worked closely with the team at Liquid Web, as we partnered to offer iThemes Sync Pro to their Managed WordPress Hosting customers. In that time, I’ve had the opportunity to get to know their entire […]

UPDATE: We’ve shared new information about the REST API and iThemes Security here. *** The WordPress REST API is a feature rolled out in WordPress 4.4 and greatly expanded in WordPress 4.7. This latest update to WordPress introduces two primary concerns for iThemes Security users, so we’ve added a way to disable the WordPress REST […]

Good user security is absolutely essential for your WordPress site’s security. Unsecured user accounts, with poor passwords or inactivity, can quickly become big vulnerabilities to your sites. Poor security for just one user account can open up your entire building, or site, to vulnerabilities that lead to hacks. A couple weeks ago, we rolled out […]

One of the key ways hackers (or bots) use to hack your WordPress site is through your site’s WordPress User accounts. If you think about your site, for a second, like a physical building, whether your home or an office, every user is a door into that building. Poor security for just one user account […]

I’m writing this post with, you, our customer community in mind … those of you, entrepreneurs, who may be feeling the doom and gloom of recent external events or simply dealing with the ongoing struggles of running a business and living life. The fact is if you’re in business for any length of time, you’ll […]

I’ll just say it … sometimes it can outright suck riding the roller coaster of entrepreneurship. And in the past couple of months, I’ve personally had a couple of ups with some big downs and felt the effects of it. The biggest downs in business most always have to do with two things: people (clients, […]

In 2010, we rolled out a game-changing WordPress backup solution to help you protect your WordPress sites called BackupBuddy. BackupBuddy was built out of our own need and failure to do proper backups after two catastrophic server crashes. (Full disclosure: I completely lost blog posts and photos on my own site as part of one […]