WordPress News and Updates from iThemes

We all want to find the PERFECT, IDEAL, BEST clients. The ones that are the easiest and best to work with, pay a premium, pay it upfront and fast and never gripe but only rave about your work to everyone.   In our WProsper surveys, “finding better or ideal clients” has been the biggest struggle […]

Through our WProsper focus, one thing we’ve heard over and over and over again is that you want to find better clients. They’re too cheap. They’re tough to work with. They have unrealistic expectations and demands. They undervalue or devalue your work. And at the core, you want to find clients who HIGHLY VALUE what […]

After launching our WProsper customer focus this year, it’s become glaringly obvious that we need a place to foster engagement, community and for me to be able to say, “Hey, how it’s going? What’s working? What’s not?” As much as I love the blog and comments, it’s just not the right tool for really getting good interaction. […]

Recurring revenue can take a number of shapes and forms …. from membership sites, retainer coaching packages to WordPress maintenance plans. But the idea is simple: Have clients and customers that pay you consistently (i.e. every month) for your products and services. FOCUSING ON RECURRING REVENUE IS JUST SMART Here are just two compelling reasons to […]

I’m a self-confessed book junkie. I have to be reading something or else I feel like I’m withering and dying. The most recent book that has now made my Ultimate Book Reading List is The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry by John Warrillow. It’s a foundational, desktop reference for anyone wanting to learn […]

If you’d have told me 10 years ago that in 2015 I would be leading my company (let alone any organization or group) to have a year-long focus on PROSPERITY, I would have told you that aliens must have abducted me and replaced me with a robot clone. For most of my life I haven’t […]

Last month, iThemes turned 7 years old. Since 2008, every January, I’m reminded of how grateful I am to you, our customer community, for allowing us to keep doing what we do for you. We believe and act that EVERY day, you are the center of our interest and activity and thoughts and work…because without […]

With the release of the new, totally revamped version of iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) we also release the iThemes Security Pro. So I thought I’d share four reasons why you should upgrade or buy iThemes Security Pro: 1. Add even more layers of support We’re fast at work on the next Pro features […]

The long anticipated day is here. Today, we officially introduce two new WordPress security plugins to lock down and secure your WordPress sites: iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) and iThemes Security Pro. How did we get here? Four years ago, we walked into WordPress security without really fully realizing it — through our home run […]