2011 Year in Review at iThemes

2011 has been an incredible year for iThemes, our team and our customer community. As I sit here on New Year’s Eve and reflect on the past 365 days or so, looking down a long list of things we’ve done, I can’t help but feel a sense of pride for our team’s work and how far we’ve come. It’ll be four years next month that I started iThemes in my [...]

iThemes Builder Child Themes Now Available Individually

Have your eye on a few specific child themes for iThemes Builder but don’t really need the whole Developer Pack? Now you can get exactly what you need with individual child theme purchases. With almost 50 child themes to choose from, there’s something for every type of business, personal, or blog website. Every child theme comes with iThemes Builder Core, the parent theme required to operate the child theme, plus [...]

Builder 3.2: iThemes Builder Goes to the Gym

Presenting iThemes Builder 3.2. This release is available now in your member area. This release is a bit special, so I’d like to take a few minutes of your time to talk about it. As projects get older, they pick up more features, expand in scope, and like many of us humans, put on some extra pounds. With this release, I really wanted to make Builder a lean, mean, fighting [...]

Preparing for Builder 3.2 Release

The release of Builder 3.2 (details coming soon) is scheduled for tomorrow morning. This release has two big changes: both the Billboard and FeedBurner Widget features have been removed from Builder. If you are a fan of these features, fret not as they are still available. All active Builder members now have Billboard and FeedBurner Widget available as plugin downloads in your member area. You can find them listed below [...]

iThemes Named 7th Fastest-Growing Company in Oklahoma City

WebDesign.com/iThemes Media was named the 7th fastest-growing privately held company in Oklahoma City at the Metro 50 Awards Banquet last night. The Metro 50 awards are given to the top companies demonstrating positive growth in revenues, growth in the number of employees, creativity/entrepreneurship, and business development through the expansion of facilities, customer base or markets.  Companies are ranked based on their percentage of annual growth. In order to be considered, [...]

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iThemes Team Amplifies the Power of Builder with 7 New Child Themes in May!

In the month of May, the design and development teams at iThemes produced and released seven new child themes for iThemes Builder. That’s seven more themes – for free when you own Builder! Here are the 7 most recent child themes: Encased Light Drafted Cubed Rainey Day Scooter Covert Encased This also brings the total number of child themes that come with your Builder license to 35. And of course, [...]

Allure Themes – Premium WordPress Themes With a Feminine Touch

We are THRILLED to announce our joint venture with Allure Themes, a brand new WordPress theme boutique with professional themes specifically designed for women and businesses that serve women. Allure Themes is the first commercial theme company devoted to supporting the female market of WordPress users. And the feedback has been astounding! Quick Note: iThemes community members can receive 25% off Allure Themes packages through this Friday. Use coupon code: [...]

Automatically add content to your WordPress posts and pages

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 are several ways to add content to your post, without having to do so manually. [...]

iThemes Builder Import/Export Beta Test

Update: The beta has completed successfully with the release of Builder 2.8.0. Thank you to all that participated. I am very pleased to announce that we are now ready to start the beta test for the new Builder version that includes the import/export feature. A beta test is when a pre-release product is made available to users for further testing before the final release. We don’t do many releases like [...]