Build an iPhone WordPress Site Easily

May 9, 2010

PluginBuddy Mobile is a professional WordPress plugin that allows you to easily build an iPhone version of your site in minutes using the built-in style manager, mobile-ready themes and custom header uploader.

Get more details on the PluginBuddy Mobile purchase page here

Here are the primary features and benefits:

Mobile Theme Style Manager – You want your mobile theme to look like your website, not someone else’s. We have built-in a style manager so you can easily tweak the look of the theme to match your normal website.
Custom Header Uploader — You can easily upload your own custom header to your mobile theme with the built-in uploader. This is a key feature that will allow you to personalize your site with your own unique mobile version header graphic.
Mobile Support for Multiple Platforms — While we have put a lot of emphasis on iPhone specific development, we are also supporting many other platforms, allowing you to assign different themes to different platforms. (See below for complete list
Mobile Starter Themes — We have included 3 themes for you to choose from and customize. Maybe you even want to use one of our mobile themes just like they are. And we also plan to add themes to the mobile plugin in the near future.

Multiple Mobile Platform Support
WordPress and PluginBuddy Mobile recognize when people view your site from this devices and show them whatever theme you assign to it. Here are the devices supported:

Apple iPhone
Apple iPad
Android Device
Palm Device
BlackBerry Device
Windows CE Device, Mobile IE
Sony Playstation Portable
Sony Playstation 3
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo DS

Get more details on the PluginBuddy Mobile purchase page here

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Test Your WordPress Security Settings with ServerBuddy

April 13, 2010

With the recent security snafu at NetworkSolutions regarding file permissions, it’s vital to make sure your WP install and hosting is top par.

Over at PluginBuddy, we just released a free WordPress plugin called ServerBuddy that is designed to help you test the quality of your hosting, how secure your WordPress installation is, and test compatibility with popular plugins like BackupBuddy and Gravity Forms.

Through the launch of our BackupBuddy plugin, we realized just how bad some hosting is. So we built this plugin out of the need to help the larger WordPress ecosystem get better, more secure hosting.

Download ServerBuddy Here

P.S. — Check out the new SEO options in iThemes Builder that we’ve released in BETA today … it’s loaded with great features … and we’ve included a ton of explainer text so you know exactly what does what.

P.S.S — If you’re looking to take your WordPress skills to the next level, check out our live WordPress Developers course starting this Saturday, April 17 …. sign up for our WebDesign.com annual membership and get access to the course, plus all the courses in our library, along with any new ones we release in your membership year.

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Free WordPress Blue Business Theme Released

July 27, 2009

WebDesign.com has released a free WordPress theme called Biz Tech. It’s a 2 column blue blog theme with multi-level dropdown menus, 4 widget-ready sidebar areas and more.

Check it out here

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Free Blue WordPress Blogging Theme Released

April 1, 2009

Over at Happy Joe, our newest venture that is still in private beta, we just released our first free WordPress theme titled Blue Blogger. It’s a three column, widget-ready, blog theme.

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Get a WordPress Theme for Christmas! 25% Discount

December 24, 2008

At iThemes, like you, we have plenty to be thankful for …

It’s been almost a year since we opened our doors to provide professional, easy-to-use WordPress themes.

In that time, we’ve gone from a one-man operation (me) to a five-person team, produced well over 30 premium themes, with over a dozen more free ones.

One of our crowning achievements is the FlexxTheme, our mega blog template that has over 1,000 possible layout combinations, plug and play graphics, built-in ad manager, and much more. It now has 15 versions to choose from.

It’s been a great year indeed! We hope yours has been good as well!

So here’s our Christmas present … a 25% coupon code … you can use it on any theme, including for our Theme Combo packages …

To redeem, simply click on the theme(s) Add to Cart button … then enter “CHRIST08″ in the coupon field, then “Update” your cart to see your savings.

Once again, thank you for being a part of iThemes and Merry Christmas to you and yours!

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FlexxTheme Sports Fan Blogging Theme

December 20, 2008

iThemes just released our new FlexxTheme Sports Fan, a WordPress blog theme to help you root for your favorite sports team.

Get purchase information here

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FlexxCamo: Green WordPress Blog Theme

December 20, 2008

iThemes just released our new FlexxTheme Camo, a military theme.

Get purchase information here

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iThemes Launches New Movable Type Theme Store

December 16, 2008

iThemes has officially launched our Movable Type Theme Store.

The first theme we’ve got built for Movable Type is our Blogging Success theme, a two-column blog theme, with 5 pre-built color styles.

We’re also offering a free Movable Type theme called Business Blogger. And soon, our popular Essence theme will be available in MT. (We’re taking pre-orders for that as well.)

The move will likely involves some bumps in the road, but we’re just excited to be able to offer high-quality, professionally designed themes for Movable Type users.

Go check out the Movable Type Theme Store here.

As always, we’re eager to hear feedback from you - specifically, what kinds, types, shapes, colors of themes are you looking for in Movable Type? … click here to take our Movable Type Theme Survey.

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A WordPress Blog Theme for Professionals

December 6, 2008

Over at iThemes, we just released a new version of our FlexxTheme, the mega blog theme we launched last month, called FlexxTheme Professional!

We amped it up with …

new rich and bold colors (green and blue) for the widget headers and navigational menu,
increased the header height, and
injected some cool illustrations

FlexxTheme Professional is a great blogging theme for CEOs, small business owners, real estate agents, media consultants, web designers or graphic artists, and anyone else who wants to start a professional looking blog.

It keeps all the awesome features of the original FlexxTheme too!

So check out the demo or go ahead and purchase the SINGLE-USE version for $79.95 or just get the whole FlexxTheme Series Multi-Use Package for a little more.

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2 New Photo Gallery WP Themes with Fading Photos

November 4, 2008

Shutter Themes has just released new photo WordPress theme we’re calling FlashFrame.

It’s built with a neat home page fading images option that’s now incorporated into most of our WP themes … where you upload images from the WP Dashboard (no FTP required) and can set the transitions from the theme’s settings page.