Looks like one of the Open Source Institute’s own has recently taken it upon himself to do a little rogue pen-testing.  He managed to grab the unsalted password hashes and brute force himself a couple of passwords.  He logged into a couple of accounts, and alerted the admins to a weakness.  The site admins are [...]

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!!

Back in November, we had some serious server issues at iThemes. Through that experience we saw the great and pressing need to offer a solid and fully supported backup AND restore option for WordPress to our customer community.
Although you can easily export your content out of WordPress (and there are other WP backup solutions), it’s [...]

Upon first thinking about it, the idea of selling advertising on a website or blog with limited traffic seems a bit daft. After all, aren’t most advertisers interested in putting their product in front of the highest number of eyeballs possible? Approaching them with piddly visitor numbers seems like a surefire way to [...]

While I have taken a break, I haven’t been inactive in reading lots of great posts from the community. This week, I share some of my favorite posts from the past week, including some that you may have missed.
I suggest you check them out or share your own posts in the comments area – all [...]

Consider the chief executive’s perspective. When a CEO looks at the company, several features stand out most sharply. These are the traditional components of corporate structure: divisions, functional departments, strategic business units, and subsidiaries. They are the activities over which the chief executive has responsibility. They form the mental model the top leadership has of [...]

eShop would have been our first e-commerce theme instead of Store. But we wished to introduce elegance first. We received many feedbacks, suggestions and improvements request on our e-commerce theme and had to postpone the release of this eShop theme. We worked really hard past these days with our beta testers and improved our e-commerce [...]

Believe it or not, there were actually some really great free themes released in 2009. You might not know it because a lot of theme roundup posts these days are riddled with affiliate links to paid themes.
This post will list some of the most creative themes I’ve seen produced in 2009. Note that [...]

When it comes to building relationships with others, there is no better place to do this than the Internet. While there is a good chance that you’ll be able to build up quite a following without using the Internet, how much success could you have sending out flyers and leaving messages for people to continue [...]

Christmas day is just coming and every one is getting prepared for himself to celebrate this holidays with much more enjoyments. Designers are also excited in this Christmas as well to come up with exclusive designs specially for Christmas. Sometimes, general users also love to use or change their wallpapers on the desktop as per [...]