Dear iThemes Community, I just wanted to take a second to briefly share some news and events with you this month ….
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For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been doing a live video stream for our customer community. This is our chance to share product news [...]

Web development can be tricky and time-consuming. To be more effective and productive, we, designers and developers, can integrate useful tools in our daily routine. Also, handy resources can be very valuable as they can help us enhance communication with clients and other developers as well as improve the quality of our work. We are [...]

It’s been a stressful day. You’ve come home from work (or school) and it is now time for you to blog. There are many people who do this every day, and it is a ritual that can’t really be avoided. Those who have been able to make blogging a full-time career are considered to be [...]

Leaving comments on other blogs is extremely important for all bloggers. If you don’t, the only way others will find you is through search engines and other blogs that may link to you. By providing your thoughts on other blogs, you are sharing in the conversation and letting others know what you think.

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Digital Farm – which was designed in-house by Mark – is the second “recycled” design that we’re releasing here, after my previous blog design (now Rockstar) made it into our themes collection. But where Rockstar was nothing more than a pretty cool free theme; Digital Farm should impress the hell out of you with a [...]

Using web forms on your website or even blog is critical to being able to use it as a sales tool for your business. Without fail, every site we launch typically has at least one form — a contact form. But with our business, we use forms to better understand what our customers want. So [...]

Our Business Themes collection is still one of our most popular ranges on WooThemes and to an extent this popularity was sparked by the release of the grand-daddy – VibrantCMS – back in July last year.
So in a recent little internal study to decide which type of themes we should be working on, we decided [...]

Web optimization is a vital part of web development and maintenance but also something often overlooked by webmasters. Just think of the money you can save, and how it can potentially help increase your readership and traffic when they are properly done.

If you have not done any optimization to your website (or blog) so [...]

Hooks are very useful in WordPress. They allow you to “hook” a custom function to an existing function, which allows you to modify WordPress’ functionality without editing core files. In this article, we have compiled 10 extremely useful ready-to-use WordPress hooks, along [...]

Tomorrow I’m sharing the opening keynote for the 2009 Annual Scholars Academy, hosted by the Educational Service Center of Cuyahoga County in Aurora, Ohio, for area school administrators. The presentation will be a remix of my opening keynote for eTechOhio 2009: “Reinventing Education for the 21st Century: Designing School 2.0.” In the introduction, to try [...]