• Flash-Like Photo Slideshows in WordPress Themes

    Our awesome programmer Chris Jean has installed our new Featured Images script in some of our most popular themes … see the results on these demo sites: Essence, bSocial, iCompany, Titanium, and iTeam. This was a popular request among our customers, so we’re pleased to include this standard in these themes and future themes.

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  • New WordPress Custom Graphic Design Service

    Do you want a new header graphic for your blog or website? A new header graphic for your site is one of the most affordable ways to distinguish your site from other sites if you’re using a free or premium WordPress theme. This week, we’ve just rolled out a new graphic design service at iThemes.…

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  • WordCamp Chicago 2009

    WordPress celebrities Brian Gardner, Wendy Piersall, and Lisa Sabin-Wilson have generously allowed me to help with organizing WordCamp Chicago in spring 2009 … I can’t wait. I’ve been to Chicago twice to visit my bud Brian and look forward to seeing a great crowd for WC!

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  • Your Handy Guide to WordPress SEO

    Our developer Nathan Rice recently released a Guide to WordPress for SEO … and if you didn’t realize it, all our WordPress themes are optimized for the search engines

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  • Flash-Like Features in a WordPress Theme? Try Titanium

    If you check out the 20 theme series we have built at iThemes, you can easily see we have specialized in building WordPress themes specifically for businesses. Along the way, we’ve added some great features into our themes — like Theme Options pages which allow you to enter your stats code and enter your home…

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  • Using WordPress for Ecommerce: How We Do It

    When we at iThemes say we love and use WordPress, we really mean it … As you might expect, we use WordPress to power the entire iThemes site and to manage our ecommerce storefront (with the help of E-junkie, Paypal and Google Checkout). And WordPress has been more than capable of handling it all ……

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  • A Guide to The Ins and Outs of Premium WordPress Themes

    At iThemes, we’ve just announce our Premium WordPress Theme Guide, a resource for helping people make the best possible decision in choosing a commercial WordPress theme. Frankly, some good standards were lacking in what makes a premium WordPress theme so we thought we’d take a stab at it. I think it’s one of the most…

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  • WordPress Links Roundup

    Here are some links to things related to WordPress I thought were worthy of a link list post: 4 Interviews from Premium WordPress Theme Designers (includes me) WordPress founder Matt Mulllenweg makes the Top 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur’s List Matt also has an interesting interview at CMS Critic, oh, and I see he’s also The…

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  • On Building a Great Team

    Over the years, I’ve dreamed of having the opportunity to put together a rockin’ team of the best people in their respective areas … and, then, to be able to create an environment where they could thrive and be fulfilled in what they do. This week, we flew in our remote staff to Oklahoma City,…

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  • A New Social Magazine WordPress Theme

    We just released a new Social Magazine WordPress theme called bSocial

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