WordPress
My friend Andrea Middleton has an incredibly complex job leading a diverse organization of volunteer event organizers located around the globe in her role as Dot Organizer for the WordPress community. A job she does with grace, thoughtfulness and caring since 2011. The events are called WordCamps and there is typically 1-2 going on every…
The First-Things-First Disclosures: I fully believe in everything I’m saying here, or else I wouldn’t share it. My company, iThemes, is a partner of theirs (through our iThemes Sync Pro product). My wife, Lindsey Miller, is Liquid Web’s new partner manager, and I’m very good friends with Chris Lema, VP of Product, and A.J. Morris,…
So many times in my own freelancing web design experience, I’ve found that I’d get a website done for a client, only to wait for content. And wait. And wait. And wait. It’s a sad fact about most websites. They simply don’t have good content (or content at all) to properly market and sell their…
In the past I’ve been openly against “unlimited” and “lifetime” options, particularly in WordPress. (Don’t get me started on hosting.) You can check out my previous post on Sustainable Business Models in WordPress here for background. This week though, we launched BackupBuddy Gold … which grants customers lifetime updates to all current and future features of BackupBuddy,…
Reflecting on 10 years of having WordPress in the world (anniversary was yesterday), I just published a post titled The Future of WordPress and gave 6 keys and challenges for how this awesome software can stay relevant. Six keys to the future of WordPress: Blogging Mobile Identity Security Freedom You And here are 10 ideas…
It’s been well over a year since I had our chief designer, Ty Carlson, for our Creative Services team redesign my website … but recently asked him to put on a new coat of paint. Ty is one of the most talented web designers I’ve known, redesigning some of Oklahoma’s largest blog sites this year…
This week we launched BackupBuddy 3.1 and with it our new storage destination for your WordPress backups that we’re calling BackupBuddy Stash. We believe it’s absolutely vital to keep your site backups off site so if God forbid a crash happens your site is safe and secure and accessible to restore it. BackupBuddy Stash makes…
After over 3 years of having the same website design on iThemes.com, I’m super pumped to announce that we just flipped the switch on our new site design. It’s been months (and maybe years) in the making with a ton of work from our uber-talented team — and in particular Brad Ulrich and Ty Carlson.…
I’m super pumped to announce BackupBuddy 3.0 is out and into the wild! We believe it’s the MOST essential plugin you can have running on your WordPress site … because what good is it to write content, upload your photos and get your site all blinged out only to lose it all because of malware,…
It’s been a lifelong dream of mine to write a book and thanks to my friend Lisa Sabin-Wilson, I had the privilege of doing so by co-authoring WordPress All-in-One for Dummies (Wiley 2011), which debuted last month. Arguably one of the hardest projects I’ve ever taken on, I couldn’t have done so without the help…