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Why You Need a WordPress Backup

Posted by on March 9, 2011 with 0 Comments

Some of you already know the story. Others may not. Here is the real story of how BackupBuddy came to be. Via WordCamp Seattle Lightning Talk. -matt

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Creating Alternate Module Styles in iThemes Builder

Posted by on December 1, 2010 with 3 Comments

Recently, iThemes Builder received an update that included support for alternate module styles. Basically, this means that any of Builder’s modules can be styled multiple ways, and you can choose which style you want on a module-to-module basis. If you want to see this in action, check out our latest child theme, Americana. It features [...]

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Free WordPress Theme Available – Quick-Vid

Posted by on September 2, 2010 with 0 Comments

I’ve been working with Brad to get a free WordPress theme our for a while. We thought this would be a good way for iThemes to give something back to the WordPress community (along with our free plugins, core contributions, and codex additions). I must say, the process of adding a theme to WordPress Extend [...]

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Latest Tweet Plugin Now on WP Extend

Posted by on June 22, 2010 with 3 Comments

In an earlier post I showed how to get your latest tweet on your site without a plugin. It has been an extremely popular post, but for some folks. it was just over their head. I have had quite a few people email me asking to make a simple plugin to accomplish the same task, [...]

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Upgrading to WordPress 3.0

Posted by on June 18, 2010 with 0 Comments

Yesterday’s release of WordPress version 3.0 came with a ton of great new features. As a developer, I am really excited about some of the new capabilities. There is no doubt that a lot is changing. In fact, one of the first things you will notice after you update is that even the dashboard is [...]

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Latest Tweet without a Plugin

Posted by on January 7, 2010 with 15 Comments

I earlier this week, one of our clients wanted a better solution to getting his latest tweet from Twitter than simply using an RSS widget it WordPress to grab the feed. We could have simply used a plugin, but this site is HUGE, and we didn’t want to depend on Joe Pluginmaker to keep his [...]

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