http://blog.ithemes.com Official Blog of iThemes Media Tue, 06 May 2008 14:14:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just saw this post on Using WordPress to Build Websites and Not Just Blogs by Tom Johnson, one of our customers, who purchased our Essence Theme Series. I'm excited to see our customers finding our themes solutions to their problems -- creating great looking websites with WordPress. We have designed our themes ... http://blog.ithemes.com/using-ithemes-to-create-client-websites/ I've had a fan page on Facebook for quite some time ... but just realized that I haven't done a good job telling people about it. Join us on Facebook .... and also here's my personal profile. If you're adding me as a friend, please note that you know me from ... http://blog.ithemes.com/join-ithemes-on-facebook/ iThemes and 1800blogger have partnered to release 8 brand-new free WordPress themes to the WP community. These themes are widget-ready, search engine optimized and ready for download now! [DOWNLOAD ALL 8 FREE WORDPRESS THEMES HERE] The 8 themes included are: Finance Theme Freedom Theme Healthcare Theme Personal Theme Political Orange Theme Political Blue Theme Social Theme Sports Theme [DOWNLOAD ALL 8 ... http://blog.ithemes.com/ithemes-new-free-wordpress-themes-8-pack/ This is a guest post by Ryan Imel of Theme Playground. WordPress 2.5 brings with it a very impressive and inspiring new visual administrative interface. While the overall upgrade is very noticeable, it may be the case that some have overlooked a few of the changes that lend for a better ... http://blog.ithemes.com/the-5-best-upgrades-to-wordpress-25/ In case you haven't subscribed to the New Themes Feed or our email newsletter, we just released Ecommerce Theme, a web theme designed to help you create and manage an online store to sell your products. You can get more details in the announcement post, but we've also created a new ... http://blog.ithemes.com/an-ecommerce-template-for-your-online-store/ We get asked this question a lot: How do I add rotating photos to my WordPress theme? So I decided to do a quick video tutorial walking you through Chris Pearson's simple random images tutorial. Click here to view the How to Add Rotating Photos Video Tutorial, or the image below: Also, you ... http://blog.ithemes.com/adding-rotating-photos-to-your-theme/ I've collected my 7 best tips for optimizing WordPress based on over a year and half of using WordPress and building dozens of sites for clients .... and put them all in a series of free video tutorials. If you'd like to see each video individually, click on the titles below: Change ... http://blog.ithemes.com/how-to-optimize-wordpress-in-7-steps/ We've just added two new sections to our Support Forums called WordPress Plugins and WordPress Tips, where we'll start posting more of these type tips and hope you'll do the same for others. If you've never upgraded your version of WordPress, it can be a tad scary the first time .... ... http://blog.ithemes.com/how-to-upgrade-wordpress-easily/ There will be a number of people associated with iThemes at the Dallas WordCamp this weekend. If you're going, we'd love to know so we can meet you in person. As far as I know it's not too late to register (just $20 a person, so it's a bargain). My wife ... http://blog.ithemes.com/ithemes-at-dallas-wordcamp-2008/ We're sponsoring a contest by Ian Stewart of Theme Shaper to design the next default WordPress theme. Ian's idea is a great one .... try to encourage people to design the next WordPress theme that is installed with WordPress (there are two by default). Although, as Ian says, the themes are great ... http://blog.ithemes.com/our-first-premium-theme-giveaway-content/