Looking to understand WordPress PHP? In this post, we’ ll unpack what PHP is and how it works with WordPress. Understanding PHP and how it integrates with WordPress will help with site maintenance, troubleshooting errors and WordPress development in general. What is PHP? PHP, an abbreviation for Hypertext Preprocessor, …
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WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: January 2020, Part 1
New WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities were disclosed during the first half of January, so we want to keep you aware. In this post, we cover recent WordPress plugin, theme and core vulnerabilities and what to do if you are running one of the vulnerable plugins or themes…
New! iThemes Hosting Now with Multiple Site Plans
Over the last few months, we’ ve been working on a number of little projects to help get your 2020 off to a great start! We’ ve already told you about how we released new iThemes Training membership plans for those who want WordPress and business training to grow your…
New! iThemes Security now includes Security Check Pro and CCPA changes in Pro
Not every site is the same; that is why we have always been hesitant to take a blanket approach to WordPress Security. For example, several sites are behind some proxy. When a site is behind a proxy, it could appear that every visitor is coming from the same…
Introducing Freelance Leap Year & iThemes Training!
When I was getting started in web development, I couldn’t wait until the start of a new year. There were always people or companies that were launching new courses that would help my career out. I could learn anything, web development, marketing, even sales! I used this time…
On the Twelfth Day of Giving: AirPods Pro
Have you ever thought to yourself that you needed some quiet space inside of a coffee shop? Or maybe you wanted to listen to your movie on a plane without having to hear the constant white noise or the person snoring next to you? Well today, you are…
On the Eleventh Day of Giving: Freelance Business Book Bundle
I am an avid reader and learner. It is the one thing that has been lifelong (thus far). So it probably wouldn’ t surprise anyone to hear that I read a lot of books (if you forgot, just go read the Kindle post from a few days ago). As…
On the Tenth Day of Giving: LifterLMS
I got to spend a couple of days chatting with Chris Badgett this year during a webinar we did together. Chris is one of the founders of LifterLMS, and he is sincerely a nice and generous man. I loved chatting with him and our conversations were some of…
On the Ninth Day of Giving: iThemes Hosting
Q: What lets you create 2 new sites in a single-click, includes the original WordPress backup plugin, the best plugin to secure and protect your site, and allows you to manage both sites from a single dashboard? A: iThemes Hosting, our WordPress hosting platform. Starting your passion project has…
On the Eighth Day of Giving: Course Pass of Your Choice
We love providing training to our customers. In fact, we do so much training via live webinars we’ ve log thousands of live webinars since we started our training in late 2009. For 10 years, we’ ve been focusing on training freelancers, small business owners, site owners and the DIY…
WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: December 2019, Part 1
A few new WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities were disclosed during the first half of December, so we want to keep you aware. In this post, we cover recent WordPress plugin, theme and core vulnerabilities and what to do if you are running one of the vulnerable plugins…
On the Seventh Day of Giving: Ninja Forms
There are many types of form plugins out there, but I want to tell you a little bit about Ninja Forms, which happens to be today’s giveaway. We’ll get into this plugin in just a few, but make sure you sign up for the giveaway because it’s a…
On the Sixth Day of Giving: Beaver Builder
When I started building WordPress websites back in 2003, it was a very different world than what we live in now. Heck, the entire Internet was very different back then. In around 2008, I came across a WordPress theme called Headway Themes. It was built by a father/son…
On the Fifth Day of Giving: KadenceWP
As WordPress continues to evolve, the way we write content is starting to change. If you’ ve been living under a rock the last ~2 years, you likely have never heard about anything related to Gutenberg or the Block Editor. But here we are, at the end of 2019, …
On the Fourth Day of Giving: iThemes Training
Technology has changed even revolutionized the way people learn new skills. We no longer have to go to colleges or universities to learn a new trade or skills. Because of this, we turn to online resources to get the training that we need. I know that anytime I…
On the Third Day of Giving: iThemes Security Pro
Have you ever thought about what you would do if your site gets hacked? Would you even know that your site has been hacked? Do you have a clean backup to restore your site? Are you prepared to craft a statement that informs your customers of the breach…
On the Second Day of Giving: Amazon Kindle
At the beginning of this decade, I was spending a lot of time on the road. I was working for some big names in the tech industry and was traveling back and forth from Silicon Valley to DC to Michigan. On one particular flight back to Michigan, I…
On the First Day of Giving: BackupBuddy
When we started iThemes over a decade ago, the WordPress space wasn’ t what it is today. WordPress would get installed in this weird “ 5 minute install ” and the rest was the wild west. We were like this too, until one day we lost all of iThemes.com….
Announcing 12 Days of Giving!
As a thank you to past, present and future iThemes customers, we are running a special 12 Days of iThemes Giving each week day December 5 – 20, 2019. It’ s our way to give back to our loyal community as a thank you for being with us on…
WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: November 2019, Part 2
A few new WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities were disclosed during the second half of November, so we want to keep you aware. In this post, we cover recent WordPress plugin, theme and core vulnerabilities and what to do if you are running one of the vulnerable plugins…
