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What Does a 1.0 Version Number Mean to Us?
Version numbers are highly subjective. For example. WordPress 3.3 Beta 1 was just released. What does that mean to you? Probably not a whole lot except for a promise of new features, but the version number means a lot to the WordPress contributors. We’ve already explained what Beta means to us (again, this is subjective). [...]
LoopBuddy 1.2 Released
LoopBuddy 1.2 has been released, with the main addition being advanced taxonomy and meta queries. New Feature – Advanced Meta Queries Post Meta (aka, Custom Fields) are additional information a user would like to attach to a post. LoopBuddy 1.2 allows you to perform advanced queries on this data to pull just the right information [...]
Introducing iThemes Trials
One of the biggest requests we receive, besides having theme demos, is having a place to try out our plugins as if they were actually installed on a real live site. Introducing trials.ithemes.com We’re pleased to introduce trials.ithemes.com to the iThemes community. Simply visit the site, find the demo you would like to load up, [...]
LoopBuddy 1.1 Released
LoopBuddy 1.1 has been released with several bug fixes and enhancements. New Features Added a place in the Layout Editor to add a custom class that wraps around the entire loop (for styling purposes) LoopBuddy supports WP PageNavi for Pagination You can now query multiple post types and post status parameters Default layouts/queries are loaded [...]
LoopBuddy Final Released
LoopBuddy Final has officially been released. We are tremendously excited about this launch as it opens up the possibilities of what is currently possible with WordPress. You could even think of it as a “game changer”. Builder 3.0 and its child themes are fully compatible with LoopBuddy, so you already have over 40 themes to [...]
LoopBuddy Release Candidate 1 Released
LoopBuddy Release Candidate 1 has been released and was sent to the users in the iThemes Beta Program. If you’d like to be in our beta program and provide us valuable feedback, please sign up. For those not familiar with an Release Candidate, it’s our move out of Beta into what we think is a [...]
BackupBuddy MS Released as a Beta
UPDATE: The new powerful BackupBuddy now includes full Multisite support (in beta) with the latest version. The separate BackupBuddy MS tool, mentioned in this article, is now outdated and fully replaced with the newest version of BackupBuddy. BackupBuddy MS is a tool that allows you to migrate a self-hosted WordPress install into an existing WordPress [...]
LoopBuddy Beta 3 Released
LoopBuddy Beta 2 has been released and was sent to the users in the iThemes Beta Program. If you’d like to be in our beta program and provide us valuable feedback, please sign up. The tentative roadmap is as follows: JJune 10th – LoopBuddy Beta 2 released June 13th – Builder conversions begin July 6th [...]
ThumbsUp Suggest Tutorial Video
As promised, here’s a 6 minute video demonstrating the new features in ThumbsUp 1.3, most notably ThumbsUp Suggest. Get ThumbsUp If you are an active member with the PluginBuddy Developer Suite or the Web Designer’s Toolkit, ThumbsUp is already in your member download area. Want to have access to everything at PluginBuddy, iThemes and WebDesign.com? [...]
ThumbsUp 1.3 Released
ThumbsUp 1.3 has been released with a killer new featured called ThumbsUp Suggest. ThumbsUp Suggest ThumbsUp Suggest is an additional widget that you can add to any widgetized area and allow users to type in their own suggestions. The administrator receives an e-mail of the suggestion and can approve the suggestion as a topic that [...]
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