Cory Miller

The anatomy of a security breach, and how to do good in a bad situation

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2014

On Tuesday, iThemes posted an announcement that they had suffered from a security breach of their website and servers. The attackers had reached the servers which stored customer information, including email addresses, IP addresses, full names, and yes, passwords. iThemes…

BackupBuddy Gold and unlimited updates

Travis Northcutt

April 30, 2014

Business

This week, the iThemes launched "BackupBuddy Gold" - a new pricing tier for their BackupBuddy plugin. They already had a $150 tier, which included a license to use the plugin on unlimited sites, as well as support and updates for one year.…

iThemes acquihires Better WP Security, a million+ download WordPress security plugin

Brian Krogsgard

December 4, 2013

BusinessSecurity

iThemes has hired Chris Wiegman and taken over his very popular plugin, Better WP Security. Better WP Security has over a million downloads on WordPress.org and sells commercial support and installation services on FooPlugins. Better WP Security also has excellent…

iThemes Exchange adds support for memberships and physical goods

Brian Krogsgard

October 10, 2013

WordPress News

iThemes Exchange was released only a few months ago, but they've been iterating quickly. As I shared then, they released Exchange without support for physical goods. Now they've not only added support for physical goods, but memberships (recurring and non-recurring)…