2. State of iThemes
The Story of iThemes
Introducing the Make Waves
Theme
Share Team Specific Goals
(What’s Coming Next)
Announcing the Make Waves
Manifesto
Question and Answer
3. The Story of iThemes
Who We Are & Where We’ve Been
4. Our Story
Started in January 2008
Now with 25 team members
Headquartered in Oklahoma City
Named OKC’s 7th Fastest Growing Private Company
Our Mission: Make People’s Lives Awesome
Do the work we love while we supporting our awesome
customer community
14. iThemes.com
Released Ecommerce Themes & several more
Total Builder Child Themes: 63
Working on BuddyPress Themes
Next is Events Block
More Themes, Better Themes, More Features
Chris is working on next big theme innovation project
from iThemes (Release scheduled for mid-Summer)
15. At iThemes
Our goal is to make web design fun &
easy by offering easy to use website
builder tools with a complete design
palette at your disposal
16.
17. PluginBuddy.com
Released Slides & Frolic Plugins
Total Number of Pro Plugins Released: 18
PluginBuddy Developer Suite is our Hottest Package &
Best Value
BackupBuddy 3.0 in the works (late March release)
March is BackupBuddy Month
New BIG plugin project started after BackupBuddy 3.0
18. At PluginBuddy
Our goal is to make web design fun &
easy by letting you do more cool
things with WordPress
19. WebDesign.com
Roughly 340+ Hours of 24/7 Training in Vault
Held 2 live events in OKC this year
Working on 2 more non-OKC live events
Adding 15+ Hours of Fresh Content a Month
Talking to New Guest Experts to Add Value, Topics
Planning a Kid’s Programming Camp this summer
20. WebDesign.com
Covering these topics each month:
Members Only Chat SEO
BluePrint Basics BizDev
PluginFocus Monthly Peek
BluePrint Advanced Getting Started with
WebDesign
CSS
Educating the
jQuery Educators
21. At WebDesign.com
Our goal is to make web design fun
& easy by offering professional,
cutting-edge training in
WordPress web design
22. Our Other Projects
Ebooks AllureThemes.com
Friends of iThemes MadeByWheat.com
Education Program BuildAWebsite.com
iThemesTV TheDiv.org
23. Some of the People Behind the Scenes - Our Central Team