Welcome to a new weekly email from iThemes! We are going to be trying a few experiments out over the next couple of months in how we do email.
Let me first introduce myself to you. Hi! I’m AJ Morris, the product and marketing lead here at iThemes.
Each week we’re going to be sharing with you what’s going on over here at iThemes and the WordPress community at large. If you like what we’re doing, please let us know. And if you don’t like what we’re doing? Let us know that too!
This week at iThemes
We released a new beginner’s guide for you called the WP-CLI Beginner’s Guide. It takes you through interacting with WordPress outside of the browser and into the command-line. The command-line doesn’t need to be a feared place. In fact, there’s much you can do that and this guide gives you insight in what you can do with WordPress.
Nathan Ingram held office hours yesterday answers your questions. You can watch the replay or if you have a question, make sure you sign up for the next office hours happening on Feb. 18th.
Nathan also ran his monthly Plugin Roundup this week. As WordPress continues to evolve, so does this monthly webinar series. Recently, Nathan has broken it up to cover a number of different plugins, ones that work with Beaver Builder, ones that work with the WordPress Block Editor and some that can just end up in your toolbox. A couple of favorite for me were the Update Intervals, Block Conditions, and a new plugin called Launch with Words.
We are also starting a new mini series on the blog discussing what it looks like to become a Web Designer. In fact, we are going a little deep into the web designer field this month and running a Web Design Bootcamp with Michelle Schulp. Next week she’s going to be presenting on How to Speak Unicorn - Understanding the Language of Design.
We have a number of resources available to aspiring web designers out there. If that’s you take a look at these helpful links.
As we dive deeper into the Membership space with Restrict Content Pro, I recently wrote an article discussing how to handle failed payments and involuntary churn. If you are building a membership site, you’re not going to want to miss this!
Finally — we’re running a site-wide sale this month on iThemes.com. You can save 35% off any product we sell on iThemes.com. Check out the link for full details.