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Our LifeDev Plan for Investing in People at iThemes

Cory Miller — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:24:14 +0000

I’ve just rolled out our LifeDev plans as part of our Make Waves Manifestos at iThemes today.

It is our way to invest in you — our community and our team. It is one way for us to give back and give of ourselves and I hope you will join us in doing so.

Throughout the year (or next 10 months), we’ll be rolling out training through webinars and blog posts on certain life themes I feel have been instrumental in my life and helping me maintain happy and health relationships.

These are the things I’ve gathered over a lifetime of seeking to learn and grow and improve my life. As such I’m championing this endeavor for iThemes but will be recruiting guest experts to come and share with us.

My goal is to have 200 people signed up … but I think maybe I was thinking too small now.

The commitment to be a part of LifeDev is pretty small honestly. We want you to commit to read one book a month (either from our list or your own); share what you are learning with someone else; and report back to us how you’re growing (so we can measure the impact we’re hoping to make).

It doesn’t cost a thing. It’s our gift to you. But it will cost you time and energy, but it’ll be well worth it!

All in all, there are 6 ‘Make Waves’ Manifestos for us this year … and LifeDev is just one. You can learn about the others on the MakeWaves2012.com site (and be sure to sign up for others that resonate with you).

But in the meantime, I hope you’ll join us for LifeDev this year and let us invest in you and your success!

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How to Backup WordPress the Easy Way

Cory Miller — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:57:20 +0000

Before you do any major upgrade to WordPress, you need to make sure you have a good backup strategy …. check out our BackupBuddy plugin, an all-in-one solution to backups, restores and migrations of WP sites.

Here’s an in-depth article with video tutorials on How to Backup WordPress Easily.

Check out BackupBuddy details here

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Best WordPress Plugins to Use

Cory Miller — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:42:18 +0000

In honor of Cinco de Mayo, WebDesign.com, our premium web design training division, is hosting a free webinar on May 5 to talk about the five most important plugins every WordPress user should be using.

WebDesign.com instructor Benjamin Bradley, who just completed teaching the Advanced WordPress Developers course, will be sharing his insights on what plugins are a must.

Wednesday, May 5th : 11 a.m. to noon (Central Standard Time)

SEATING IS LIMITED!

Reserve your seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/443634499

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Get WordPress Plugins from PluginBuddy

Cory Miller — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:54:22 +0000

We just launched another venture called PluginBuddy, a premium WordPress plugin marketplace today.

This is really exciting for me … and as I write this post on CCP, I think back to this blog and how it started it all!

Anyway, we just launched BackupBuddy, our easy, all-in-one backup, restore, and migration solution for WordPress.

Check out PluginBuddy here …. take a look at BackupBuddy here

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WordPress Theme Bootcamp in Dallas Jan. 29-30

Cory Miller — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:38:28 +0000

James and I, along with the team at iThemes, will be hosting a two-day workshop in Dallas, Texas, Jan. 29-30 to share the ins and outs of about building websites with WordPress.

We’re calling it our iThemes WordPress Theme Bootcamp.

This is a great opportunity for those of you looking to build your church’s website in WordPress!

You can get signup details here …. but on Tuesday, we’re doing a free online workshop to give some highlights of the information we’ll share at the workshop.

Signup for the free preview webinar here …. and get registration details for the Dallas WordPress Theme Bootcamp here.

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WordCamp Atlanta Jan. 8-9 – Who is Going?

Cory Miller — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:14:16 +0000

We’re trying to figure out travel plans potentially for WordCamp Atlanta on Jan. 8-9 … anybody going or in the area and want to meetup if some of us from the iThemes team go?

If you don’t know, WordCamps are 1 to 2 day enthusiast events for WordPress users and lovers! You learn a ton. I’ve been to at least 5 now and always meet great people. Make a comment if you’re going or in the Atlanta area.

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Southern Baptist Pastor Killed in Illinois

Cory Miller — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:04:53 +0000

My wife told me about this tragic story of a Southern Baptist pastor being killed in Illinois … and when I saw his name I remembered I had interviewed for a story a couple years ago when I was communications director for Midwestern Baptist Seminary.

Here is the article I wrote for our alumni magazine

Please keep his family and church in your prayers.

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A Request from Church Communications Pro to You!

James Dalman — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:02:26 +0000

I can’t tell you how excited and blessed I am to be given this opportunity here at Church Communications Pro and to be able to explore new territory! I have all kinds of ideas jumping around in my head but I know that I am going to have to pace myself and learn some new skills and take time to do this right. I am going to share a bit of what I envision happening here at some point:

Great interviews and Q & A Sessions with some really cool people from a variety of church backgrounds, visions, and skills. I love learning from others in the trenches and hope this will be a sweet addition.
Pre-designed and Open Source products such as sermon branding kits, blog headers, website skins, connect cards, and more. I have stuff I have been working on for some time as well as have a few talented designers who will be contributing their stuff as well.
Guest writers who will contribute excellent articles in their area of gifting or skill sets.
Consulting for churches
Sponsorship opportunities and additional resources

These are just a few ideas that I have, but what I am requesting is feedback from you, the Church Communications Pro readers. What are your suggestions for improving or building upon the foundation here? What would be beneficial for your church or ministry? How can I make CCP even better? Please think about providing your two cents to me personally or responding here in the comment section. I really appreciate it!

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Finetuning Your WordPress Blog as a Content Management System

Cory Miller — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:08:03 +0000

Raj at Performancing has a nice post about using WordPress as a content management sytem.

He lists these benefits as reasons to use WordPress as a CMS:

Undated URLs — Change the permalink structure. Click on the “Options” tab then “Permalinks.”
Posts vs pages — On most of the sites I do with WordPress, the permalink structure looks pretty much the same for posts and pages.
Contact forms — I use Chip’s contact form and love it … I think I’m getting more response from people as you don’t have to copy and paste an email address, etc.
About Us page

See also how to finetune your WordPress blog with this excellent article.

You might also check out the whole series on using WordPress as a content management system I did recently …

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One Rockin Site Map Generator WordPress Plugin for Your Blog

Cory Miller — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:52:45 +0000

Check out this rockin plugin for your WordPress-driven blog or church website called Really Simple Site Map.It lists every post and page you’ve ever published and a solution to a more polish sitemap than the Google Sitemap Generator plugin (which still rocks).

See how it works by looking at my site map — and every post I’ve blogged about here.

I get dizzy looking at it … lots of sleepless nights!

[Found via Weblog Tools Collection]

Update: Lorelle of the famous and insanely useful Lorelle on WordPress blog stopped by to correct some things about this post. She gave me an education … and I’m just honored she stopped by! Here’s what she said in the comments that I don’t want you to miss:

Just a little clarification is needed here. There is a LOT of confusion between the terms “sitemap” and “site map”.

A “site map” is a listing of your blog posts on your blog, like a table of contents. This is what the poorly named “Really Simple Sitemap” does. It should be “Really Simple Site Map”.

A “sitemap” is a hidden XML file that is read by Google, Yahoo, and other search engines as a guide to all your blog posts. It isn’t “readable” by humans since it is inside a bunch of code. That’s what the Google Sitemap Plugin does. That’s correctly named.

You might want to fix your post to correctly label what does what. You offer such great information, I’d hate to see this confusion be perpetuated.

Thanks and keep up the great work.

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