This year, iThemes turned 9 years old. Since 2008, every January, I’m reminded of how grateful I am to you, our customer community, for allowing us to keep doing what we do for you.

For the past couple of years we’ve started pushing out a focus or theme for the year related to you and what we’re hoping to do for you through the year. (Last year it was Go Far Together and the year before Make Waves.) By the traditional, non-WordPress definition, a theme is “the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person’s thoughts, or an exhibition.” And focus simply is “the center of interest or activity.” We believe and act that EVERY day, you are the center of our interest and activity and thoughts and work…because without you, we’d be nowhere. But this year, our focus for you, on your behalf, through everything we do, is simply about one word: PROSPER. Make sure your WordPress website is secure and protected with iThemes Security Pro. iThemes Security Pro works to fix common WordPress security issues you may not know exist. By adding an extra layer of protection, iThemes Security Pro helps give you peace of mind—and keeps the bad guys out.

The word prosper comes from a word that essentially means “doing well.” WE WANT YOU TO PROSPER, TO DO WELL, TO DO BETTER THIS YEAR After 7 years of doing this, I know that the more we help you win and win big — make you money [iThemes Sales Accelerator], or save you time and energy [iThemes Sync], or protect your online work [BackupBuddy, iThemes Security] — we win (which means we get to keep doing this amazing work we do for you).