Who

Thrive Themes is a software company that specializes in WordPress related themes and
plugins, which include an advanced website "drag & drop" builder, a newsletter tool, a
comments focused plugin, and many others.

Story & Goals

In 2014, our collaboration with Thrive Themes was born. Together, we started developing what was going to become the Thrive flagship plugin to date, the Thrive Content Builder (now called Thrive Architect). Moving forward, our main focus was to make the Thrive Content Builder the best visual editor for WordPress, where people could easily build their websites without having any programming knowledge whatsoever. And it was a huge success, because people weren’t really used to this kind of live editing interface.

After the Content Builder, it followed Thrive Leads, then Thrive Clever Widgets, and so on. At the moment, in collaboration with BitStone, Thrive Themes has developed 20 different WordPress products.

Thrive Themes at a glance

The journey doesn't stop here. Together with Thrive Themes, we have long-term plans of creating even more conversion focused WordPress plugins, the end goal being to provide the users with a complete experience, being able to build an entire WordPress website without having to use any external software or any sort of programming language.

Technologies

Design

Adobe CreativeSuite

Sketch

InVision

Zeplin

Balsamiq

Principle

Flinto

Development

PHP

WordPress

MySQL

Grunt

Node.js

npm

Backbone.js

jQuery

Github

Jenkins

Testing

Selenium

QMetry

Chalk

Puppeteer

Postman

Since its collaboration with BitStone, the Thrive Themes user community continues to grow significantly, being able to reach over 120 000 total users. Also, the company has reached another milestone of crossing 2 million views on their YouTube channel.

8 years ago we needed a single person, part time, to help with one of our pieces of software. Since then, we've grown to almost 100 people and I can honestly say that we owe a large part of our success to the team at BitStone.

My experience working with Bitstone has been so positive that I personally vow to never work with another development team on any project that I take on now or in the future.

They deliver, you can trust them, they take responsibility, they're engaged with their work.  They've produced market leading software in our industry (some are extremely complex that include, in some cases, ground-breaking features).

As our working relationship approaches the 10 year milestone, they continue to improve and impress me. We've worked together through thick and thin and aim to continue many years into the future.

Paul McCarthy

Thrive Themes Co-fouder