Author: Jamie Marsland

This guide will walk you through how to change your website from the Divi Theme to the WordPress Block Editor, Gutenberg. Divi is one of the popular WordPress Themes in the World, and is now use on over 750,000. One of the key reasons that Divi is so popular is because it comes with it’s…

A big change is coming to the Google Ranking Algorithm in May, and it’s called Google Core Web Vitals. Unusually Google pre-announced this ranking change to give website owners time to prepare. This Webinar is aimed at beginners who maybe haven’t heard about the Core Web Vitals change, or have heard something about it, but…

This guide will show you how to change the Default Sort Order of your products on your WooCommerce Shop Page, your Category Pages and WooCommerce Home Page. By default you’ll only have a few default choices, which I’ve listed below. In Method one, I’ll show you how to select one of these. However, in my…

NitroPack will speed up your website. I’ve been using it on pootlepress.com for the last month and the speed increases I’ve seen when testing through the Google Page Insights tool have been off the charts. NitroPack only takes ten minutes to set up on your WordPress website, and absolutely no technical knowledge is needed. You’ll…

WordPress 5.7 has just been released, and with it comes true drag and drop for the Block Builder Editor (Gutenberg). In this video I explain why this is such a big deal. Let’s go through the reasons why Drag and Drop for the WordPress Block Builder is such a big deal Drag and Drop Blocks…

I’m really pleased to announce that Pootlepress has acquired the Easy Smooth Scroll Links plugin. Easy Smooth Scroll Links is used on over 60,000 websites. What Easy Smooth Scroll Links does? Easy Smooth Scroll Links adds scroll animation effects to page anchors, smooth scroll, and more. This is sometimes called Page jumping. Page jumping, also sometimes referred…

Free Webinar: March 18th, 4pm-5pm (GMT) There’s a big big change coming to how Google Ranks Websites in May this year. This Free Webinar will explain in super simple terms the two main things that you really need to know about. What are the changes to the Google Algorithm in May 2021 (A very simple…

On Thursday 11th March I’m running a free 45 minute webinar called ‘SEO Kickstart’. This webinar is aimed at SEO Beginners who want to improve the traffic to their website, but don’t know anything about Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) or where to start. By the end of the webinar my hope is that you’ll have…

Here’s a video tutorial on how to create an awesome WooCommerce Landing Page or WooCommerce Single Page website, using the WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor and our WooBuilder Blocks plugin. WooBuilder Blocks makes it easy to customize the WooCommerce Product Page using the WordPress Block Builder, Gutenberg.

Here’s a tutorial on how to create Pricing Tables with the Gutenberg Block Editor and our Gutenberg Pro plugin.

Here’s a short tutorial on how to add awesome sliders to the WooCommerce Storefront Theme using our Storefront Pro plugin. There are 4 types of slider you can add Product Sliders Video Slider Photo image slider Featured image

Here’s a few top tips that will help you Edit like a pro when using the Gutenberg Block Editor. Either watch the full video or skip to one of the sections below. 0:00​ – Intro 00:13​ – An easy way to move Blocks in long pages 00:53​ – How to wrap text around an image…

I’m a big fan of the WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor, but sometimes the core blocks don’t quite have enough functionality that I need.  An example is the Cover Block. The Cover Block is great if you want to add a hero, banner or call to action section to your website. I use the Cover Block…

Here’s 101 ways to customize the WooCommerce Storefront theme. Storefront is the official theme for WooCommerce, so it’s a great theme to use if you want to build an online shop with WordPress. It’s now been downloaded over 1.4 million times – so it’s very popular, and for good reason.

Next Tuesday 6th October at 4pm (British Summer Time) I’m running a free 45 minute webinar that will show you how to add a SHOP to your WordPress website.  This will be great if you want to move your business online, or if you have an idea for a start up that you would like to test out.  Here’s what I’ll…

There are quite a few ways to build build a new WordPress website while the old site is live, but this is the easiest non-technical way to do it. Original I wrote this post in 2014 and it’s still my preferred method today. Introduction Step 1: Install a new WordPress website Install a new WordPress…