Author: Jamie Marsland
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Build a better shop with Storefront Pro 3.5
Storefront Pro is now used by over 3000 online shops around the world – here’s 10 very short videos that show you the highlights that come with version 3.5.
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5 pro design ideas for your WordPress pages
5 pro design ideas for your WordPress pages Pootle Pagebuilder was recently ranked in the top 3 page builders by WordPress guru Pippin Williamson. And version 3.5 of Pootle Pagebuilder is our biggest update yet. Here’s 5 simple tips that will help you create amazing looking pages. Read more about Pootle Pagebuilder Pro Pixel perfect design For me, this is the…
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Pixel perfect control comes to Pootle Pagebuilder
Pixel perfect control comes to Pootle Pagebuilder One of my aims with Pootle Pagebuilder is to give you the same level of design capability that you already have with desktop publishing. The video below shows you two more improvements we are making; the ability to drag content anywhere within a row, and the ability to…
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Drag and drop ‘easy build’ modules for WordPress
Say hello to drag and drop ‘easy build’ modules for WordPress Here’s a few videos showing you the new ‘easy build’ modules now available in Pootle Pagebuilder. ‘Easy build’ Modules can be dropped anywhere into a page or a post and make it even easier to create great looking pages and posts. Drag and drop…
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Running a WordPress masterclass for the The Guardian – new September date confirmed
I’ve just confirmed a date for my digital WordPress masterclasses that I run in partnership with the guardian. The July course sold out very quickly (which is a good thing) and the new date is Tuesday 27th September. Information on the course can be found here ‘how to create a WordPress website in a day’.
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Pagebuilder iPad app – sneak peak video
Here’s a sneak peak video of our upcoming Pootle Pagebuilder iPad app. We think it’s pretty cool and we hope you’re going to love it. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave them in the comments below.
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How to create a WordPress to Mailchimp landing page
How to create a WordPress to Mailchimp landing page I often get asked when running my WordPress training courses ‘how do you create a WordPress to Mailchimp landing page‘. So here’s a short tutorial that shows you a nice simple way to do it. To achieve this I’m using the following three plugins Mailchimp for WordPress –…
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Storefront Pro version 3 now available
Today we released Storefront Pro 3. This builds some extra cool features on top of those already released in previous version of Storefront Pro and is designed to work beautifully with WooThemes Storefront 2. If you would like to see detailed video walkthroughs of what’s possible with Storefront Pro click here to see 101 design customizations…
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How to get full width sliders when using Meta slider and Pootle Page builder
Meta slider is a very popular free Slider plugin for WordPress, and here’s a simple tweak that will enable you to have full width sliders when used with our free Pootle Page Builder plugin. Step 1 – Add the following css to your custom css Add the following CSS to your child theme. If…
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How to link from a photo to open a PDF
Here’s a simple tutorial on how to link from a photo to open a PDF. I get this question asked quite quite a bit, so I thought a little video tutorial was in order. I hope you find it useful.
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Why most businesses use WordPress – video intro of my talk to the British association for counselling and psychotherapy
I recently gave a talk to the British association for counselling and psychotherapy as part of their Continuing Professional Development day.
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The most flexible theme we could build – introducing 18tags Pro
Last week we released our 18tags Pro, our new premium WordPress theme. When designing 18tags Pro our main design consideration was to make it as flexible and easy to customize as possible, but also very fast and lean.
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Running WordPress masterclasses with the Guardian
A little news from Pootle HQ….we’re really pleased to be now working with the Guardian as part of their digital masterclass series. We ran our first WordPress Masterclass course in February and the next one will be run on the 10th May.
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Introducing Wilson and Pootle
A Monster tale…. Pootlepress is now 5 years old. Our purpose in life is to make running successful websites easier for our customers. We’ve been wanting to personalise the Pootlepress brand so that it tells our customers stories more effectively across social and digital media.
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18tags Pro sneak peek video – featuring the Pootle live editor
Here’s a sneak peek video of the upcoming pro version of our WordPress theme 18tags. 18tags pro features our upcoming Pootle live editor (working title). The Pootle live editor is a lean, front end, drag and drop editor that makes it easy to create beautiful looking WordPress pages in minutes. The Pootle live editor will initially be launched as part of…
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How to set up WooCommerce Bookings for rental properties or hotel rooms
WooCommerce Bookings is a very powerful extension that adds the ability for online booking. Now WooThemes have built a free add-on to Bookings designed to make it easier to sell rooms and apartments. The following videos show you how to set up WooCommerce Bookings and the Accomodation Bookings extension. These video tutorials are using the…
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How to build these 10 beautiful homepage layouts in only a few minutes
Creating compelling home page is important and fun – so here are 10 layout possibilities when using our free 18 tags theme. I’ve also provided a short explanation under each image on how each page was built.
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The Pootle live editor (now called the Pootle live designer) – sneak peek video
Introducing the Pootle live editor Here’s a sneak peek video of our upcoming live editor for Pootle page builder. Our aim with The Live Editor is to make it much easier to create beautiful WordPress pages. We’re hoping to release the Live Editor in early February. pootle live editor red from pootlepress on Vimeo. Customer…
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Introducing 18 tags – our new free WordPress theme
18 tags is our first WordPress theme. It’s highly customizable and we’ve tried to make it very easy to use. Below are some videos that show you some of the key elements of 18 tags. I’ll be putting some more in-depth tutorial together over the coming weeks. You can download 18 tags for free here. …
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5 free 2.5D parallax video backgrounds
Video backgrounds can really bring your pages to life. Here’s 5 free 2.5D parallax video backgrounds that will work great on your website, especially if you are using the free pootle page builder plugin. These video backgrounds have been created from photos from unsplash.com. You are free to use them wherever you like. This effect…
