Author: Jamie Marsland

  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…

  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’.

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.

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 –…

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…

  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…

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.

I recently gave a talk to the British association for counselling and psychotherapy as part of their Continuing Professional Development day.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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.

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…

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. …

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…

Today we released Storefront Pro 2, an update for our WordPress plugin that let’s you customize almost every element of the WooThemes Storefront theme. Here’s what’s new in Storefront Pro 2, 2015-11-19 – Storefront Pro Version 2.0.0 New – Grid view on mobile store New – List view on mobile store New – Mobile store masonry…

Here’s a short tutorial on how to create a black friday cover page for the WooThemes Storefront theme. This tutorial uses the following plugins, Pootle page builder Shortcodes Ultimate Storefront Pro   How to create a black friday cover page from pootlepress on Vimeo.

Here’s a sneak peek at some new functionality coming to Storefront Pro very soon. Mobile store gives your customers a richer, better and faster shopping experience when using the WooThemes Storefront theme – so you’ll sell more! Here’s a little video that shows you the mobile store option in Storefront Pro. If you have any…