Author: Jamie Marsland
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Dashboard help
Our WordPress quick start guide can be viewed from within your WordPress Dashboard. This means that you don’t need to leave your WordPress website for help, while you work on it.
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CSS for Beginners
This tutorial will show you how to tweak your website design with CSS. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. CSS defines how all the elements on your website are displayed.
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How to add a fullscreen background video to WordPress
Here’s how to easily add a fullscreen background video to your website. This tutorial is using the following plugins. Pootle page builder Page customizer add-on for Pootle page builder
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How to create a beautiful fullscreen website with WooThemes Canvas
Here’s a nice short video tutorial on how to create a fullscreen website with WooThemes Canvas. This tutorial uses the following plugins, Pootle page builder, Page customizer for Pootle page builder and Menu customizer.
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Pootlepress turns 5
Today Pootlepress turns 5. It’s been an amazing journey so far. It’s been a genuine privilege to have met you all, some face to face, some virtually. It’s inspiring to have seen all the creative ways you are using WordPress. The greatest pleasure is hearing stories of your success so please keep sharing them.
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![Blog customizer for Pootle page builder [sneak peek video]](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20700%20608'%3E%3C/svg%3E "Blog customizer for Pootle page builder [sneak peek video] 6")
Blog customizer for Pootle page builder [sneak peek video]
Having just released version 1 of Pootle page builder we thought we should follow it up with some useful page builder add-ons. Our first add-ons will be The one-pager for pootle page builder and Blog Customizer. These 2 pootle page builder add-ons will be released in the next two weeks. Here’s a video that shows you…
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How to create a beautiful fullscreen website with WooThemes Storefront
Following on from my Elegant Themes Divi fullscreen website tutorial, here’s one for WooThemes Storehttps://www.pootlepress.com/2015/09/how-to-create-a-beautiful-fullscreen-divi-website/front. This tutorial uses the following plugins. Shortcodes Ultimate Pootle page builder Site origin CSS I’ve also used the free pootle page builder storefront child theme. Here’s the video tutorial, and below that is the custom css you will need. If…
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How to create a beautiful fullscreen Divi website with 5 simple tweaks
Here’s a simple tutorial on how to create a beautiful fullscreen website with the Divi Theme from Elegant Themes. This tutorial uses the free css plugin from Site Origin that can be downloaded here . I’ve also included all the CSS that you will need to reproduce this on your own websites. The CSS can…
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2.5D parallax effect tutorial – how to turn a static photo into a 2.5 D video
2.5 D is an exciting technique that you can apply to your photos. The great thing about this effect is that you can apply it to old photographs and bring them to life. When used in conjunction with our new free pootle page builder plugin 2.5D photos look really beautiful. To see how a 2.5D…
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Sneaky peak – pootle page builder one pager
Here’s a sneak peak of some functionality we are going to release in an upcoming pootle page builder add-on. The idea behind this is to make it incredibly easy to build a stunning smooth scrolling one pager WordPress website. We are aiming to have this available in September. We hope you like it. If you…
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Video tutorial – How to add a Wedding List to your WooCommerce store
Adding a wedding wishlist to your WordPress store is now super easy. Last week, whilst building a WooCommerce website on one of our WordPress Xpress days, I got asked to add a wedding list. Here’s a quick 3 minute tutorial that shows you how to add a wedding list to your WooCommerce store. This tutorial…
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Video tutorial – How to create a Pinterest style masonry grid in your WordPress pages
Here’s a 1 minute video tutorial on how to create a lovely looking Pinterest style masonry grid on your WordPress website – using any theme. This is done using our new free pootle page builder plugin. If you have any questions, just leave them in the comments below, Thanks for taking the time to pootle 🙂
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5 really useful things you can do with shortcodes ultimate and pootle page builder
Here’s 5 really quick video tutorials that show you some of the cool things you can do with our new pootle page builder plugin and the really useful shortcodes ultimate plugin. 1) Pull posts from different categories into different columns within a page builder page 2) Add ‘call to action’ buttons within your page builder pages…
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WooThemes Storefront page builder child theme
The WooThemes Storefront theme adds a bottom margin below the header which can be a little inconvenient when designing your website. We noticed this particularly when using our new pootle page builder. To illustrate this, below are 2 pictures. The left picture shows the standard Storefront theme. Notice the big white space below the black header and…
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Video tutorial – How to add a parallax effect in WordPress in just 1 minute
This short tutorial shows you how to create beautiful parallax pages in WordPress. This tutorial uses our free pootle page builder plugin. Click here to download pootle page builder If you have any questions, as ever, please leave them in the comments below. Thanks for taking the time to pootle.
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Video tutorial – How to add a video background to a WordPress page
Do you want to add a video background to your WordPress home page or to any other page on your website? If so, this short (it’s only 1 minute long!) tutorial shows you how you can add a really beautiful video background to any WordPress page. You will also learn how to put text over…
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Video tutorial – How to add posts into any of your WordPress pages
The short video below shows you how to easily add posts into your WordPress pages. In the video tutorial below I’m using two free WordPress plugins to do this. 1) pootle page builder – click here to download pootle page builder 2) Shortcodes ultimate – click here to download shortcodes ultimate I show you how…
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![How to build a website like Strava with WooThemes Canvas [Video]](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201241%201560'%3E%3C/svg%3E "How to build a website like Strava with WooThemes Canvas [Video] 21")
How to build a website like Strava with WooThemes Canvas [Video]
If you cycle then you probably know the website Strava. It’s a really clean and beautifully designed website. I thought it would be fun to show you how easy it is to create a site like Strava just using the Canvas theme from WooThemes and a few PootlePress Canvas Extensions. In the following videos I show…
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![50 Beautiful WooThemes Canvas websites [free ebook] now available](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201600%201018'%3E%3C/svg%3E "50 Beautiful WooThemes Canvas websites [free ebook] now available 22")
50 Beautiful WooThemes Canvas websites [free ebook] now available
PootlePress has brought together 50 beautiful Canvas websites. We’d like to thank our customers for submitting 95 websites to be considered for inclusion in this ebook. It was a really difficult task narrowing these down to just 50 as all the sites were of a very high standard. We hope you find inspiration for your…
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![Submit your WooThemes Canvas website [to be included in our free ebook]](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20575%20500'%3E%3C/svg%3E "Submit your WooThemes Canvas website [to be included in our free ebook] 23")
Submit your WooThemes Canvas website [to be included in our free ebook]
We’re publishing a free ebook called ‘The 50 most beautiful WooThemes Canvas websites’. We’d love you to submit your site, or a site you’ve built with Canvas. We want this to be a useful resource and inspiration for the community of Canvas users, so please don’t be shy. [box type=”alert”]Submissions are now closed as the ebook has been…
![Blog customizer for Pootle page builder [sneak peek video]](https://www.pootlepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/blog-customizer-for-pootle-page-builder1.jpg "Blog customizer for Pootle page builder [sneak peek video] 6")
![How to build a website like Strava with WooThemes Canvas [Video]](https://www.pootlepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Pootle-Strava-Website.png "How to build a website like Strava with WooThemes Canvas [Video] 21")
![50 Beautiful WooThemes Canvas websites [free ebook] now available](https://www.pootlepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Cover_noLogo_1.jpg "50 Beautiful WooThemes Canvas websites [free ebook] now available 22")
![Submit your WooThemes Canvas website [to be included in our free ebook]](https://www.pootlepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/pootlepress-ebook.png "Submit your WooThemes Canvas website [to be included in our free ebook] 23")