Author: Jamie Marsland

If you use WooCommerce and have a blog then it’s a great idea to sometimes cross promote your products. This is especially useful if you blog or write posts that are related to your offering as your product is seen in context of your content. Here’s a short video tutorial that shows you how to…

Pootle Slider provides you full control over each slider create columns, add buttons, background images, backgrounds videos and lot more! Poole slider allows full control over slides, powered by Pootle Pagebuilder it converts page builder rows to slides, offering advanced control over each slide!

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.

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…

  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…

  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…