How to create a blog design like WooThemes and Medium.com using WooThemes Canvas
By Categories: Canvas by WooThemes, Canvas Extensions, Video Tutorials, WordPress 10 Comments

We want to join with our friends across the atlantic to celebrate Independence Day this weekend, so here is a new tutorial inspired by our ‘special relationship’ ;) Blog posts with full width thumbnail images with titles on top… It seems that this design concept is very popular at the moment, with many blogs adopting…

Menu Customizer for WooThemes Canvas gets even more mind-blowing [video walk-through]
By Categories: Canvas by WooThemes, Canvas Extensions, Video Tutorials 12 Comments

[box type=”tick”]Menu Customizer 2 beta release is now in customer accounts. It will be rolled out to customer sites for plugin update notifications in stages over the next few weeks. For more questions, please see our note on the support forum.[/box]   Great products evolve. It all started with our Menu Pack for Canvas back in 2013….

WooCommerce Customizer for WooThemes Canvas [Sneak preview video]
By Categories: Canvas by WooThemes, Canvas Extensions, Video Tutorials, Woocommerce, WordPress 21 Comments

[box type=”tick”]Available now from the store[/box] One of the things we love about Canvas is that it is developed by WooThemes, who also develop WooCommerce, so you know their going to play nicely together. Having said this, there are a lot customizations we do with Canvas to make shops look unique for our customers. So…

Go mobile-first with Mobile Menu Customizer 2 for WooThemes Canvas – video tutorial
By Categories: Canvas by WooThemes, Canvas Extensions, Video Tutorials, WordPress 11 Comments

In September 2014 mobile traffic to retail websites overtook desktop traffic for the first time ever, rising to 52 per cent of all traffic. Source. We released Mobile Menu Manager last year because we know a lot of you are focussed on your mobile responsive sites. We’ve listened to some of the features you wanted…

7 reasons why Canvas Page Builder 2 is going to make you happy [sneaky peek]
By Categories: Canvas by WooThemes, Canvas Extensions, PootlePress news 47 Comments

It’s no secret that Canvas Page Builder is our most popular Canvas Extension. As well as supporting it every step since it’s launch in June this year, we have been working on a few enhancements based on our continued use of it for customers of our WordPress Xpress days and, more importantly, your feedback. We’re…

New Canvas Extension – Menu Customizer [Preview Video]
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[box style=”tick”]Menu Customizer has just got a major update! Check out Menu Customizer 2 for Canvas.[/box] We’ve been hard at work over the summer, both taking holidays with the family (sometimes hard work!) and developing new functionality for Canvas. In the coming months we have major upgrades for Page Customizer and Mobile Menu Manager, but…

How to get cool social icons in your Top Nav [WooThemes Canvas – video]
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[box style=”info”]Top Nav Manager and Font Awesome Menus have now been included as features inside Menu Customizer! Therefore it is no longer for sale. Check out Menu Customizer for Canvas.[/box]   Lately we’ve been working really hard to make all our Canvas Extensions play nicely together. What’s been really cool, is thinking around what can…

How to create long scrolling pages with full width rows with Page Customizer & Page Builder for WooThemes Canvas
By Categories: Canvas by WooThemes, Canvas Extensions, Video Tutorials 20 Comments

We have been hard at work developing our new extension Page Customizer which gives you the ability to have page level control in Canvas. Options include full width pages, background images, background colors, hiding elements and mobile options too. Not only this but you can also set these options site-wide and then turn them off…

How to get a horizontal sub-menu in WooThemes Canvas [video tutorial]
By Categories: Canvas by WooThemes, Canvas Extensions, Video Tutorials, WordPress 22 Comments

[box type=”info”]Please note: this plugin is no longer for sale.[/box] Our new Canvas Extension, horizontal sub-menu allows you to change the default vertical drop-down menu to a much cleaner horizontal sub-menu. This is something that, until now, would have taken a considerable amount of time and CSS skill to achieve. It’s now 5 minutes work!…

Full width rows with customizable backgrounds for Canvas Page Builder [sneak preview]
By Categories: Canvas by WooThemes, Canvas Extensions, Video Tutorials, WordPress 26 Comments

Rows. It’s all about the rows. As soon as we launched Canvas Page Builder, many of you told us that you’d love to be able to add background colours and background images to rows and have them go full width so you can create stunning long scolling full width sites with sections. We agreed (&…

Sneak preview – Canvas Page Builder [video]
By Categories: Canvas by WooThemes, Canvas Extensions, Video Tutorials, WordPress 91 Comments

We’ve been working hard at PootlePress on a major release for WooThemes Canvas users. Canvas Page Builder is a fork of a popular Page Builder by SiteOrigin. We’ve worked really hard to make this work beautifully for Canvas. Canvas Page Builder works with widgets. We’ve create a few new widgets that make page building super-fast…