Category: WordPress

WooBuilder blocks is a WordPress plugin that lets you customize the WooCommerce Single Product Page for a single product, a category of products, or for all your products. It’s built to be super fast and lean, with no Page Builder required Today we released version 2.5 of WooBuilder Blocks. It’s a major release that contains the following improvements New…

Here’s a free plugin to align your WooCommerce Storefront Menu Right Would you like lots more customization options for the Storefront theme? If you want to fully customize the Storefront Theme then checkout our Storefront Pro Plugin ($49)

Here’s a free Blank Chlid theme for WooCommerce Storefront. This is great if you are looking to add your own css or php functions. Would you like lots more customization options for the Storefront theme? If you want to fully customize the Storefront Theme then checkout our Storefront Pro Plugin ($49)

Coming soon to WooBuilder Here’s a sneak peek video of how the new WooBuilder Templating system is going to work. I hope to release this in the next two weeks.

With the release of WordPress 5 comes a brand new editor. The new editor , commonly known as the Block editor or the Gutenberg editor gives you many extra customization and layout options when building your wordpress ecommerce website. In the tutorial below, I’ll show you how to build an awesome WooCommerce website using the…

I’ve just confirmed some new WordPress training course dates for March, April and May. The WordPress training course runs in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Cheltenham and Edinburgh. WordPress training course dates

A couple of days ago we were informed by the team at Freemius of an important security update.  Freemius handle licence management for our plugins. Therefore we have released new versions of the following Pootlepress plugins, that include their security fix.  Pagebuilder Pro – new version is 5.5.1.2 Storefront Pro – new version is 5.9.4.1 Storefront…

Here’s a video tutorial on 5 page effects that you can create using the new WordPress Block editor and our free Caxton Plugin. Caxton is a free collection of Blocks that makes it easy to create awesome WordPress pages. This tutorial uses our Shape Divider Block that comes with Caxton. The great thing about the…

I’m thrilled that the Guardian have confirmed dates for 2019 for their WordPress Masterclass series. This is the third year that I’ll be working with the Guardian to run these courses. They are always great fun, and they always sell out. The January course has already sold out, but we have other dates of May…

Our Caxton Shape Divider Block got an amazing review by WordPress founder Matt Mulleweg last week on the WP Tavern weekly podcast.  Here’s the audio clip Audio Transcription Here’s the Question and Matt’s reply Question: Is there anything that people have built using Gutenberg that really impress you? Matt’s reply One of my current favourites…

Pootlepress had some great coverage at this years WordCamp US 2018 in Nashville. During Matt Mullengweg’s State of the Word speech our Caxton Shape Divider Block was featured.  I travelled to Nashville to attend WordCamp US this year, so sitting in the audience whilst our Caxton plugin was featured was a great moment 🙂 Here’s…

With the release of WordPress version 5 came a brand new default 2019 Theme. The Twenty Nineteen theme features a great design and is lightweight and fast. I’ve been playing with the Twenty Nineteen Theme today whilst testing the next version of our Shape Divider Block, that is part of our Caxton plugin.  They are…

The Shape Divider Block makes it easy to create beautiful transitions between your Gutenberg rows.

This week we released an update to our Storefront Blocks plugin that adds a new block called the Product Block. The Product Block let’s you customize the layout of WooCommerce products and then insert them anywhere. Here’s a few examples of how you might use the Product Block. Create full width and full height product…

Here’s a little tutorial on how to create a grid layout with tiles (and text) using the new Gutenberg Editor and our Caxton plugin. Video tutorial

This week we released a big update to our free Gutenberg based plugin Caxton. Caxton is a collection of blocks including, a Layout Block, Post Grid block, a Slider block, a Button block, a Social Icon block, and a Text Customizer block. 

Storefront Pro home page sliders are by default set to ‘cover’. This means that whatever text you put over them, the text won’t fall outside of the image behind it. This is especially important when being viewed on a mobile phone. Here’s an explanation on why it’s best practice to set background images to cover.…

Here’s a quick video walkthrough of how you can easily customize WooCommerce Product pages for the Divi Theme using our Pootle Pagebuilder Pro plugin.

Here’s a look at our new Super Hero Block for our Caxton plugin. Caxton is based on the upcoming new WordPress Editor, Gutenberg.