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WooCommerce Blocks – The Ultimate Guide
This guide will cover the best WordPress Block Editor Blocks available for WooCommerce. WooCommerce is now the world’s leading e-commerce plugin, with over 5 million websites using it. Even though WooCommerce will automatically create pages – for example, your shop page, and your category pages – and automatically show your products within those pages, you…
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9 ways to make your WooCommerce product header remarkable
The WooCommerce product header is a critical part of your online store. Since it’s on every product page, it’s important that you get it right. Ideally, shoppers should be able to find what they’re looking for and access all the important areas of the site as quickly as possible. For this reason, your WooCommerce product…
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WooCommerce Product Table – how to easily list your products using the Product Table Block and the WordPress Block Editor, Gutenberg
Do you want to make it easier for customers to purchase your products? A Product Table makes it easy for you to create product tables and listings on one page so that customers can buy multiple items in one go. Adding a Product Table is a great way to sell more of your products without…
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Finding the Perfect WooCommerce Product Carousel: Top Features to Look Out For
WooCommerce is a powerful e-commerce platform. However, since it’s one of the most widely-used store plugins for the most popular content management system (CMS) on the internet, sticking with the default WooCommerce template can make your store look pretty generic. By default, the WooCommerce Shop page is generated automatically, so you have little to no…
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How to change from Divi to the Block Editor
This guide will walk you through how to change your website from the Divi Theme to the WordPress Block Editor, Gutenberg. Divi is one of the popular WordPress Themes in the World, and is now use on over 750,000. One of the key reasons that Divi is so popular is because it comes with it’s…
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A beginners guide to Google Core Web Vitals – Webinar
A big change is coming to the Google Ranking Algorithm in May, and it’s called Google Core Web Vitals. Unusually Google pre-announced this ranking change to give website owners time to prepare. This Webinar is aimed at beginners who maybe haven’t heard about the Core Web Vitals change, or have heard something about it, but…
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How to Change Default WooCommerce Product Sorting
This guide will show you how to change the Default Sort Order of your products on your WooCommerce Shop Page, your Category Pages and WooCommerce Home Page. By default you’ll only have a few default choices, which I’ve listed below. In Method one, I’ll show you how to select one of these. However, in my…
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NitroPack Plugin for WordPress – Amazing speed increases for your website, a beginner’s introduction to Google Core Web Vitals, and does NitroPack cheat page scores?
NitroPack will speed up your website. I’ve been using it on pootlepress.com for the last month and the speed increases I’ve seen when testing through the Google Page Insights tool have been off the charts. NitroPack only takes ten minutes to set up on your WordPress website, and absolutely no technical knowledge is needed. You’ll…
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Something small but HUGE just happened to WordPress
WordPress 5.7 has just been released, and with it comes true drag and drop for the Block Builder Editor (Gutenberg). In this video I explain why this is such a big deal. Let’s go through the reasons why Drag and Drop for the WordPress Block Builder is such a big deal Drag and Drop Blocks…
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How to use Easy Smooth Scroll Links – The Smooth Scrolling Anchor Plugin that lets you add Page Jumps in WordPress
I’m really pleased to announce that Pootlepress has acquired the Easy Smooth Scroll Links plugin. Easy Smooth Scroll Links is used on over 60,000 websites. What Easy Smooth Scroll Links does? Easy Smooth Scroll Links adds scroll animation effects to page anchors, smooth scroll, and more. This is sometimes called Page jumping. Page jumping, also sometimes referred…
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How to Speed up your Website and get ready for Google Core Web Vitals Update – Free Webinar March 18th, 4pm-5pm (GMT)
Free Webinar: March 18th, 4pm-5pm (GMT) There’s a big big change coming to how Google Ranks Websites in May this year. This Free Webinar will explain in super simple terms the two main things that you really need to know about. What are the changes to the Google Algorithm in May 2021 (A very simple…
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SEO Kickstart Webinar – 11th March 2021
On Thursday 11th March I’m running a free 45 minute webinar called ‘SEO Kickstart’. This webinar is aimed at SEO Beginners who want to improve the traffic to their website, but don’t know anything about Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) or where to start. By the end of the webinar my hope is that you’ll have…
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How to create a WooCommerce Landing Page or WooCommerce Single Page Website
Here’s a video tutorial on how to create an awesome WooCommerce Landing Page or WooCommerce Single Page website, using the WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor and our WooBuilder Blocks plugin. WooBuilder Blocks makes it easy to customize the WooCommerce Product Page using the WordPress Block Builder, Gutenberg.
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How to create Pricing Tables with the Gutenberg Block Editor
Here’s a tutorial on how to create Pricing Tables with the Gutenberg Block Editor and our Gutenberg Pro plugin.
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How to add Sliders to WooCommerce Storefront
Here’s a short tutorial on how to add awesome sliders to the WooCommerce Storefront Theme using our Storefront Pro plugin. There are 4 types of slider you can add Product Sliders Video Slider Photo image slider Featured image
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Top 10 tips for Editing with the Gutenberg Block Editor
Here’s a few top tips that will help you Edit like a pro when using the Gutenberg Block Editor. Either watch the full video or skip to one of the sections below. 0:00 – Intro 00:13 – An easy way to move Blocks in long pages 00:53 – How to wrap text around an image…
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Gutenberg Pro Webinar recording
Here’s the video recording of the recent Gutenberg Pro Webinar
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Gutenberg Pro – sneak peek video
I’m a big fan of the WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor, but sometimes the core blocks don’t quite have enough functionality that I need. An example is the Cover Block. The Cover Block is great if you want to add a hero, banner or call to action section to your website. I use the Cover Block…
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Customize WooCommerce Storefront Theme – 101 simple tweaks that will boost your sales
Here’s 101 ways to customize the WooCommerce Storefront theme. Storefront is the official theme for WooCommerce, so it’s a great theme to use if you want to build an online shop with WordPress. It’s now been downloaded over 1.4 million times – so it’s very popular, and for good reason.
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FREE WEBINAR – How to add a SHOP to your WordPress Website
Next Tuesday 6th October at 4pm (British Summer Time) I’m running a free 45 minute webinar that will show you how to add a SHOP to your WordPress website. This will be great if you want to move your business online, or if you have an idea for a start up that you would like to test out. Here’s what I’ll…
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Video Tutorial – The easiest way to build a new WordPress site while the old site is live
There are quite a few ways to build build a new WordPress website while the old site is live, but this is the easiest non-technical way to do it. Original I wrote this post in 2014 and it’s still my preferred method today. Introduction Step 1: Install a new WordPress website Install a new WordPress…
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Why does the Gutenberg Block Editor get such bad reviews?
The Gutenberg Block Editor for WordPress continues to get some pretty damming feedback on wordpress.org. I thought it would be fun to go through the reviews of the Gutenberg block editor on WordPress.org in an attempt to understand why people don’t like it. Here’s what I discovered 🙂 Let me know what you think. Do…
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Sneak Peek of WooHoo Bar
Here’s a sneak peek of WooHoo Bar. WooHoo Bar is a notification bar and countdown timer plugin that will increase your sales, by creating urgency in your potential customers and encourage them to click the ‘buy now’ button 🙂 WooHoo Bar is built with the Gutenberg Block Editor so any other 3rd party blocks can…
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Free Webinar – SEO Kickstart – 22nd September (4pm British Summer Time)
On Tuesday 22nd September I’m running a free 45 minute webinar called ‘SEO Kickstart’. This webinar is aimed at SEO Beginners who want to improve the traffic to their website, but don’t know anything about Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) or where to start. By the end of the webinar my hope is that you’ll have…
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Win a Lifetime Licence of WooBuilder Blocks
This week we are running a competition with the team at WP Mayor where you can win a Lifetime Licence of WooBuilder Blocks. Click the big button below to enter. It’s incredibly easy to enter and only takes 10 seconds. WooBuilder Blocks WooBuilder Blocks uses the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) so that WordPress store owners…
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What’s coming in WordPress 5.5 – Webinar recording and live demo
Here’s a recording of a webinar I ran where I cover the major changes coming with WordPress 5.5. Release timescales for WordPress 5.5 Gutenberg changes and live demo Automatic plugin updates Image handling improvements SEO improvements I hope you found it useful, if you have any questions, please leave them in the comments below. Thanks…
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Free Webinar – Learn about the big changes coming in WordPress 5.5
Big changes are coming soon to WordPress and the Gutenberg Block Editor – make sure you are ready! Here’s what I’ll be covering. Release timescale for WordPress 5.5 What’s new in WordPress 5.5 Changes to the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) User interface changes Improvements in image handling Auto Plugin & Theme Updates SEO improvements How you…
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Storefront Blocks Version 3 brings, WooCommerce Mobile Columns settings, a brand new Product Card Block, and Drag and Drop WooCommerce Product Grid sorting
Today we released Storefront Blocks Version 3. Version 3 is a major update that contains the following improvements. WooCommerce Responsive Layouts A brand new Product Card Block Drag and drop WooCommerce Product Grid sorting Search to add WooCommerce Products Let’s take a look at these one by one. WooCommerce Responsive Layouts Storefront Blocks now lets…
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Gutenberg and WooCommerce (Webinar recording)
Here’s my Webinar on the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) and WooCommerce. Here’s what I cover. How to customise the WooCommerce Shop page with Gutenberg How to customize the WooCommerce Single product page with Gutenberg How to customise WooCommerce Category pages How to showcase your WooCommerce products in your blog posts.