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Pagebuilder iPad app – sneak peak video
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
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 M
101 design customizations for WooThemes Storefront
Here’s 101 ways to customize the Woothemes 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 650,000 times – so it’s very popular, and for good reason.
How to get full width sliders when using Meta slider and Pootle Page builder
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 you are
How to link from a photo to open a PDF
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.
18tags Pro sneak peek video – featuring the Pootle live editor
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.
How to set up WooCommerce Bookings for rental properties or hotel rooms
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 ext
How to build these 10 beautiful homepage layouts in only a few minutes
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.
How to change the layout of your WooThemes Storefront home page
This WooThemes Storefront tutorial shows you how to get complete control over the home page of your website with no coding.
Introducing 18 tags – our new free WordPress theme
18 tags is our first WordPress theme. It’s highly customizable and we’ve tried to make it very easy to use. Below are some videos that show you some of the key elements of 18 tags. I’ll be putting some more in-depth tutorial together over the coming weeks. You can download 18 tags for free here. H
5 free 2.5D parallax video backgrounds
Video backgrounds can really bring your pages to life. Here’s 5 free 2.5D parallax video backgrounds that will work great on your website, especially if you are using the free pootle page builder plugin. These video backgrounds have been created from photos from unsplash.com. You are free to use the
Storefront Pro mobile store
Here’s a sneak peek at some new functionality coming to Storefront Pro very soon. Mobile store gives your customers a richer, better and faster shopping experience when using the WooThemes Storefront theme – so you’ll sell more! Here’s a little video that shows you the mobile store option in Storefr
WooThemes Storefront: How to add a hero video background
This short tutorial shows you how to add a video hero to WooThemes Storefront. This tutorials uses the following free plugins, Pootle page builder Shortcodes ultimate How to add a background video hero section to WooThemes Storefront from pootlepress on Vimeo.
How to add icons to WooThemes Storefront menu items
Here’s a short video tutorial on how to add icons to WooThemes Storefront menu items. This tutorials uses our Storefront Pro plugin and the online font library from Font Awesome. How to add icons to WooThemes Storefront menus from pootlepress on Vimeo.
WooThemes Storefront Mega Menus
With the release of our Storefront Pro plugin, creating Mega menus for WooThemes Storefront is now super easy. Here’s a short video that shows you how you can create WooThemes Storefront mega menus with one click, Mega menus Features Create mega menus with 1 click Add up to four columns in your mega
How to create a stunning photography website
Introduction This step by step video tutorial shows you how to create a beautiful full width photography website using the Divi Theme from Elegant Themes. This tutorials uses the Divi Theme from Elegant Themes, and our Page Customizer plugin. How to do it How to create a photograpy or artists websit
How to set up an online store with WooCommerce
This course teaches you step by step how to set up and run your very own online shop built on WordPress. This tutorial uses WooCommerce, the great ecommerce plugin from Woothemes.
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
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.
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 vi
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 Storefront. This tutorial uses the following plugins. Shortcodes Ultimate Pootle page builder Storefront align menu right Site origin CSS I’ve also used the free pootle page builder storefront child theme.
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 ca
Take your static website photos to another dimension with this 2.5D parallax effect
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 photo l
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.
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 tu
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
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
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.
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 the top of the v
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
How to create a blog design like WooThemes and Medium.com using WooThemes Canvas
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
Menu Customizer for WooThemes Canvas gets even more mind-blowing
WooCommerce Customizer for WooThemes Canvas [Sneak preview video]
21 tips, tricks and CSS tweaks for WooThemes Storefront
These WooThemes Storefront tweaks have been curated from the most common questions we’ve found on the web. We really hope you find them useful. We’ll be adding to them over the coming months. We recommend that you use a child theme for these tweaks and we’ve created a free blank WooThemes Storefront
How to make a sticky footer in WooThemes Canvas in 10 minutes
Footer Widget Manager was one of the first Canvas Extensions we released and it’s been really popular. So it’s nice to be able to give it an update and add a feature that many of you have asked us about – sticky footers! Like all our Canvas Extensions, we want them to blend in Canvas as much as poss
Remove WordPress Customizer sections easily
Want to hide or remove WordPress Customizer sections? Us too. This great post by Tom McFarlin (profesional WordPress developer) got us thinking. We too have got super excited about the possibilities of the WordPress Customizer. Maybe a little too excited. We agree with Tom that there will very soon
Go mobile-first with Mobile Menu Customizer 2 for WooThemes Canvas – video tutorial
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 featu
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
WooThemes Storefront Tutorial and walkthrough
Storefront is the bright shiny new Theme from WooThemes aimed at WooCommerce users. It’s free and has already been downloaded almost 10,000 times in just 1 week so it’s going to be big. Here’s a WooThemes Storefront tutorial and video walkthrough we put together showing you how to get your site up
Replace the Add to cart button on the WooCommerce shop page
This was SOOO frustrating! I couldn’t find the documentation for this anywhere. I finally figured it out and so I wanted to share it with you. This is if you want to replace the Add to cart button on the WooCommerce product archive page (shop page) with a normal button that links to the single produ
5 lovely menus made in one afternoon with Menu Customizer (& 5 cups of tea)
You may know that in England we drink a LOT of tea. These menus were all created in one afternoon with our newest plugin Menu Customizer for WooThemes Canvas. The main thing I needed (other than Menu Customizer) was a tea break between each one to keep me going. So here they are… 5 menus powered b
10 Canvas Page Builder and Page Customizer tips and tricks (now 13)
We’ve been blown away by the incredible sites you have been building with Canvas Page Builder and Page Customizer. What’s been really exciting to see is the level of creativity that the combination of Canvas and these two plugins has unleashed. We’ve been getting some common questions over the