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

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.

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

[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 w

[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

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

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

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

PootlePress has brought together 50 beautiful Canvas websites. We’d like to thank our customers for submitting 95 websites to be considered for inclusion in this ebook. It was a really difficult task narrowing these down to just 50 as all the sites were of a very high standard. We hope you find in

We’re publishing a free ebook called ‘The 50 most beautiful WooThemes Canvas websites’. We’d love you to submit your site, or a site you’ve built with Canvas. We want this to be a useful resource and inspiration for the community of Canvas users, so please don’t be shy. [box type=”alert”]Submissi

This morning we have released a significant update to Page Customizer for WooThemes Canvas. As well as some tweaks and bug fixes we have also introduced the following new features: 1. Hide header in mobile view Sometimes in mobile view you want to get straight to the point. This enhancement takes ou

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 fe

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

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

[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 f

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

[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. Wha

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 si

I received an email this morning asking if it was possible to create a customisable WooCommerce landing page with our new Canvas Page Builder plugin and our upcoming Page Customizer plugin. The answer is yes – and here’s a little video (no sound) that shows you how easy this is 🙂 If you have any qu

Jeff over at WPTavern has just published this post “WordPress Visual Page and Website Builders Make It Easy To Create Ugly Sites”. It’s a really interesting point Jeff makes. The same argument was made when desktop publishing arrived in full force in the 1980’s. Back then typesetters argued that the

[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 C

We’ve received lots of feedback that you would like greater control over your Canvas pages. So very soon we’ll be releasing the Page Customizer extension for WooThemes Canvas. Below are a couple of videos that walk you through some of the major features. Note: we’re also adding some cool mobile feat

You may have already heard that we’re crazy excited about our new Canvas Page Builder extension. We think it’s truly ace. Spectacular. And dare we say it, awesome. Amongst our excitement, we managed to get a hold of ourselves long enough to think that maybe we’d better get someone else to road

Sticky Header is one of the most popular Canvas Extensions but it was also one of the first we developed. We’ve learn’t and lot since then, so when we realised that Sticky Header was causing more support requests than all the other Canvas Extensions put together, we decided to kill it and completely

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 (& to b

Creating and arranging a grid of posts that are organised into sections by their categories used to be difficult. It’s now super easy! The following tutorial will show you how easy this is now with the WooThemes Canvas Page Builder.

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

[box type=”tick”]You can buy Masonry Blog now for $19 from the PootlePress store[/box] When we started Canvas Extensions, one of the first ones we wanted to develop was a Masonry extension. It was one of the first ideas on our ideas board – and one of the most popular! It works with the Magazine Tem

[box type=”info”]Please note: Featured Video for Slider for WooThemes Canvas is no longer for sale.[/box] Have you seen the latest trend for homepage videos that auto-play in a full width slider? If not, check out Zendesk and PayPal (which do at the time of writing). We think this is a seriously nic

[box type=”tick”]You can purchase the Replace Header Imager per Page Canvas Extension from the PootlePress Store for $10[/box] One of the limitations in Canvas is that you can only set one header background image for the whole site. This severely limits the design, look and feel of Canvas sites. W

[box style=”info”]Font Awesome Menus has now been included as a feature inside Menu Customizer! Therefore it is no longer for sale. Check out Menu Customizer for Canvas.[/box] Being a small company run by a couple of British guys, we often debate the overuse of the word ‘awesome’. To us it sounds ve

[box type=”tick”]Purchase Mobile Menu Manager now from the PootlePress store and get the settings for these 5 beautifully simple menus included[/box] More and more of your traffic is coming from mobile devices. So why leave your mobile menu the way it comes with Canvas – plain and boring? The reason

WooThemes have launched a lovely new free plugin called Icons for Features (available in the WordPress repository) that works with their very popular Features plugin. The Features plugin gives you another post type (like a page or a blog post) and also a nice widget to add features onto a widgetized

[box style=”info”]Logo Inside Nav has now been included as a feature inside Menu Customizer! Therefore it is no longer for sale. Check out Menu Customizer for Canvas.[/box] There are lots of things we want to do with WooThemes Canvas (and WordPress), but sometimes just don’t have the time, skills or

Removing the WooThemes Logo in the footer of Canvas is one of those things that is really easy to do, but really hard if you can’t find the option. We know from training lots people that this one is a frustration. Some people even resort to code, when you can do it in a few easy clicks. Here’s how t

[box style=”info”]Papple is no longer for sale as a separate plugin. However you can use Menu Customizer to create a menu just like it. Check out Menu Customizer for Canvas.[/box] It is fair to say that at PootlePress we are fans of most things Apple related. So when we were dreaming up ideas for Ca

Member-only tutorial: A ‘squeeze’ landing page focusses your users on taking the action you want them to take by removing unnecessary choices and distractions. In other words, remove many of the links! This tutorial shows you how to create a squeeze landing page in WooThemes Canvas.

n this tutorial I show you how to create this stylish and clean photography website using Canvas and the new Projects plugin from WooThemes.

[box style=”info”]Center logo and menus is now a feature inside Menu Customizer! Therefore it is no longer for sale as a separate plugin. Check out Menu Customizer for Canvas.[/box] One question we get asked a lot is “how can I easily center my logo and menus in Canvas?” Well, before now it would re

We launched Canvas Extensions with Sticky Nav and straight away you started asking us about how to make the whole header area, including the logo sticky. Well – this is how! In this 5 minute demo of our newest Canvas Extension (imaginatively titled) Sticky Header, you can see how easy it is to do th

This is a common request we see about the place on our Academy Support Forums and blog comments, so we decided to do a quick video tutorial for you. More more like this join the PootlePress Academy! Introduction Step 1 – the header widget area Step 2 – adding social icons Step 3 – take out unwated t

When we launched Canvas Extensions we asked you to vote on which extensions you want to see developed next. To my surprise (but not Jamie’s), Footers came out top: So we quickly got to work, planning out the best way to do this for you. Early feedback indicated a preference for as many options as po

[hr] Please share this tutorial: Tweet [hr] On one of our recent WordPress Xpress days we were challenged by a really creative design concept (specifically how to create a header, navigation and main image all to look like one stunning hero area). Luckily we know a thing or two about Canvas, so we w

Yesterday we launched our 22nd video course to the PootlePress Academy. This time we’re into e-commerce, or more specfically – WooCommerce. Superstore is a WooCommerce theme designed to cater for lots of products. It has infinite scroll on shop pages so your customers can view your entire shop catal

We’ve developed a new child theme for WooThemes Canvas especially for all you creative people out there. We call it Artists Canvas.   Artists Canvas will give your creative work the space it deserves. Check out this video walk-through for the main features: You can get Artists Canvas from the

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Below are 65 tips, tricks and CSS Tweaks to help you further customise the Canvas Theme from WooThemes. We will add further tweaks and tips to this post as we find them. If you have your own tweaks please let us know and we will add yours to the list.

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This week we release the menu pack for Woothemes Canvas. The Pootlepress menu pack (£15) lets you create beautiful menus with 1 click. Take a look at the video below to see how it works.

The Wooframework from Woothemes comes with some ‘out of the box’ tools such as the info box to help you design a great looking website. In this video tutorial I show you how to create a beautiful graduated background that you can easily reuse on your website.

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You can do so many cool things with Canvas without having to dive into any code. However, there are times when you’ll want to tweak Canvas and with that in mind, I’ve put together the following list of 30 useful CSS tweaks.