WooThemes Canvas tutorials
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.
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]
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
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
50 Beautiful WooThemes Canvas websites [free ebook] now available
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
Submit your WooThemes Canvas website [to be included in our free ebook]
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
7 new features: Canvas Page Customizer 1.3 released
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
7 reasons why Canvas Page Builder 2 is going to make you happy [sneaky peek]
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
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
New Canvas Extension – Menu Customizer [Preview Video]
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
How to get cool social icons in your Top Nav [WooThemes Canvas – video]
How to create long scrolling pages with full width rows with Page Customizer & Page Builder for WooThemes Canvas
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
Video demo of a fully customisable WooCommerce landing page built with Canvas Page Builder
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
5 ways Page Builders are going to radically shake up WordPress!
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
How to get a horizontal sub-menu in WooThemes Canvas
Sneak preview – Canvas Page Customizer
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
When Dave the Incredibly Talented Designer met Canvas Page Builder
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 dead… long live Sticky Header (2)!
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
Full width rows with customizable backgrounds for Canvas Page Builder [sneak preview]
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
Video tutorial – How to create a magazine layout like the New York Times for your website
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.
Sneak preview – 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
Get a Pinterest style ‘Masonry’ effect for WooThemes Canvas (with Infinite Scroll)
Video Tutorial – Blow your visitors away with an auto-playing looped full-width homepage video [for WooThemes Canvas]
How to create a contextual header effect in WooThemes Canvas
Awesome Icons for your WooThemes Canvas Menus
Make Mind-blowing Mobile Menus for WooThemes Canvas – new Canvas Extension
Video Tutorial – Easy Icons for WooThemes Features
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
Video – How to center a logo inside the navigation for WooThemes Canvas
How to remove WooThemes Logo in footer – Canvas
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
Video – How to create a majestic menu like Apple.com with WooThemes Canvas
Video tutorial – How to create a Squeeze Landing Page in WooThemes Canvas
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.
Video tutorial: How to create an elegant Portfolio website using Canvas and Projects from WooThemes
n this tutorial I show you how to create this stylish and clean photography website using Canvas and the new Projects plugin from WooThemes.
How to center your logo & menus in WooThemes Canvas
How to create a sticky header in WooThemes Canvas
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
How to add social icons & contact info to the header in WooThemes Canvas
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
Want fantastic footers? Meet our newest Canvas Extension… [demo video]
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
Video tutorial: How to create a beautiful hero concept in WooThemes Canvas
New video tutorial – Superstore by WooThemes
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
Introducing Artists Canvas – a theme for artists, designers & photographers
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
How to add Infinite Scroll to WooThemes Canvas in 2 simple steps
5 free Child Themes for WooThemes Canvas
65 tips, tricks and CSS tweaks for WooThemes Canvas
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.
Pootlepress Video interview with WooThemes Matty Cohen – Product Manager and Senior Developer
Video tutorial: How to create a single page WordPress website
Announcing the Pootlepress menu pack for Woothemes Canvas
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.
Video tutorial: How to create beautiful ‘Apple like’ graduated backgrounds on your Woothemes website
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.
Video tutorial: The best way to upgrade a WordPress theme framework
30 simple (but useful) WooThemes Canvas CSS tweaks
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.