About Me

Head of WordPress YouTube at Automattic | 100K+ YouTube Subscribers | Business Founder | Digital Strategist | WordPress Educator

Background:
As Head of WordPress YouTube at Automattic, I leverage my extensive experience in building online businesses and educating others about WordPress. With over 150,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel, I’ve established myself as a leading voice in the WordPress community.

My career spans board-level technical and commercial roles, including Managing Director at Pavilion Publishing Ltd and CTO at Documedia PLC. As the founder of Pootlepress, I’ve developed WordPress plugins used by thousands worldwide and trained over 5,000 individuals in WordPress over the past decade.

My expertise lies in digital strategy, online business development, and WordPress education.

Visit https://www.youtube.com/@jamiewp. Also, catch me on Twitter @pootlepress.

Our team
Our work
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Pootlepress was born 10 years ago. It’s a been a fantastic and fun journey so far. We’ve trained over 5000 people on WordPress in the past 10 years, and our plugins are used by thousands of customers worldwide. I also now run WordPress courses for The Guardian as part of their Digital Masterclass series.

You will also find me over on my growing YouTube channel.

Our leadership team

It’s been a privilege to work with some incredibly talented people over the past 10 years.

Shramee is our Lead Developer. Together we come up with the ideas, and develop all our products. We’re obsessed with crafting the finest WordPress themes and plugins. Shramee is based in Singapore. Here’s a pic of us together. He’s a genius!

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Where we are based

We are based in Cheltenham and Singapore.

Our work

We’re obsessed with WordPress – in a healthy way I hope – and are passionate about making WordPress easy for our customers.

We’ve always strived to do useful and interesting work and that’s still what drives us every day.

Our Caxton plugin was featured by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg in his keynote speech at WordCamp US in Nashville.

Our WordPress plugins

  • WooBuilder Blocks – make a better WooCommerce Product page and increase sales
  • Block Injector – dynamically inject Gutenberg Blocks anywhere in your website
  • Storefront Blocks – showcase your WooCommerce products beautifully
  • Storefront Pro – fully customize the design of the WooCommerce Storefront theme
  • Gutenberg Pro – add rocket boosters to the Gutenberg Block Editor
  • Caxton – create awesome page layouts using the Gutenberg block editor
  • Pagebuilder Pro – easy and powerful visual designer for WordPress pages, posts and products.
  • 18tags Pro – a plugin that adds ‘pro level’ design options to our free 18tags theme
  • Easy Smooth Scroll Links – adds scroll animation effects to page anchors, smooth scroll and more.
  • WooHoo Bar – a Notification Bar and Countdown Timer for Gutenberg and WooCommerce. 
  • Mobile Pages – create 100% unique mobile pages for Gutenberg

We are really really proud to have helped thousands of individuals, small organisations and also major brands.

Thank you very much for taking the time to pootle 🙂

ps i’m not very good at baking