Author: Jamie Marsland

How to create a beautiful fullscreen website with WooThemes Storefront

Sep 22, 2015

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Jamie Marsland

in fullscreen, Pootle page builder, Storefront by WooThemes, Theme tutorials, Video Tutorials

Following on from my Elegant Themes Divi fullscreen website tutorial, here’s one for WooThemes Storehttps://www.pootlepress.com/2015/09/how-to-create-a-beautiful-fullscreen-divi-website/front. This tutorial uses the following plugins. Shortcodes Ultimate Pootle page builder Site origin CSS I’ve also used the free pootle page builder storefront child theme. Here’s the video tutorial, and below that is the custom css you will need. If…
How to create a beautiful fullscreen Divi website with 5 simple tweaks

Sep 18, 2015

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Jamie Marsland

in Divi theme, fullscreen, Pootle page builder, Theme tutorials, Video Tutorials

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 can…
2.5D parallax effect tutorial – how to turn a static photo into a 2.5 D video

Sep 8, 2015

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Jamie Marsland

in Pootle page builder, Video Tutorials

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…
Sneaky peak – pootle page builder one pager

Aug 14, 2015

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Jamie Marsland

in Pootle page builder, Storefront by WooThemes, Video Tutorials

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. If you…
Video tutorial – How to add a Wedding List to your WooCommerce store

Aug 14, 2015

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Jamie Marsland

in Video Tutorials, Woocommerce

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 tutorial…
Video tutorial – How to create a Pinterest style masonry grid in your WordPress pages

Aug 13, 2015

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Jamie Marsland

in Pootle page builder, Video Tutorials

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 pootle 🙂
5 really useful things you can do with shortcodes ultimate and pootle page builder

Aug 8, 2015

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Jamie Marsland

in Pootle page builder, Storefront by WooThemes, Video Tutorials

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 within your page builder pages…
WooThemes Storefront page builder child theme

Jul 24, 2015

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Jamie Marsland

in Pootle page builder, Storefront by WooThemes, WordPress

The WooThemes Storefront theme adds a bottom margin below the header which can be a little inconvenient when designing your website. We noticed this particularly when using our new pootle page builder. To illustrate this, below are 2 pictures. The left picture shows the standard Storefront theme. Notice the big white space below the black header and…
Video tutorial – How to add a parallax effect in WordPress in just 1 minute

Jul 21, 2015

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Jamie Marsland

in Pootle page builder, Video Tutorials

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

Jul 21, 2015

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Jamie Marsland

in Pootle page builder, Video Tutorials

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…
Video tutorial – How to add posts into any of your WordPress pages

Jul 21, 2015

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Jamie Marsland

in Pootle page builder, Video Tutorials

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 show you how…
How to build a website like Strava with WooThemes Canvas [Video]

Jan 10, 2015

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Jamie Marsland

in Canvas by WooThemes, Canvas Extensions, Video Tutorials, WordPress

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 I show…
50 Beautiful WooThemes Canvas websites [free ebook] now available

Jan 7, 2015

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Jamie Marsland

in Canvas by WooThemes, WordPress

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 inspiration for your…
Submit your WooThemes Canvas website [to be included in our free ebook]

Dec 16, 2014

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Jamie Marsland

in Canvas by WooThemes

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”]Submissions are now closed as the ebook has been…
WooThemes Storefront Tutorial and walkthrough [video]

Nov 27, 2014

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Jamie Marsland

in Storefront by WooThemes, Video Tutorials, Woocommerce

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 and running with WooThemes…
10 Canvas Page Builder and Page Customizer tips and tricks (now 13)

Jul 31, 2014

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Jamie Marsland

in Canvas Extensions, Video Tutorials

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 past couple of weeks, so I…
Video demo of a fully customisable WooCommerce landing page built with Canvas Page Builder

Jul 5, 2014

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Jamie Marsland

in Canvas Extensions, Video Tutorials

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…
5 ways Page Builders are going to radically shake up WordPress!

Jul 3, 2014

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Jamie Marsland

in Canvas by WooThemes, 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 flexibility and power of desktop…
Sneak preview – Canvas Page Customizer [video]

Jun 24, 2014

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Jamie Marsland

in Canvas Extensions, Video Tutorials

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 features that have been developed…
When Dave the Incredibly Talented Designer met Canvas Page Builder

Jun 23, 2014

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Jamie Marsland

in Canvas Extensions, Video Tutorials, WordPress

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 test it a…