Author: Jamie Marsland
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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.
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Video Tutorial – How to replace the drop down fields on your WooCommerce variable products with Swatches
Today we built a WooCommerce website where we needed to have the option of visual Swatches instead of the standard variable products drop down. Luckily the Variation Swatches and Photos WooCommerce Extension allows you to add lovely looking swatches ‘out of the box’. In the following 3 video tutorials I show you how to implement swatches on your…
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New PootlePress Academy Tutorial – CSS for Beginners
Most of the posts we get around themes in our PootlePress Academy support forums can be solved by tweaking CSS. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and it defines how all the elements on your website are displayed. CSS is easy, but it is code and can therefore be a bit scary. That’s why we…
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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.
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VelocityPage video walkthrough: the new ‘drag and drop’ page layout WordPress plugin
[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”pootlepress” ][hr] Do you have problems laying out your text and images in your WordPress pages? If so there is a new WordPress plugin called VelocityPage that you should take a look at. It’s early stages for VelocityPage – the version we demo below is 0.9.2 – but early impressions are really encouraging.…
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Video tutorial: How to create a beautiful hero concept in WooThemes Canvas
[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 were able…
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How to add Infinite Scroll to WooThemes Canvas in 2 simple steps
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [pinterest count=”horizontal” float=”left”][google_plusone size=”standard” float=”left” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”][divider_flat]With Infinite Scroll activated your page will automatically load new posts as your reader scrolls down. It’s particularly useful when you have lots of content. Your content will become more sticky because your reader doesn’t have to click any…
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5 free Child Themes for WooThemes Canvas
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [pinterest count=”horizontal” float=”left”][google_plusone size=”standard” float=”left” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”][divider_flat]We’ve just released 5 free Child Themes for WooThemes Canvas. [box]What is a WordPress Child Theme? A WordPress child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality of another theme, called the parent theme. Child theme allows you…
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Birmingham WordPress training course confirmed for 25th November, 2013.
We’ve just confirmed our first Birmingham WordPress training course for Monday 25th November, at the Ramada Hotel, just 2 minutes walk from Birmingham New Street Station. The ‘Learn WordPress in 1 day course‘ costs £95 + vat and if you would like see the full agenda and book a place you can book online via…
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Top 100 WordPress beginners FAQ’s
I’ve trained over 1500 WordPress beginners in the last 2 years on our WordPress training courses. Over that time I’ve been asked many questions about WordPress. Here are 100 of them. 1) What’s the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org? WordPress.com is a commercial website run by a company called Automattic. Automattic is actually run by…
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WooThemes Canvas online Masterclass – $75 per person, Thursday 17th October, 6-8pm GMT
I’ve had quite a few requests recently to run an online WooThemes Canvas Theme Masterclass. So on October 17th, 6pm-8pm (GMT), I will be running our first virtual WooThemes Canvas Masterclass. The cost for the Masterclass is $75 per person and will cover all you need to know so you can build a great looking website with…
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London WordPress Training Courses confirmed for 23rd September and the 21st October, 2013
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [pinterest count=”horizontal” float=”left”][google_plusone size=”standard” float=”left” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”][divider_flat] We’ve just confirmed new Autumn dates for our next 2 London WordPress training courses for the 23rd September and the 21st October. Full details of our ‘Learn WordPress in 1 day course’ can be found here. But here…
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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.
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50 testimonials (via Twitter) for Pootlepress WordPress training courses
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [pinterest count=”horizontal” float=”left”][google_plusone size=”standard” float=”left” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”][divider_flat]Here are 50 lovely testimonials from happy Pootlepress customers who have attended one of our WordPress training courses. We provide Group WordPress training courses in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Cardiff, Cheltenham and Exeter, Private WordPress training courses, and Online WordPress…
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New London Beginners WordPress training courses confirmed for 15th & 16th July, 2013
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [pinterest count=”horizontal” float=”left”][google_plusone size=”standard” float=”left” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”][divider_flat]We’ve just confirmed 2 new dates for our Learn WordPress in 1 day beginners London WordPress training course for the 15th & 16th July in Central London. Our Learn WordPress in 1 day course will give you the knowledge and…
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The Pootlepress Academy now has 400 members!
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [pinterest count=”horizontal” float=”left”][google_plusone size=”standard” float=”left” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”][divider_flat]Yesterday the 400th member joined the Pootlepress Academy. New members are now signing up at a rate of over 50 a month, and are joining from all round the world. It’s incredibly exciting to see the Academy growing…
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Buddypress Video: A quick look a some of cool features coming in 1.7
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [pinterest count=”horizontal” float=”left”][google_plusone size=”standard” float=”left” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”][divider_flat]The new version of Buddypress is due out soon and after playing with the Beta for half a day I can say with some confidence that it’s a huge improvement over previous versions. In the video below I…
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Video walkthrough: Create great looking Google maps visualisations with your own data
Google have just released a Beta of Google Maps Engine Lite. This enables you to create your own data / map visualisations by uploading your own data. It’s very easy to use and below I show you a quick demo.
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Pootlepress Video interview with WooThemes Matty Cohen – Product Manager and Senior Developer
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [pinterest count=”horizontal” float=”left”][google_plusone size=”standard” float=”left” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”][divider_flat]Matty Cohen is Product Manager and Senior Developer at Woothemes. His technology vision has helped guide WooThemes to their current position as the number one WordPress theme and plugin development company (…and he also helped us develop the…
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Pootlepress Video Interview with Paul Gibbs, Lead Buddypress Developer
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [pinterest count=”horizontal” float=”left”][google_plusone size=”standard” float=”left” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”][divider_flat]We are huge fans of the BuddyPress plugin here at Pootlepress. Version 1.7 – coming very soon – promises amongst other things full theme compatibility with almost all existing WordPress themes. This will be a huge for BuddyPress…
