Author: Jamie Marsland

We have just added a new WordPress tutorial to the Pootlepress Academy. This tutorial shows you how to add a Forum to your WordPress website in a few easy steps. bbPress is our favourite forum software for WordPress. It’s very simple to set up and has very rich functionality.

A couple of months ago I wrote a guest post over at Woothemes about our experience with their theme framework Canvas. The article generated us some great traffic (and business).

It’s always great to get positive feedback from attendees of our ‘Learn WordPress in 1 day‘ training course and I just love the email I received last week from DR. Ramesh Mehay after attending our Manchester training course.  It is a common sentiment from many of our attendees that WordPress is super easy to build…

Here’s a short video that shows you how to control the behaviour of your WordPress menu items. (tip: when viewing the Video below in full screen, make sure that HD is turned on)

Today I had a great day when I ran a ‘Learn WordPress in 1 day’ training course in Edinburgh and here are a couple of pictures from the day.

Here are some pictures from the WordPress training course we held in Farringdon, London yesterday. It was a great day with a very bright group! Our ‘learn WordPress in 1 day’ courses are now all sold out this year, but we running courses in London, Manchester, Cheltenham and Edinburgh in January. Details are here ‘Learn…

I spent a great day yesterday with Jo Bostock of Pause Consulting. Pause is a coaching & consultancy practice which specialises in individual, team and organisational development. For more information on WordPress Xpress visit our WordPress Xpress page. Here are some screen shots of the soon to be live new Pause website. Front page Clents…

Here are the latest attendee survey results from our WordPress group training course held on the 12th September in Cheltenham. I’m very pleased with the feedback. For more information, and booking details visit our WordPress training page. Highlights 100% rated the course ‘content’ good or very good 100% rated the course ‘presentation slides’ good or…

I’ve just confirmed a date for our first WordPress training course in Manchester. The course will run on the 14th October and will be held at the Rain Bar in central Manchester. It’s a great location and details and booking information can be found on our WordPress training page. A few pictures of our new…

I’ve just finished a great WordPress Xpress day with Amanda Stearn – and here she is talking about what we did. And here is a snapshot of what Amanda’s new website (soon to launch) will look like. If you would like more details take a look at our WordPress Xpress page.   [hr]

Here are our latest customer survey results from our ‘learn WordPress in a day’ training course run on the 15th August in Cheltenham. Highlights 100% rated the content of the WordPress training Good or Very Good 100% rated the presentation slides of the WordPress training Good or Very Good 100% rated the demo examples of…

We have just gone live with this WordPress and Buddypress website. BigSmallWorld.co.uk BigSmallWorld is local community website for residents of Wandsworth. Features: WordPress and Buddypress, Groups, Activity streams, Member profiles, Forums, Google analytics.

I have just confirmed new August and September dates for our next WordPress training courses. Dates are listed below. If you would like to book a place please visit our Learn WordPress in a day training page.

Rebecca Dakin (below) talks about our WordPress Xpress training course.

Gerry King runs a great website services company in Newcastle called http://www.i-netco.co.uk/. Earlier this year Gerry travelled from Newcastle to Cheltenham to attend our “Learn WordPress in 1 day” training course because he wanted to start producing WordPress websites for his clients. Last week Gerry’s first WordPress website went live at http://ryhopeinfantschool.org.uk/. Pootlepress  helped mentor…