Category: WordPress
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Introduction to Gutenberg, the WordPress Block Editor (Webinar Recording)
Here’s a video recording of my recent webinar series that I ran on the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) This is what I cover. Why WordPress built Gutenberg Gutenberg demonstration Gutenberg best features What are Blocks Plugins and Gutenberg Why you should start using Gutenberg sooner rather than later An introduction to complex page design with Gutenberg
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Learn WordPress with The Guardian and Pootlepress
The Guardian and Pootlepress have joined forces to launch the ‘How to create a WordPress website in one day’ masterclass, live and online. The next course is on Tuesday 11th August and starts at 10am (British Summer Time). If you would like to read more about the course click here. Course dates Sold out –…
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Sneak Peek Video of our upcoming Product Card Block for WooCommerce Stores (and Gutenberg)
Here’s a sneak peek of our upcoming Product Card Block. The Product Card Block is part of our Storefront Blocks plugin. Storefront Blocks is a collection of 11 premium WooCommerce Blocks, that makes it easy to customize your WooCommerce Shop Pages, Category Pages or showcase your products in any page or post . The Product…
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WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) Question and Answer Webinar – Tuesday, June 16th, 4pm (British Summer Time)
Following on from my three webinars (click on the link to see a recording of each webinar) on the new WordPress Block Editor, I’m running a free 45 minute Question and Answer webinar on June 16th at 4pm (British summer time). See you next week 🙂 Jamie
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WooCommerce Product Filters, WooCommerce Product Pagination, and three new WooCommerce Blocks all included in Storefront Blocks version 2.5
Last week we released a major update to our WooCommerce Storefront Blocks plugin. Storefront Blocks lets you customize the WooCommerce Shop page, Category page, home page, and showcase your products in your blog. Storefront Blocks uses the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) and contains 10 premium WooCommerce Blocks, including grids, carousels, sliders, masonry blocks and more.…
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The WooCommerce Cover Block
Last week we released an update to our WooBuilder Blocks plugin that contains a brand new Block called the WooCommerce Cover Block. WooBuilder Blocks lets you customize the WooCommerce Product Page. The WooCommerce Cover Block works in a similar way to the existing Cover Block found in the WordPress block editor, however we automatically grab…
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The complete guide to using WooBuilder Blocks Templates
WooBuilder Blocks is our WordPress plugin that lets you customize the WooCommerce Single Product Page using the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg). This article explains how you can create Templates and then apply your Templates to multiple WooCommerce Products. You can also use your Templates on a ‘per product’ basis. Let’s dive right in 🙂 How…
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The new version of our Woocommerce Product Table Block lets you select Product fields and change their order (including variable product data)
Last week we released a new version of our WooCommerce Product Table plugin. Now you can choose which Product Fields to include and change their order Full support for variable products Here’s a little look at how it works. Choose which WooCommerce Product Fields to show Select which WooCommerce products to show Or select WooCommerce…
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How the WordPress Block Builder (Gutenberg) can improve with your SEO
Last week I started experimenting with adding structured content to some of my posts and pages and the results have been really good. If you go to Google and search for ‘beginners seo course’ you’ll see that pootlepress now has some additional expandable content tabs under our normal search listing. Here’s a picture Over the…
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How To Enable WordPress Split Test For WooCommerce Products?
Wondering how to A/B split test your WooCommerce product page? You can do it in just 3 simple steps – fully explained in our WordPress tutorial…
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Showcase your WooCommerce Product Images – WooBuilder Blocks gets a big update with WooCommerce Product Image Carousels and vertical product galleries
We’ve recently released an update to WooBuilder Blocks that includes a brand new block called the Product Images Carousel Block. WooBuilder Blocks makes it easy to customize the WooCommerce Product Page. The Product Images Carousel Block makes it easy to showcase your WooCommerce Products in a beautiful Carousel. It automatically grabs your main product image…
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Chris Lema discusses the Pootlepress WooBuilder Blocks plugin on the WP Ecommerce Show podcast
Our WooBuilder Blocks plugin got some great coverage yesterday on the WP Ecommerce show podcast. WordPress and WooCommerce guru Chris Lema discussed how WooBuilder Blocks uses the new Gutenberg Editor so that WooCommerce Store owners can customize the WooCommerce Product Page. You can listen to the whole podcast here, or listen to the WooBuilder Blocks…
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Introducing topfiftywp.com – our new website that shows the most downloaded WordPress plugins per day, and top 50 active installs for themes and plugins.
We’ve just launched a website called topfiftywp.com that shows you the most downloaded WordPress plugins per day. It also shows you the top 50 plugins and themes by active installs (sorted by rating) Hopefully you’ll find this really useful to discover not only the best WordPress plugins but also those plugins that are up and…
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How to build a One Page website with Gutenberg the WordPress Block Editor – from start to finish
This tutorial shows you how to build an awesome One Page WordPress Website using the new WordPress Block Builder Editor. If you would like to see a live example of what you will learn, click here to see an awesome one page website that only took 30 minutes to build using just the WordPress Block…
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Free Blank Child Theme for WooCommerce Storefront
Here’s a free Blank Chlid theme for WooCommerce Storefront. This is great if you are looking to add your own css or php functions. Would you like lots more customization options for the Storefront theme? If you want to fully customize the Storefront Theme then checkout our Storefront Pro Plugin ($49)
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How to build a WooCommerce website with WordPress Version 5 and the new Gutenberg Editor
With the release of WordPress 5 comes a brand new editor. The new editor , commonly known as the Block editor or the Gutenberg editor gives you many extra customization and layout options when building your wordpress ecommerce website. In the tutorial below, I’ll show you how to build an awesome WooCommerce website using the…
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The new WordPress Block Editor and 5 awesome page effects using the Shape Divider Block
Here’s a video tutorial on 5 page effects that you can create using the new WordPress Block editor and our free Caxton Plugin. Caxton is a free collection of Blocks that makes it easy to create awesome WordPress pages. This tutorial uses our Shape Divider Block that comes with Caxton. The great thing about the…
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The Guardian have confirmed 2019 dates for my WordPress Masterclass
I’m thrilled that the Guardian have confirmed dates for 2019 for their WordPress Masterclass series. This is the third year that I’ll be working with the Guardian to run these courses. They are always great fun, and they always sell out. The January course has already sold out, but we have other dates of May…
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The Caxton Shape Divider Block is featured on the WP Tavern Podcast featuring Matt Mullenweg
Our Caxton Shape Divider Block got an amazing review by WordPress founder Matt Mulleweg last week on the WP Tavern weekly podcast. Here’s the audio clip Audio Transcription Here’s the Question and Matt’s reply Question: Is there anything that people have built using Gutenberg that really impress you? Matt’s reply One of my current favourites…
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The Caxton Shape Divider Block is featured in Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word speech at WordCamp US 2018 in Nashville
Pootlepress had some great coverage at this years WordCamp US 2018 in Nashville. During Matt Mullengweg’s State of the Word speech our Caxton Shape Divider Block was featured. I travelled to Nashville to attend WordCamp US this year, so sitting in the audience whilst our Caxton plugin was featured was a great moment 🙂 Here’s…
