Category: WordPress
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3 great looking WordPress Xpress websites
We’ve been really busy in the last few weeks and below are some of our latest WordPress Xpress websites.
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SEO and WordPress tutorial now available on the Pootlepress Academy
Today we release our latest Pootlepress Academy tutorial ‘SEO and WordPress’. This tutorial teaches you how to optimise your WordPress website so that you get the best possible results in Google.
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How to get BBPress forums working with Woothemes Canvas
Unfortunately a recent update of Woothemes Canvas caused a problem with BBPress. Namely BBPress no longer displays properly and is broken. However there is a simple fix and below I detail how to get both Canvas and BBPress working nicely together.
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Welcome to the new Academy ‘tips and tricks’ section
This is a new section for Pootlepress Academy members. We’ll use it to update you with smaller tutorials and WordPress tips, tricks and news. If there are any specific tips and tricks you would like us to cover – or that you have discovered yourself – please get in touch and let us know by…
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Learn how to build a Business Directory with WordPress
Our latest Pootlepress Academy tutorial teaches you ‘step by step’ how to build a great looking Business Directory. It uses the brilliant Listings theme from Woothemes. The Listings theme is our favorite way to build a Business Directory with WordPress.
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Celebrating 50 Pootlepress Academy members with a brand new Woothemes tutorial
Exciting times at Pootlepress HQ. Yesterday our 50th member joined the Pootlepress Academy and today we release our latest tutorial based on the brilliant Whitelight theme from Woothemes. The Woothemes Whitelight theme tutorial includes everything you need to know to build a great looking site for your business or organisation.
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Woothemes Whitelight tutorial to be released on the 28th March
We are busy putting the finishing touches to our latest WordPress e-learning tutorial. This will be based on the brilliant Whitelight theme from Woothemes and will be available from March 28th for all Pootlepress Academy members. Whitelight is one of our favourite WordPress themes and includes a fully responsive design, featured slider, custom homepage, optional…
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Some pics from our latest WordPress training course in Cheltenham
Here are some pictures from our latest WordPress training course that we held in Cheltenham yesterday. We had a great day, with a great group.
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2 example WordPress video tutorials from the Pootlepress Academy
Feedback to the Pootlepress Academy has been very very positive so I thought I would share a few example tutorials 🙂
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11 lovely new WordPress training customer testimonials
We work really hard to make sure our course attendees get the most out of our WordPress training courses and here are some testimonials from courses that we have run in the last couple of months.
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Woothemes Canvas Masterclass tutorial now available on the Pootlepress Academy
We are thrilled to announce that our latest WordPress video tutorial is now available on the Pootlepress Academy. The Woothemes Canvas Masterclass will teach you how to build a brilliant website using the Canvas theme framework.
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Learn how to build your own Online Shop with WordPress
We have just released our latest course on the Pootlepress Academy. This course teaches you step by step how to build your very own online shop with WordPress. To see a live example of what you can build with just a couple of hours training take a look at www.pootlepress-store.co.uk. This tutorial uses WooCommerce, the…
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Websites our customers have built
It’s great to see the results of our WordPress training courses, and we have just set up a Customer Showcase section on Pootlepress to feature websites built by our customers. If you would like to be included in this list, please email 50 words and the url of your website to me at jamiemarsland@pootlepress.co.uk.
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bbPress forum tutorial now available on the Pootlepress Academy
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.
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Learn WordPress online with the Pootlepress Academy
I’m thrilled to announce my first e-learning course ‘WordPress Essentials’ is now available via our shiny new Pootlepress Academy. The ‘WordPress Essentials‘ course includes a walk-through of common tasks in WordPress, from installing WordPress onto a self-hosted site, to tutorials on creating content (pages, posts, and widgets), inserting pictures and videos, installing and using plugins,…
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Manchester ‘Learn WordPress in 1 day’ training course: Some pictures of the day
Here are a couple of pictures from yesterday’s WordPress group training day in Manchester. This is our last course in 2011, but new courses for Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Cheltenham are now available. (read more)
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Some statistics that show how WordPress worldwide usage continues to grow..and grow..and grow!
A quick list of some of the brands Pootlepress has trained in 2011 include Yell, The Police Federation, Best Western Hotels, Age Concern, Directgov, Devon County Council, Hackney Council, Wandsworth Council, The Bath Film Festival, and Uniliver. (read more)
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Some lovely PR for Pootlepress from Woothemes
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).
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If you are in a ‘low, dark and damp place’ with your website, then Pootlepress can help!
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…
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Learn WordPress online with the Pootlepress Academy
I am busy putting the final touches to our first WordPress e-learning video. This will be available pre-Christmas and is based on my ‘learn WordPress in 1 day‘ training course. I have trained over 300 people on WordPress in 2011 and have designed this course so that you don’t need any technical knowledge to be…