Category: Video Tutorials
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Video tutorial – How to create a Pinterest style masonry grid in your WordPress pages
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 🙂
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5 really useful things you can do with shortcodes ultimate and pootle page builder
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…
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Video tutorial – How to add a parallax effect in WordPress in just 1 minute
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.
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Video tutorial – How to add a video background to a WordPress page
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…
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Video tutorial – How to add posts into any of your WordPress pages
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…
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How to create a blog design like WooThemes and Medium.com using WooThemes Canvas
We want to join with our friends across the atlantic to celebrate Independence Day this weekend, so here is a new tutorial inspired by our ‘special relationship’ 😉 Blog posts with full width thumbnail images with titles on top… It seems that this design concept is very popular at the moment, with many blogs adopting…
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Menu Customizer for WooThemes Canvas gets even more mind-blowing [video walk-through]
Menu Customizer 2 beta release is now in customer accounts. It will be rolled out to customer sites for plugin update notifications in stages over the next few weeks. Great products evolve. It all started with our Menu Pack for Canvas back in 2013. This was 5 beautiful menus in one extension. Then we had…
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WooCommerce Customizer for WooThemes Canvas [Sneak preview video]
One of the things we love about Canvas is that it is developed by WooThemes, who also develop WooCommerce, so you know their going to play nicely together. Having said this, there are a lot customizations we do with Canvas to make shops look unique for our customers. So we thought we’d develop an extension…
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How to make a sticky footer in WooThemes Canvas in 10 minutes
Footer Widget Manager was one of the first Canvas Extensions we released and it’s been really popular. So it’s nice to be able to give it an update and add a feature that many of you have asked us about – sticky footers! Like all our Canvas Extensions, we want them to blend in Canvas…
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Remove WordPress Customizer sections easily
Want to hide or remove WordPress Customizer sections? Us too. This great post by Tom McFarlin (profesional WordPress developer) got us thinking. We too have got super excited about the possibilities of the WordPress Customizer. Maybe a little too excited. We agree with Tom that there will very soon be – if not already – too…
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Go mobile-first with Mobile Menu Customizer 2 for WooThemes Canvas – video tutorial
In September 2014 mobile traffic to retail websites overtook desktop traffic for the first time ever, rising to 52 per cent of all traffic. Source. We released Mobile Menu Manager last year because we know a lot of you are focussed on your mobile responsive sites. We’ve listened to some of the features you wanted…
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How to build a website like Strava with WooThemes Canvas [Video]
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…
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WooThemes Storefront Tutorial and walkthrough [video]
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…
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Replace the Add to cart button on the WooCommerce shop page
This was SOOO frustrating! I couldn’t find the documentation for this anywhere. I finally figured it out and so I wanted to share it with you. This is if you want to replace the Add to cart button on the WooCommerce product archive page (shop page) with a normal button that links to the single…
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5 lovely menus made in one afternoon with Menu Customizer (& 5 cups of tea)
You may know that in England we drink a LOT of tea. These menus were all created in one afternoon with our newest plugin Menu Customizer for WooThemes Canvas. The main thing I needed (other than Menu Customizer) was a tea break between each one to keep me going. So here they are… 5 menus…
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10 Canvas Page Builder and Page Customizer tips and tricks (now 13)
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…
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How to get cool social icons in your Top Nav [WooThemes Canvas – video]
Top Nav Manager and Font Awesome Menus have now been included as features inside Menu Customizer! Therefore it is no longer for sale. Check out Menu Customizer for Canvas. Lately we’ve been working really hard to make all our Canvas Extensions play nicely together. What’s been really cool, is thinking around what can be done…
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How to create long scrolling pages with full width rows with Page Customizer & Page Builder for WooThemes Canvas
We have been hard at work developing our new extension Page Customizer which gives you the ability to have page level control in Canvas. Options include full width pages, background images, background colors, hiding elements and mobile options too. Not only this but you can also set these options site-wide and then turn them off…
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Video demo of a fully customisable WooCommerce landing page built with Canvas Page Builder
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…
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How to get a horizontal sub-menu in WooThemes Canvas [video tutorial]
Please note: this plugin is no longer for sale. Our new Canvas Extension, horizontal sub-menu allows you to change the default vertical drop-down menu to a much cleaner horizontal sub-menu. This is something that, until now, would have taken a considerable amount of time and CSS skill to achieve. It’s now 5 minutes work! As…