• Jennifer Carello | Connecticut

    Customer name: Jennifer Carello From: Connecticut, US About Jennifer: Jennifer owns Techcare – a US-based, female run web development agency. She specializes in building easy to navigate, beautiful, and SEO optimized sites on the WordPress platform. Jennifer and Pootlepress: Jennifer likes to use Pootle Pagebuilder as it gives her the flexibility to style out Woothemes Canvas as she desires and create some…

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    Jennifer Carello | Connecticut
  • Bruno Freitas (aka Bfrema) | Brazil

    Customer name: Bruno Freitas (aka Bfrema) From: Brazil About Bfrema: Bfrema is a visual artist based on São Paulo, Brasil.  Bfrema and Pootlepress: Bfrema uses Woocommerce as a platform to sell his art and since he discovered Storefront Pro, he’s able to easily setup the visual of his store like a boss – meaning he can get back to living the dream.…

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    Bruno Freitas (aka Bfrema) | Brazil
  • Greg Collett | Canada

    Customer name: Greg Collett From: Canada About Greg:  Greg’s heart is on the open road, with his bike, touring North America.  Every now and then he takes a pit stop to design and build websites for nice clients. Greg and Pootlepress: Greg has been using Pootlepress plugins exclusively for the last couple of years.  He’s able…

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    Greg Collett | Canada
  • Storefront Pro version 3 now available

    Today we released Storefront Pro 3. This builds some extra cool features on top of those already released in previous version of Storefront Pro and is designed to work beautifully with WooThemes Storefront 2. If you would like to see detailed video walkthroughs of what’s possible with Storefront Pro click here to see 101 design customizations…

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    Storefront Pro version 3 now available
  • How to get full width sliders when using Meta slider and Pootle Page builder

      Meta slider is a very popular free Slider plugin for WordPress, and here’s a simple tweak that will enable you to have full width sliders when used with our free Pootle Page Builder plugin. Step 1 – Add the following css to your custom css Add the following CSS to your child theme. If…

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    How to get full width sliders when using Meta slider and Pootle Page builder
  • How to link from a photo to open a PDF

    Here’s a simple tutorial on how to link from a photo to open a PDF. I get this question asked quite quite a bit, so I thought a little video tutorial was in order. I hope you find it useful.

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    How to link from a photo to open a PDF
  • Why most businesses use WordPress – video intro of my talk to the British association for counselling and psychotherapy

    I recently gave a talk to the British association for counselling and psychotherapy as part of their Continuing Professional Development day.

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    Why most businesses use WordPress – video intro of my talk to the British association for counselling and psychotherapy
  • The most flexible theme we could build – introducing 18tags Pro

    Last week we released our 18tags Pro, our new premium WordPress theme. When designing 18tags Pro our main design consideration was to make it as flexible and easy to customize as possible, but also very fast and lean.

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    The most flexible theme we could build – introducing 18tags Pro
  • Running WordPress masterclasses with the Guardian

    A little news from Pootle HQ….we’re really pleased to be now working with the Guardian as part of their digital masterclass series. We ran our first WordPress Masterclass course in February and the next one will be run on the 10th May.

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    Running WordPress masterclasses with the Guardian
  • Introducing Wilson and Pootle

    A Monster tale…. Pootlepress is now 5 years old. Our purpose in life is to make running successful websites easier for our customers. We’ve been wanting to personalise the Pootlepress brand so that it tells our customers stories more effectively across social and digital media.

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    Introducing Wilson and Pootle
  • 18tags Pro sneak peek video – featuring the Pootle live editor

    Here’s a sneak peek video of the upcoming pro version of our WordPress theme 18tags. 18tags pro features our upcoming Pootle live editor (working title). The Pootle live editor is a lean, front end, drag and drop editor that makes it easy to create beautiful looking WordPress pages in minutes. The Pootle live editor will initially be launched as part of…

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    18tags Pro sneak peek video – featuring the Pootle live editor
  • How to set up WooCommerce Bookings for rental properties or hotel rooms

    WooCommerce Bookings is a very powerful extension that adds the ability for online booking.  Now WooThemes have built a free add-on to Bookings designed to make it easier to sell rooms and apartments. The following videos show you how to set up WooCommerce Bookings and the Accomodation Bookings extension. These video tutorials are using the…

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    How to set up WooCommerce Bookings for rental properties or hotel rooms
  • How to build these 10 beautiful homepage layouts in only a few minutes

    Creating compelling home page is important and fun – so here are 10 layout possibilities when using our free 18 tags theme. I’ve also provided a short explanation under each image on how each page was built.

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    How to build these 10 beautiful homepage layouts in only a few minutes
  • The Pootle live editor (now called the Pootle live designer) – sneak peek video

    Introducing the Pootle live editor Here’s a sneak peek video of our upcoming live editor for Pootle page builder. Our aim with The Live Editor is to make it much easier to create beautiful WordPress pages. We’re hoping to release the Live Editor in early February.  pootle live editor red from pootlepress on Vimeo. Customer…

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    The Pootle live editor (now called the Pootle live designer) – sneak peek video
  • Introducing 18 tags – our new free WordPress theme

    18 tags is our first WordPress theme. It’s highly customizable and we’ve tried to make it very easy to use. Below are some videos that show you some of the key elements of 18 tags. I’ll be putting some more in-depth tutorial together over the coming weeks. You can download 18 tags for free here. …

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    Introducing 18 tags – our new free WordPress theme
  • 5 free 2.5D parallax video backgrounds

    Video backgrounds can really bring your pages to life. Here’s 5 free 2.5D parallax video backgrounds that will work great on your website, especially if you are using the free pootle page builder plugin. These video backgrounds have been created from photos from unsplash.com. You are free to use them wherever you like. This effect…

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    5 free 2.5D parallax video backgrounds
  • Meet Storefront Pro 2

    Today we released Storefront Pro 2, an update for our WordPress plugin that let’s you customize almost every element of the WooThemes Storefront theme. Here’s what’s new in Storefront Pro 2, 2015-11-19 – Storefront Pro Version 2.0.0 New – Grid view on mobile store New – List view on mobile store New – Mobile store masonry…

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    Meet Storefront Pro 2
  • How to create a black friday cover page

    Here’s a short tutorial on how to create a black friday cover page for the WooThemes Storefront theme. This tutorial uses the following plugins, Pootle page builder Shortcodes Ultimate Storefront Pro   How to create a black friday cover page from pootlepress on Vimeo.

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    How to create a black friday cover page
  • Storefront Pro mobile store

    Here’s a sneak peek at some new functionality coming to Storefront Pro very soon. Mobile store gives your customers a richer, better and faster shopping experience when using the WooThemes Storefront theme – so you’ll sell more! Here’s a little video that shows you the mobile store option in Storefront Pro. If you have any…

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    Storefront Pro mobile store
  • WooThemes Storefront: How to add a hero video background

    This short tutorial shows you how to add a video hero to WooThemes Storefront. This tutorials uses the following free plugins, Pootle page builder Shortcodes ultimate

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    WooThemes Storefront: How to add a hero video background