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How to create a beautiful fullscreen Divi website with 5 simple tweaks

Here’s a simple tutorial on how to create a beautiful fullscreen website with the Divi Theme from Elegant Themes. This tutorial uses the free css plugin from Site Origin that can be downloaded here . I’ve also included all the CSS that you will need to reproduce this on your own websites. The CSS can…
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2.5D parallax effect tutorial – how to turn a static photo into a 2.5 D video

2.5 D is an exciting technique that you can apply to your photos. The great thing about this effect is that you can apply it to old photographs and bring them to life. When used in conjunction with our new free pootle page builder plugin 2.5D photos look really beautiful. To see how a 2.5D…
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Sneaky peak – pootle page builder one pager

Here’s a sneak peak of some functionality we are going to release in an upcoming pootle page builder add-on. The idea behind this is to make it incredibly easy to build a stunning smooth scrolling one pager WordPress website. We are aiming to have this available in September. We hope you like it. If you…
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Video tutorial – How to add a Wedding List to your WooCommerce store

Adding a wedding wishlist to your WordPress store is now super easy. Last week, whilst building a WooCommerce website on one of our WordPress Xpress days, I got asked to add a wedding list. Here’s a quick 3 minute tutorial that shows you how to add a wedding list to your WooCommerce store. This tutorial…
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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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WooThemes Storefront page builder child theme

The WooThemes Storefront theme adds a bottom margin below the header which can be a little inconvenient when designing your website. We noticed this particularly when using our new pootle page builder. To illustrate this, below are 2 pictures. The left picture shows the standard Storefront theme. Notice the big white space below the black header and…
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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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Try out (the all new) pootle page builder [in beta]

We have just released our new flagship product – pootle page builder – in beta. If you didn’t see the sneak preview video, then check it out. A few notes before you get stuck in: 1. This is the very first beta version and while we have tested it as much as we can internally,…
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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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Meet your new pootle page builder [sneak peek video]

When we first launched our Page Builder for WooThemes Canvas, we were blown away with how popular it was. Overnight we had a fully fledged plugin business on our hands! Fast forward a year and we’re ready to show you the next evolution of our thinking. pootle page builder. pootle page builder has the following features:…
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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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50 Beautiful WooThemes Canvas websites [free ebook] now available

PootlePress has brought together 50 beautiful Canvas websites. We’d like to thank our customers for submitting 95 websites to be considered for inclusion in this ebook. It was a really difficult task narrowing these down to just 50 as all the sites were of a very high standard. We hope you find inspiration for your…
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