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Sneak preview – Canvas Page Builder [video]

We’ve been working hard at PootlePress on a major release for WooThemes Canvas users. Canvas Page Builder is a fork of a popular Page Builder by SiteOrigin. We’ve worked really hard to make this work beautifully for Canvas. Canvas Page Builder works with widgets. We’ve created a few new widgets that make page building super-fast…
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Get a Pinterest style ‘Masonry’ effect for WooThemes Canvas (with Infinite Scroll)

You can buy Masonry Blog now for $19 from the PootlePress store When we started Canvas Extensions, one of the first ones we wanted to develop was a Masonry extension. It was one of the first ideas on our ideas board – and one of the most popular! It works with the Magazine Template in…
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Video Tutorial – How to replace the drop down fields on your WooCommerce variable products with Swatches

Today we built a WooCommerce website where we needed to have the option of visual Swatches instead of the standard variable products drop down. Luckily the Variation Swatches and Photos WooCommerce Extension allows you to add lovely looking swatches ‘out of the box’. In the following 3 video tutorials I show you how to implement swatches on your…
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New PootlePress Academy Tutorial – CSS for Beginners

Most of the posts we get around themes in our PootlePress Academy support forums can be solved by tweaking CSS. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and it defines how all the elements on your website are displayed. CSS is easy, but it is code and can therefore be a bit scary. That’s why we…
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Video Tutorial – Blow your visitors away with an auto-playing looped full-width homepage video [for WooThemes Canvas]

[box type=”info”]Please note: Featured Video for Slider for WooThemes Canvas is no longer for sale.[/box] Have you seen the latest trend for homepage videos that auto-play in a full width slider? If not, check out Zendesk and PayPal (which do at the time of writing). We think this is a seriously nice effect and we…
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How to create a contextual header effect in WooThemes Canvas

One of the limitations in Canvas is that you can only set one header background image for the whole site. This severely limits the design, look and feel of Canvas sites. In this free 7-step video tutorial we show how to create a contextual header, where the header background images are inspired by individual page content – producing a…
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100 WooCommerce Tips and Tricks

Here’s 100 WooCommerce tips and tricks. Please note: we are still working on this post and have tested about 75% of the tips below. We will continue to improve this resource over the coming days and weeks WooCommerce is fast becoming the most popular e-commerce software on the web. We’ve started getting into it in…
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Awesome Icons for your WooThemes Canvas Menus

Font Awesome Menus has now been included as a feature inside Menu Customizer! Therefore it is no longer for sale. Being a small company run by a couple of British guys, we often debate the overuse of the word ‘awesome’. To us it sounds very American (nothing wrong with that) and it seems as though…
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Make Mind-blowing Mobile Menus for WooThemes Canvas – new Canvas Extension

Purchase Mobile Menu Manager now from the PootlePress store and get the settings for these 5 beautifully simple menus included More and more of your traffic is coming from mobile devices. So why leave your mobile menu the way it comes with Canvas – plain and boring? The reason most people leave it this way,…
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Video Tutorial – Easy Icons for WooThemes Features

WooThemes have launched a lovely new free plugin called Icons for Features (available in the WordPress repository) that works with their very popular Features plugin. The Features plugin gives you another post type (like a page or a blog post) and also a nice widget to add features onto a widgetized page or homepage. Icons for…
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Video – How to center a logo inside the navigation for WooThemes Canvas

Logo Inside Nav has now been included as a feature inside Menu Customizer! Therefore it is no longer for sale. There are lots of things we want to do with WooThemes Canvas (and WordPress), but sometimes just don’t have the time, skills or patience! Centering the logo inside the primary navigation is not possible without…
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How to remove WooThemes Logo in footer – Canvas

Removing the WooThemes Logo in the footer of Canvas is one of those things that is really easy to do, but really hard if you can’t find the option. We know from training lots people that this one is a frustration. Some people even resort to code, when you can do it in a few…
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Video – How to create a majestic menu like Apple.com with WooThemes Canvas

It is fair to say that at PootlePress we are fans of most things Apple related. So when we were dreaming up ideas for Canvas Extension menus, it wasn’t long before we thought of Apple.com But took us ages to think of a name for it… Apootle… Poople… iPoo… but we finally settled on Papple…
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Video tutorial – How to create a Squeeze Landing Page in WooThemes Canvas

Member-only tutorial: A ‘squeeze’ landing page focusses your users on taking the action you want them to take by removing unnecessary choices and distractions. In other words, remove many of the links! This tutorial shows you how to create a squeeze landing page in WooThemes Canvas.
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Video tutorial: How to create an elegant Portfolio website using Canvas and Projects from WooThemes

n this tutorial I show you how to create this stylish and clean photography website using Canvas and the new Projects plugin from WooThemes.
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How to center your logo & menus in WooThemes Canvas [video tutorial]

[box style=”info”]Center logo and menus is now a feature inside Menu Customizer! Therefore it is no longer for sale as a separate plugin. Check out Menu Customizer for Canvas.[/box] One question we get asked a lot is “how can I easily center my logo and menus in Canvas?” Well, before now it would require a…
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How to create a sticky header in WooThemes Canvas

We launched Canvas Extensions with Sticky Nav and straight away you started asking us about how to make the whole header area, including the logo sticky. Well – this is how! In this 5 minute demo of our newest Canvas Extension (imaginatively titled) Sticky Header, you can see how easy it is to do this…
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VelocityPage video walkthrough: the new ‘drag and drop’ page layout WordPress plugin

[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”pootlepress” ][hr] Do you have problems laying out your text and images in your WordPress pages? If so there is a new WordPress plugin called VelocityPage that you should take a look at. It’s early stages for VelocityPage – the version we demo below is 0.9.2 – but early impressions are really encouraging.…
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How to add social icons & contact info to the header in WooThemes Canvas

This is a common request we see about the place on our Academy Support Forums and blog comments, so we decided to do a quick video tutorial for you. More more like this join the PootlePress Academy! Introduction Step 1 – the header widget area Step 2 – adding social icons Step 3 – take…
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Want fantastic footers? Meet our newest Canvas Extension… [demo video]

When we launched Canvas Extensions we asked you to vote on which extensions you want to see developed next. To my surprise (but not Jamie’s), Footers came out top: So we quickly got to work, planning out the best way to do this for you. Early feedback indicated a preference for as many options as…
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