Last week we released a major update to our WooCommerce Storefront Blocks plugin. Storefront Blocks lets you customize the WooCommerce Shop page, Category page, home page, and showcase your products in your blog. Storefront Blocks uses the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) and contains 10 premium WooCommerce Blocks, including grids, carousels, sliders, masonry blocks and more.…
Introduction Would you like to have 100% control over your WooCommerce Related Products section on the WooCommerce Product Page? WooCommerce Related Products and upsells will normally show up automatically under your WooCommerce Single Product pages, based on your WooCommerce Product categories or tags (read more here). These are slightly different from cross-sells, which appear on…
Last week we released an update to our WooBuilder Blocks plugin that contains a brand new Block called the WooCommerce Cover Block. WooBuilder Blocks lets you customize the WooCommerce Product Page. The WooCommerce Cover Block works in a similar way to the existing Cover Block found in the WordPress block editor, however we automatically grab…
Our Storefront Pro plugin comes with a five free pre-built designs that you can import into your storefront theme site in a single click. We call them skins and you can see them below. Sometimes you may want to revert your storefront site to the default appearance. Note! We’ve made this a two step process…
WooBuilder Blocks is our WordPress plugin that lets you customize the WooCommerce Single Product Page using the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg). This article explains how you can create Templates and then apply your Templates to multiple WooCommerce Products. You can also use your Templates on a ‘per product’ basis. Let’s dive right in 🙂 How…
Last week we released a new version of our WooCommerce Product Table plugin. Now you can choose which Product Fields to include and change their order Full support for variable products Here’s a little look at how it works. Choose which WooCommerce Product Fields to show Select which WooCommerce products to show Or select WooCommerce…
Last week I started experimenting with adding structured content to some of my posts and pages and the results have been really good. If you go to Google and search for ‘beginners seo course’ you’ll see that pootlepress now has some additional expandable content tabs under our normal search listing. Here’s a picture Over the…
Wondering how to A/B split test your WooCommerce product page? You can do it in just 3 simple steps – fully explained in our WordPress tutorial…
Here’s something I’ve never done before…a beginners Guide to building a WooCommerce Storefront Website from start to finish.
This WooThemes Storefront tutorial shows you how to get complete control over the home page of your website with no coding.
We’ve recently released an update to WooBuilder Blocks that includes a brand new block called the Product Images Carousel Block. WooBuilder Blocks makes it easy to customize the WooCommerce Product Page. The Product Images Carousel Block makes it easy to showcase your WooCommerce Products in a beautiful Carousel. It automatically grabs your main product image…
Our WooBuilder Blocks plugin got some great coverage yesterday on the WP Ecommerce show podcast. WordPress and WooCommerce guru Chris Lema discussed how WooBuilder Blocks uses the new Gutenberg Editor so that WooCommerce Store owners can customize the WooCommerce Product Page. You can listen to the whole podcast here, or listen to the WooBuilder Blocks…
We’ve just launched a website called topfiftywp.com that shows you the most downloaded WordPress plugins per day. It also shows you the top 50 plugins and themes by active installs (sorted by rating) Hopefully you’ll find this really useful to discover not only the best WordPress plugins but also those plugins that are up and…
This tutorial shows you how to build an awesome One Page WordPress Website using the new WordPress Block Builder Editor. If you would like to see a live example of what you will learn, click here to see an awesome one page website that only took 30 minutes to build using just the WordPress Block…
WooBuilder blocks is a WordPress plugin that lets you customize the WooCommerce Single Product Page for a single product, a category of products, or for all your products. It’s built to be super fast and lean, with no Page Builder required Today we released version 2.5 of WooBuilder Blocks. It’s a major release that contains the following improvements New…
Here’s a free plugin to align your WooCommerce Storefront Menu Right Would you like lots more customization options for the Storefront theme? If you want to fully customize the Storefront Theme then checkout our Storefront Pro Plugin ($49)
Here’s a free Blank Chlid theme for WooCommerce Storefront. This is great if you are looking to add your own css or php functions. Would you like lots more customization options for the Storefront theme? If you want to fully customize the Storefront Theme then checkout our Storefront Pro Plugin ($49)
Coming soon to WooBuilder Here’s a sneak peek video of how the new WooBuilder Templating system is going to work. I hope to release this in the next two weeks.
With the release of WordPress 5 comes a brand new editor. The new editor , commonly known as the Block editor or the Gutenberg editor gives you many extra customization and layout options when building your wordpress ecommerce website. In the tutorial below, I’ll show you how to build an awesome WooCommerce website using the…
I’ve just confirmed some new WordPress training course dates for March, April and May. The WordPress training course runs in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Cheltenham and Edinburgh. WordPress training course dates
A couple of days ago we were informed by the team at Freemius of an important security update. Freemius handle licence management for our plugins. Therefore we have released new versions of the following Pootlepress plugins, that include their security fix. Pagebuilder Pro – new version is 5.5.1.2 Storefront Pro – new version is 5.9.4.1 Storefront…
Here’s a video tutorial on 5 page effects that you can create using the new WordPress Block editor and our free Caxton Plugin. Caxton is a free collection of Blocks that makes it easy to create awesome WordPress pages. This tutorial uses our Shape Divider Block that comes with Caxton. The great thing about the…
I’m thrilled that the Guardian have confirmed dates for 2019 for their WordPress Masterclass series. This is the third year that I’ll be working with the Guardian to run these courses. They are always great fun, and they always sell out. The January course has already sold out, but we have other dates of May…
Our Caxton Shape Divider Block got an amazing review by WordPress founder Matt Mulleweg last week on the WP Tavern weekly podcast. Here’s the audio clip Audio Transcription Here’s the Question and Matt’s reply Question: Is there anything that people have built using Gutenberg that really impress you? Matt’s reply One of my current favourites…
Pootlepress had some great coverage at this years WordCamp US 2018 in Nashville. During Matt Mullengweg’s State of the Word speech our Caxton Shape Divider Block was featured. I travelled to Nashville to attend WordCamp US this year, so sitting in the audience whilst our Caxton plugin was featured was a great moment 🙂 Here’s…
With the release of WordPress version 5 came a brand new default 2019 Theme. The Twenty Nineteen theme features a great design and is lightweight and fast. I’ve been playing with the Twenty Nineteen Theme today whilst testing the next version of our Shape Divider Block, that is part of our Caxton plugin. They are…
The Shape Divider Block makes it easy to create beautiful transitions between your Gutenberg rows.
This week we released an update to our Storefront Blocks plugin that adds a new block called the Product Block. The Product Block let’s you customize the layout of WooCommerce products and then insert them anywhere. Here’s a few examples of how you might use the Product Block. Create full width and full height product…
We’ve recently released an update to Storefront Pro (version 5.9 and higher) that has new functionality to make your first (Gutenberg) block on a page sit flush under the navigation and menu of the Storefront Theme. Instructions Step 1 – Click on ‘Customize Page‘ in the Admin toolbar (make sure to click on ‘Customize Page‘…
Here’s a little tutorial on how to create a grid layout with tiles (and text) using the new Gutenberg Editor and our Caxton plugin. Video tutorial