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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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New Canvas Extension – Menu Customizer [Preview Video]
Menu Customizer has just got a major update! Check out Menu Customizer 2 for Canvas. We’ve been hard at work over the summer, both taking holidays with the family (sometimes hard work!) and developing new functionality for Canvas. In the coming months we have major upgrades for Page Customizer and Mobile Menu Manager, but today…
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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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5 ways Page Builders are going to radically shake up WordPress!
Jeff over at WPTavern has just published this post “WordPress Visual Page and Website Builders Make It Easy To Create Ugly Sites“. It’s a really interesting point Jeff makes. The same argument was made when desktop publishing arrived in full force in the 1980’s. Back then typesetters argued that the flexibility and power of desktop…
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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…
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Sneak preview – Canvas Page Customizer [video]
We’ve received lots of feedback that you would like greater control over your Canvas pages. So very soon we’ll be releasing the Page Customizer extension for WooThemes Canvas. Below are a couple of videos that walk you through some of the major features. Note: we’re also adding some cool mobile features that have been developed…
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When Dave the Incredibly Talented Designer met Canvas Page Builder
You may have already heard that we’re crazy excited about our new Canvas Page Builder extension. We think it’s truly ace. Spectacular. And dare we say it, awesome. Amongst our excitement, we managed to get a hold of ourselves long enough to think that maybe we’d better get someone else to road test it a…
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Sticky Header is dead… long live Sticky Header (2)!
Sticky Header is one of the most popular Canvas Extensions but it was also one of the first we developed. We’ve learn’t and lot since then, so when we realised that Sticky Header was causing more support requests than all the other Canvas Extensions put together, we decided to kill it and completely re-developed it…
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Full width rows with customizable backgrounds for Canvas Page Builder [sneak preview]
Rows. It’s all about the rows. As soon as we launched Canvas Page Builder, many of you told us that you’d love to be able to add background colours and background images to rows and have them go full width so you can create stunning long scolling full width sites with sections. We agreed (&…
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Video tutorial – How to create a magazine layout like the New York Times for your website
Creating and arranging a grid of posts that are organised into sections by their categories used to be difficult. It’s now super easy! The following tutorial will show you how easy this is now with the WooThemes Canvas Page Builder.
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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…