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A beginners guide to WordPress (in 2500 words)
WordPress is now the world’s largest website publishing system. There are many misunderstandings about WordPress, so we’ve put together this article to explain the key concepts.
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WooDojo from Woothemes: An in-depth video walkthrough
WooDojo from Woothemes is a very powerful WordPress plugin that includes a number great features. Here is an in-depth video walk through of all the great things you can do with WooDojo.
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Wooslider: A video tutorial
Wooslider is a great new slider plugin from Woothemes. WooSlider is powered by FlexSlider, a fully responsive jQuery slider plugin. In the following video tutorials I walk you through ‘step by step’ how to create great looking slideshows with Wooslider.
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10 beautiful WooThemes Canvas website designs
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [pinterest count=”horizontal” float=”left”][google_plusone size=”standard” float=”left” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”][divider_flat]The Canvas theme framework from WooThemes is an incredibly flexible theme that is easy to customise and personalise. Here are 10 of my favourite examples of Canvas being used in the wild. This list has been compiled by…
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5 new WordPress Xpress websites go live
We’ve had a busy 8 weeks! Here are 5 brand new WordPress Xpress websites.
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Walking for the MNDA: The Welsh 3000’s
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [pinterest count=”horizontal” float=”left”][google_plusone size=”standard” float=”left” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”][divider_flat]This Saturday, July 7th, I will be undertaking my latest challenge to raise money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association. The challenge is to walk the Welsh 3000s. To complete the challenge I need to summit 15 mountains…
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Some pictures from our latest London WordPress training course
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [pinterest count=”horizontal” float=”left”][google_plusone size=”standard” float=”left” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”][divider_flat] Here are some pictures from our latest London WordPress training course. Our Learn WordPress in 1 day course costs just £95 + vat per person. Click here for details of July and August WordPress training dates.
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Customer showcase: Ant Design Gifts
Ant Design Gifts is run by graphic designer Kashmira Jhaveri. She uses her love of typography to design wonderful papercuts. Kashmira built her site after attending our Learn WordPress in 1 day training course.
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6 WordPress plugins, themes and services that we used to build Pootlepress
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [pinterest count=”horizontal” float=”left”][google_plusone size=”standard” float=”left” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”][divider_flat] #1 WordPress Theme – Canvas is our favorite theme from the wonderful Woothemes. #2 Membership plugin – We use Wishlist member to power the Pootlepress Academy – the ‘members only’ area of our website. #3 Email newsletters…
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Customer showcase: C&M Consultants
C&M Consultants offer bespoke marketing and design services specialising in property, luxury lifestyle sectors and those industries targeting high net worth individuals. Their new website was built on a Pootlepress WordPress Xpress day and launched last week.
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How to build an Intranet with WordPress (using these 10 plugins and themes)
WordPress has some great plugins and themes that can help you build an Intranet. Below I have listed 10 WordPress plugins and themes that will help you.
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A cheats guide: Learn how to create great looking illustrations for your website in 5 simple steps
Hand drawn illustrations can really add personality and a personal feel to your website. Below I show you how to create your own illustrations using the Adobe Ideas app for Ipad. Artistic talent not required!
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Photographer Gregory Brown talks about WordPress training with Pootlepress
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [pinterest count=”horizontal” float=”left”][google_plusone size=”standard” float=”left” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”][divider_flat]Gregory Brown is a photographer who specialises in Portraiture, Fashion, Artistic nude and fine art nude. Greg came on our Learn WordPress in 1 day course and then a WordPress Xpress course. Below he talks about his experience…
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10 Ipad Apps to help with your WordPress website
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [pinterest count=”horizontal” float=”left”][google_plusone size=”standard” float=”left” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”][divider_flat]A good friend of mine – who shall remain nameless – explained to me 2 weeks ago that Ipad’s are only good for browsing the Internet and watching films. I couldn’t disagree more with his view. I believe…
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Customer showcase: Graham from Northedge Design came on our WordPress training course and now he’s producing beautiful websites like this
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [pinterest count=”horizontal” float=”left”][google_plusone size=”standard” float=”left” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”][divider_flat] The Bard in the Botanics website was built by Graham Ramage of Northedge Design for one of his clients Bard in the Botanics – Scotland’s biggest & best-loved festival of Shakespeare. Graham attended our Learn WordPress in a…
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WordPress training course in Wales confirmed for the 5th July
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [google_plusone size=”standard” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”][divider] I’m thrilled to announce that we’ve just confirmed our first WordPress training course in Wales. The Learn WordPress in a day training course will run on the 5th July in Cardiff. Adding Cardiff to our WordPress training course locations means…
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The statistics that prove you are wasting your time on Social Media (probably)
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [google_plusone size=”standard” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”] [divider] If you are running a business how much time should you be spending on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Pinterest? More importantly, is your time spent on these social networks doing you any good? Are they bringing you new customers?…
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Video: What’s coming in WordPress 3.4
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” float=”left” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] [google_plusone size=”standard” annotation=”none” language=”English (UK)”] The first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.4 is now available for download and here’s a short video I’ve made showing 2 of its new features.
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Pootlepress Academy welcomes it’s 100th member!
We launched the Pootlepress Academy a couple of months ago and I’m thrilled to announce that the 100th member has just joined.
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How to create a WordPress Child Theme with 1 click
WordPress Child Themes are very useful because they enable you to modify the appearance of your original or Parent theme, without fear of breaking it. WordPress Child themes inherit all the styles and functionality from the Parent theme and allow you to place all your CSS changes is a separate place to the Parent theme’s…
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How to exclude an image from an image gallery in WordPress
The in-built image gallery function in WordPress is very useful, in that you can create great looking image gallleries with a few clicks. Here’s an example below of a WordPress gallery. An example WordPress Gallery However, by default WordPress will include every image you include in a post or page to your image gallery. This…
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Video: The easiest way to add a photo to a WordPress widget
How to add photos to WordPress widgets is a question I’ve been asked many times in our WordPress training courses, so I made a short a video to explain to best way to do it! [twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”]
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30 simple (but useful) WooThemes Canvas CSS tweaks
You can do so many cool things with Canvas without having to dive into any code. However, there are times when you’ll want to tweak Canvas and with that in mind, I’ve put together the following list of 30 useful CSS tweaks.
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3 great looking WordPress Xpress websites
We’ve been really busy in the last few weeks and below are some of our latest WordPress Xpress websites.
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SEO and WordPress tutorial now available on the Pootlepress Academy
Today we release our latest Pootlepress Academy tutorial ‘SEO and WordPress’. This tutorial teaches you how to optimise your WordPress website so that you get the best possible results in Google.
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How to get BBPress forums working with Woothemes Canvas
Unfortunately a recent update of Woothemes Canvas caused a problem with BBPress. Namely BBPress no longer displays properly and is broken. However there is a simple fix and below I detail how to get both Canvas and BBPress working nicely together.
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Welcome to the new Academy ‘tips and tricks’ section
This is a new section for Pootlepress Academy members. We’ll use it to update you with smaller tutorials and WordPress tips, tricks and news. If there are any specific tips and tricks you would like us to cover – or that you have discovered yourself – please get in touch and let us know by…
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Learn how to build a Business Directory with WordPress
Our latest Pootlepress Academy tutorial teaches you ‘step by step’ how to build a great looking Business Directory. It uses the brilliant Listings theme from Woothemes. The Listings theme is our favorite way to build a Business Directory with WordPress.
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Celebrating 50 Pootlepress Academy members with a brand new Woothemes tutorial
Exciting times at Pootlepress HQ. Yesterday our 50th member joined the Pootlepress Academy and today we release our latest tutorial based on the brilliant Whitelight theme from Woothemes. The Woothemes Whitelight theme tutorial includes everything you need to know to build a great looking site for your business or organisation.
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Woothemes Whitelight tutorial to be released on the 28th March
We are busy putting the finishing touches to our latest WordPress e-learning tutorial. This will be based on the brilliant Whitelight theme from Woothemes and will be available from March 28th for all Pootlepress Academy members. Whitelight is one of our favourite WordPress themes and includes a fully responsive design, featured slider, custom homepage, optional…