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How to give your eCommerce store a makeover with WooCommerce product grid
Find out how to use WooCommerce product grid to enhance the user experience on your eCommerce store.
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The Gutenberg Block Editor will change the web but not in the way we all think
Introduction This article outlines some thoughts on Gutenberg that I’ve mulling on for a few months. I’ve been thinking about how the tools we use to produce content have an impact on the nature of the content we produce. I realize that some of these ideas might seem far-fetched, so be kind, and let me…
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How to create an Industry News Page with the Gutenberg Block Editor
Recently I created a page on pootlepress.com that helps my readers keep up to date with my favourite WordPress Blogs and Writers. You can find the page here https://www.pootlepress.com/best-wordpress-blogs-to-follow/ The Pootlepress.com WordPress Industry News Page An Industry News page is a nice and simple way that you can drive more traffic to your website. And…
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How to create a WooCommerce store with WordPress.com and build stunning product pages with WooBuilder Blocks
Learn the website builder and ecommerce plugin solution for creating an appealing, high-converting and secure online store.
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How to create a Call to Action Box with the Gutenberg Block Editor
I was reading a post by Chris Lema last week – and btw you should definitely read his blog – called Building Landing Pages with the Block Editor (Gutenberg). It’s cool because it shows you how to create a Call To Action Box (CTA) with the block editor using the GenerateBlocks plugin. A call to…
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How to customise your WooCommerce ‘add to cart’ button
Learn how to customise the WooCommerce add to cart button in a variety of different ways using WooBuilder Blocks.
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How to transform your WooCommerce Background with hero images, videos, sliders, or featured products
Find out how to transform the WooCommerce background with hero images, videos, sliders, and featured products to enhance your online store.
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SEO for WooCommerce Products: 10 Hacks to make your products rank better
Find out how to enhance WooCommerce product SEO and make your products rank better with these 10 SEO hacks.
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Gutenberg Tutorial: Learn how to add animated gradient backgrounds to page sections
This tutorial will show you how to create animated gradient backgrounds to sections within your WordPress websites. Here’s a live demo – see how the background colours of the section below change in an elegant and professional way! 👇 Animated Gradient Backgrounds Subtle and elegant changing background colours for Gutenberg And here’s a video walkthrough…
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WordPress 5.8 – A quick run through of what’s new!
WordPress 5.8 is due to be released on July 20th. Version 5.8 is bringing some big changes, especially in regard to the Gutenberg Block Editor. Here’s my take on the top 7 things to get excited about in Version 5.8. Full Site Editing Up to now, Gutenberg has enabled us to use the Block Editor…
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The Sketch Block for Gutenberg
There’s a cool (if somewhat buggy) new Gutenberg Block that lets you Sketch or Doodle directly within the Gutenberg Block Editor. It’s called the Sketch Block Plugin and it’s been built by the team at Automattic. And it’s free! I’m a keen Sketcher and Doodler and what I love most about the Sketch Block is…
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Chris Lema loves this Product Page design – find out why, and how to build it using the Block Editor
My latest YouTube tutorial is inspired by a great article by Chris Lema called ‘designing the product page’. Chris is a Ecommerce guru and in his article he outlines the design elements that you’ll want to include for a high converting product page. Sticky header with purchase button Large typography Beautiful images Video of product…
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WooCommerce Product Page – How to make Product Images Pop!
The WooCommerce Product Page is probably the most important page on your WooCommerce Store, and the WooCommerce Product Image is one of the most important elements on that page. Video tutorial Showcasing your product via product images is incredibly important and here are 3 easy to implement tips to make your WooCommerce Product Images really…
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WooCommerce Product Page – How to add a Request for Quote Button and Call for Price Button
This tutorial will show you how to add a Request for Quote Button and Call for Price button on the WooCommerce Product Page. I’m going to be using the WooBuilder Blocks plugin, alongside ninja forms. Video tutorial Plugins I used WooBuilder Blocks – to customize the WooCommerce Product Page using the Gutenberg Block Editor. Ninja…
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Create an awesome Glassmorphism Effect using the Gutenberg Block Editor
This tutorial shows how to add a frosted glass effect to your website using the WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor. What is Glassmorphism? “Glassmorphism is a term used to describe UI design that emphasises light or dark objects, placed on top of colourful backgrounds. A background-blur is placed on the objects which allows the background to shine through –…
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Displaying your WooCommerce Products the Easy Way with Storefront Blocks
Learn how to display your WooCommerce products better on your online store using the Storefront Blocks plugin.
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The Complete Guide to Customising the Menu of your WooCommerce Store
Learn how to customise the WooCommerce menu in new and unique ways and optimise your store for sales using the Storefront Pro plugin.
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10 Big Updates to our WooCommerce Gutenberg plugins
We’ve been really busy in the first few months of this year and have released big updates to our WooCommerce Gutenberg plugins, Storefront Blocks, WooBuilder Blocks and Storefront Pro. This article picks out the highlights. If you are an existing Plugin subscriber you’ll see the updates automatically appear in your WordPress website. What’s new in…
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How to use a WooCommerce Sales Countdown Timer to create urgency and drive more sales
WooCommerce is one of the most enduringly popular WordPress plugins, thanks to its powerful functionality and compatibility with all kinds of online retail. So it’s no secret that there are lots of WooCommerce stores out there. With customers having a lot of different options to choose from for any given purchase, WooCommerce store owners need…
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5 Ways to Make Your WooCommerce Featured Products Stand out
Did you know that WooCommerce powers more than 28% of all online stores? That’s right! WooCommerce is the leading eCommerce platform for the WordPress CMS. But while this certainly makes WooCommerce the platform you should use to power your online store, using the default WooCommerce layout will not make your store stand out from the…
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WooCommerce Blocks – The Ultimate Guide
This guide will cover the best WordPress Block Editor Blocks available for WooCommerce. WooCommerce is now the world’s leading e-commerce plugin, with over 5 million websites using it. Even though WooCommerce will automatically create pages – for example, your shop page, and your category pages – and automatically show your products within those pages, you…
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9 ways to make your WooCommerce product header remarkable
The WooCommerce product header is a critical part of your online store. Since it’s on every product page, it’s important that you get it right. Ideally, shoppers should be able to find what they’re looking for and access all the important areas of the site as quickly as possible. For this reason, your WooCommerce product…
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WooCommerce Product Table – how to easily list your products using the Product Table Block and the WordPress Block Editor, Gutenberg
Do you want to make it easier for customers to purchase your products? A Product Table makes it easy for you to create product tables and listings on one page so that customers can buy multiple items in one go. Adding a Product Table is a great way to sell more of your products without…
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Finding the Perfect WooCommerce Product Carousel: Top Features to Look Out For
WooCommerce is a powerful e-commerce platform. However, since it’s one of the most widely-used store plugins for the most popular content management system (CMS) on the internet, sticking with the default WooCommerce template can make your store look pretty generic. By default, the WooCommerce Shop page is generated automatically, so you have little to no…
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How to change from Divi to the Block Editor
This guide will walk you through how to change your website from the Divi Theme to the WordPress Block Editor, Gutenberg. Divi is one of the popular WordPress Themes in the World, and is now use on over 750,000. One of the key reasons that Divi is so popular is because it comes with it’s…
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A beginners guide to Google Core Web Vitals – Webinar
A big change is coming to the Google Ranking Algorithm in May, and it’s called Google Core Web Vitals. Unusually Google pre-announced this ranking change to give website owners time to prepare. This Webinar is aimed at beginners who maybe haven’t heard about the Core Web Vitals change, or have heard something about it, but…
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How to Change Default WooCommerce Product Sorting
This guide will show you how to change the Default Sort Order of your products on your WooCommerce Shop Page, your Category Pages and WooCommerce Home Page. By default you’ll only have a few default choices, which I’ve listed below. In Method one, I’ll show you how to select one of these. However, in my…
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NitroPack Plugin for WordPress – Amazing speed increases for your website, a beginner’s introduction to Google Core Web Vitals, and does NitroPack cheat page scores?
NitroPack will speed up your website. I’ve been using it on pootlepress.com for the last month and the speed increases I’ve seen when testing through the Google Page Insights tool have been off the charts. NitroPack only takes ten minutes to set up on your WordPress website, and absolutely no technical knowledge is needed. You’ll…
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Something small but HUGE just happened to WordPress
WordPress 5.7 has just been released, and with it comes true drag and drop for the Block Builder Editor (Gutenberg). In this video I explain why this is such a big deal. Let’s go through the reasons why Drag and Drop for the WordPress Block Builder is such a big deal Drag and Drop Blocks…
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How to use Easy Smooth Scroll Links – The Smooth Scrolling Anchor Plugin that lets you add Page Jumps in WordPress
I’m really pleased to announce that Pootlepress has acquired the Easy Smooth Scroll Links plugin. Easy Smooth Scroll Links is used on over 60,000 websites. What Easy Smooth Scroll Links does? Easy Smooth Scroll Links adds scroll animation effects to page anchors, smooth scroll, and more. This is sometimes called Page jumping. Page jumping, also sometimes referred…