• Introducing Pootle Slider

    Pootle Slider provides you full control over each slider create columns, add buttons, background images, backgrounds videos and lot more! Poole slider allows full control over slides, powered by Pootle Pagebuilder it converts page builder rows to slides, offering advanced control over each slide!

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    Introducing Pootle Slider
  • Build a better shop with Storefront Pro 3.5

    Storefront Pro is now used by over 3000 online shops around the world – here’s 10 very short videos that show you the highlights that come with version 3.5.

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    Build a better shop with Storefront Pro 3.5
  • 5 pro design ideas for your WordPress pages

    5 pro design ideas for your WordPress pages Pootle Pagebuilder was recently ranked in the top 3 page builders by WordPress guru Pippin Williamson. And version 3.5 of Pootle Pagebuilder is our biggest update yet. Here’s 5 simple tips that will help you create amazing looking pages. Read more about Pootle Pagebuilder Pro  Pixel perfect design For me, this is the…

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    5 pro design ideas for your WordPress pages
  • Pixel perfect control comes to Pootle Pagebuilder

      Pixel perfect control comes to Pootle Pagebuilder One of my aims with Pootle Pagebuilder is to give you the same level of design capability that you already have with desktop publishing. The video below shows you two more improvements we are making; the ability to drag content anywhere within a row, and the ability to…

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    Pixel perfect control comes to Pootle Pagebuilder
  • Drag and drop ‘easy build’ modules for WordPress

      Say hello to drag and drop ‘easy build’ modules for WordPress Here’s a few videos showing you the new ‘easy build’ modules now available in Pootle Pagebuilder.  ‘Easy build’ Modules can be dropped anywhere into a page or a post and make it even easier to create great looking pages and posts. Drag and drop…

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    Drag and drop ‘easy build’ modules for WordPress
  • Running a WordPress masterclass for the The Guardian – new September date confirmed

      I’ve just confirmed a date for my digital WordPress masterclasses that I run in partnership with the guardian. The July course sold out very quickly (which is a good thing) and the new date is Tuesday 27th September. Information on the course can be found here ‘how to create a WordPress website in a day’.

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    Running a WordPress masterclass for the The Guardian – new September date confirmed
  • The Pootle Pagebuilder showcase

    Pootle Pagebuilder showcase websites When we develop a new product here in the Pootle Shed, we have a vision of how it’s going to help people achieve the type of website they want.  Knowing that we’re helping our customers to reach their own vision is what drives us. And so it’s really lovely when we get…

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    The Pootle Pagebuilder showcase
  • Pagebuilder iPad app – sneak peak video

    Here’s a sneak peak video of our upcoming Pootle Pagebuilder iPad app. We think it’s pretty cool and we hope you’re going to love it. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave them in the comments below.

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    Pagebuilder iPad app – sneak peak video
  • How to create a WordPress to Mailchimp landing page

    How to create a WordPress to Mailchimp landing page I often get asked when running my WordPress training courses ‘how do you create a WordPress to Mailchimp landing page‘. So here’s a short tutorial that shows you a nice simple way to do it.  To achieve this I’m using the following three plugins Mailchimp for WordPress –…

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    How to create a WordPress to Mailchimp landing page
  • 5 Storefront Pro websites we really like

    Storefront Pro let’s you easily customize the WooThemes Storefront theme. Customize everything…website colors, fonts, the header, the menu, the footer, your blog, your shop and more. We asked our customers to share their Storefront Pro sites in action and here are some nice examples. Greg Collet | Blade Carbon Wheels As the name suggests, the company…

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    5 Storefront Pro websites we really like
  • Julian von Gebhardi | Germany

    Customer name: Julian von Gebhardi From: Germany About Julian:  After a 3 month stay in South East Asia and witnessing the ever-increasing environmental impact of plastic waste, Julian returned to Germany with a determined fire in in his belly to bring about change in his home country.  He decided to create ‘Laguna’, a non-plastic onlinestore which aims to reduce…

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    Julian von Gebhardi | Germany
  • Paul Pruneau | California

    Customer name: Paul Pruneau From: California, US About Paul:  Paul is the founder of TeamworksCom creating integrated online and content marketing solutions for early stage companies. Paul and Pootlepress: Paul’s recent project with CorStone really caught our eye here at Pootlepress.  CorStone develops and provides personal resilience programs to improve well-being for youth worldwide. Their focus is on adolescent…

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    Paul Pruneau | California
  • Leigh Olson | Seattle

    Customer name: Leigh Olson From: Seattle, US About Leigh:  Leigh is a food photographer and recipe developer with a passion for local, seasonal ingredients, small batch and artisan products, farmers markets and the occasional glass of wine – or two. Leigh and Pootlepress: Leigh’s website is a portfolio of her food photography work. It is very simple, but needed…

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    Leigh Olson | Seattle
  • Jennifer Carello | Connecticut

    Customer name: Jennifer Carello From: Connecticut, US About Jennifer: Jennifer owns Techcare – a US-based, female run web development agency. She specializes in building easy to navigate, beautiful, and SEO optimized sites on the WordPress platform. Jennifer and Pootlepress: Jennifer likes to use Pootle Pagebuilder as it gives her the flexibility to style out Woothemes Canvas as she desires and create some…

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    Jennifer Carello | Connecticut
  • Bruno Freitas (aka Bfrema) | Brazil

    Customer name: Bruno Freitas (aka Bfrema) From: Brazil About Bfrema: Bfrema is a visual artist based on São Paulo, Brasil.  Bfrema and Pootlepress: Bfrema uses Woocommerce as a platform to sell his art and since he discovered Storefront Pro, he’s able to easily setup the visual of his store like a boss – meaning he can get back to living the dream.…

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    Bruno Freitas (aka Bfrema) | Brazil
  • Greg Collett | Canada

    Customer name: Greg Collett From: Canada About Greg:  Greg’s heart is on the open road, with his bike, touring North America.  Every now and then he takes a pit stop to design and build websites for nice clients. Greg and Pootlepress: Greg has been using Pootlepress plugins exclusively for the last couple of years.  He’s able…

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    Greg Collett | Canada
  • Storefront Pro version 3 now available

    Today we released Storefront Pro 3. This builds some extra cool features on top of those already released in previous version of Storefront Pro and is designed to work beautifully with WooThemes Storefront 2. If you would like to see detailed video walkthroughs of what’s possible with Storefront Pro click here to see 101 design customizations…

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    Storefront Pro version 3 now available
  • How to get full width sliders when using Meta slider and Pootle Page builder

      Meta slider is a very popular free Slider plugin for WordPress, and here’s a simple tweak that will enable you to have full width sliders when used with our free Pootle Page Builder plugin. Step 1 – Add the following css to your custom css Add the following CSS to your child theme. If…

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    How to get full width sliders when using Meta slider and Pootle Page builder
  • How to link from a photo to open a PDF

    Here’s a simple tutorial on how to link from a photo to open a PDF. I get this question asked quite quite a bit, so I thought a little video tutorial was in order. I hope you find it useful.

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    How to link from a photo to open a PDF
  • Why most businesses use WordPress – video intro of my talk to the British association for counselling and psychotherapy

    I recently gave a talk to the British association for counselling and psychotherapy as part of their Continuing Professional Development day.

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    Why most businesses use WordPress – video intro of my talk to the British association for counselling and psychotherapy