• The most flexible theme we could build – introducing 18tags Pro

    Last week we released our 18tags Pro, our new premium WordPress theme. When designing 18tags Pro our main design consideration was to make it as flexible and easy to customize as possible, but also very fast and lean.

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    The most flexible theme we could build – introducing 18tags Pro
  • Running WordPress masterclasses with the Guardian

    A little news from Pootle HQ….we’re really pleased to be now working with the Guardian as part of their digital masterclass series. We ran our first WordPress Masterclass course in February and the next one will be run on the 10th May.

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    Running WordPress masterclasses with the Guardian
  • Introducing Wilson and Pootle

    A Monster tale…. Pootlepress is now 5 years old. Our purpose in life is to make running successful websites easier for our customers. We’ve been wanting to personalise the Pootlepress brand so that it tells our customers stories more effectively across social and digital media.

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    Introducing Wilson and Pootle
  • 18tags Pro sneak peek video – featuring the Pootle live editor

    Here’s a sneak peek video of the upcoming pro version of our WordPress theme 18tags. 18tags pro features our upcoming Pootle live editor (working title). The Pootle live editor is a lean, front end, drag and drop editor that makes it easy to create beautiful looking WordPress pages in minutes. The Pootle live editor will initially be launched as part of…

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    18tags Pro sneak peek video – featuring the Pootle live editor
  • How to set up WooCommerce Bookings for rental properties or hotel rooms

    WooCommerce Bookings is a very powerful extension that adds the ability for online booking.  Now WooThemes have built a free add-on to Bookings designed to make it easier to sell rooms and apartments. The following videos show you how to set up WooCommerce Bookings and the Accomodation Bookings extension. These video tutorials are using the…

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    How to set up WooCommerce Bookings for rental properties or hotel rooms
  • How to build these 10 beautiful homepage layouts in only a few minutes

    Creating compelling home page is important and fun – so here are 10 layout possibilities when using our free 18 tags theme. I’ve also provided a short explanation under each image on how each page was built.

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    How to build these 10 beautiful homepage layouts in only a few minutes
  • The Pootle live editor (now called the Pootle live designer) – sneak peek video

    Introducing the Pootle live editor Here’s a sneak peek video of our upcoming live editor for Pootle page builder. Our aim with The Live Editor is to make it much easier to create beautiful WordPress pages. We’re hoping to release the Live Editor in early February.  pootle live editor red from pootlepress on Vimeo. Customer…

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    The Pootle live editor (now called the Pootle live designer) – sneak peek video
  • Introducing 18 tags – our new free WordPress theme

    18 tags is our first WordPress theme. It’s highly customizable and we’ve tried to make it very easy to use. Below are some videos that show you some of the key elements of 18 tags. I’ll be putting some more in-depth tutorial together over the coming weeks. You can download 18 tags for free here. …

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    Introducing 18 tags – our new free WordPress theme
  • 5 free 2.5D parallax video backgrounds

    Video backgrounds can really bring your pages to life. Here’s 5 free 2.5D parallax video backgrounds that will work great on your website, especially if you are using the free pootle page builder plugin. These video backgrounds have been created from photos from unsplash.com. You are free to use them wherever you like. This effect…

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    5 free 2.5D parallax video backgrounds
  • Meet Storefront Pro 2

    Today we released Storefront Pro 2, an update for our WordPress plugin that let’s you customize almost every element of the WooThemes Storefront theme. Here’s what’s new in Storefront Pro 2, 2015-11-19 – Storefront Pro Version 2.0.0 New – Grid view on mobile store New – List view on mobile store New – Mobile store masonry…

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    Meet Storefront Pro 2
  • How to create a black friday cover page

    Here’s a short tutorial on how to create a black friday cover page for the WooThemes Storefront theme. This tutorial uses the following plugins, Pootle page builder Shortcodes Ultimate Storefront Pro   How to create a black friday cover page from pootlepress on Vimeo.

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    How to create a black friday cover page
  • Storefront Pro mobile store

    Here’s a sneak peek at some new functionality coming to Storefront Pro very soon. Mobile store gives your customers a richer, better and faster shopping experience when using the WooThemes Storefront theme – so you’ll sell more! Here’s a little video that shows you the mobile store option in Storefront Pro. If you have any…

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    Storefront Pro mobile store
  • WooThemes Storefront: How to add a hero video background

    This short tutorial shows you how to add a video hero to WooThemes Storefront. This tutorials uses the following free plugins, Pootle page builder Shortcodes ultimate

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    WooThemes Storefront: How to add a hero video background
  • How to add icons to WooThemes Storefront menu items

    Here’s a short video tutorial on how to add icons to WooThemes Storefront menu items. This tutorials uses our Storefront Pro plugin and the online font library from Font Awesome.   How to add icons to WooThemes Storefront menus from pootlepress on Vimeo.

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    How to add icons to WooThemes Storefront menu items
  • WooThemes Storefront Mega Menus

    With the release of our Storefront Pro plugin, creating Mega menus for WooThemes Storefront is now super easy. Here’s a short video that shows you how you can create WooThemes Storefront mega menus with one click, Mega menus Features Create mega menus with 1 click Add up to four columns in your mega menus Style…

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    WooThemes Storefront Mega Menus
  • Storefront Pro – sneak peek video

    Here’s a sneak peek video of Storefront Pro, our new plugin for the WooThemes Storefront theme. Storefront Pro makes it easy to modify and customize WooThemes Storefront – the official WooCommerce theme. Storefront Pro will be released this week. Either watch the full video at the bottom of this post, or use the shortcuts below…

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    Storefront Pro – sneak peek video
  • How to create a stunning photography website

    Introduction This step by step video tutorial shows you how to create a beautiful full width photography website using the Divi Theme from Elegant Themes. This tutorials uses the Divi Theme from Elegant Themes, and our Page Customizer plugin. How to do it How to create a photograpy or artists website with the Divi Theme…

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    How to create a stunning photography website
  • Learn WordPress in 1 day

    This set of videos is based on my ‘Learn WordPress in a day’ training course that teaches students all the important fundamentals of building websites with WordPress, from installation, managing content, using themes and plugins, and SEO.

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    Learn WordPress in 1 day
  • How to build an elearning website

    Learn how to build an Learning Management system with WordPress. The Sensei plugin enables you to create courses, write lessons, and add quizzes. You can also set lesson and course pre-requisites, allow user registration and charge for course content.

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    How to build an elearning website
  • WordPress 10 minute quick start guide

    I’ve now trained over 2000 people on on my ‘Learn WordPress in 1 day course’ and one of the questions I get asked quite a bit, has been requests to put together a refresher course. So here is a quick start guide to WordPress.

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    WordPress 10 minute quick start guide