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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…