In the video below I show you some of the key features, including:

• Theme independence – Buddypress now works with any theme.
• Easier for community managers – there are now tools for group and member management.
• Easier installation and set up.
• Easier to set up extended profiles

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Video demonstration of Google Maps Engine Lite

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Below I ask Matty about

• How he got started in web development
• How he joined WooThemes
• The WooThemes product development strategy
• WooThemes future strategy
• Plugins and themes
• Ecommerce growth (WooCommerce)
• The future of WooThemes
• The future of WordPress

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Below Paul Gibbs, Lead Developer, gives us his insight into all things BuddyPress.

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This tutorial will teach you how to create a single page website with any theme (the theme we used in the video is Canvas from Woothemes).

You will learn how to create animated ‘super smooth scrolling’ from your menu items to specific areas within your home page – and ‘back to top‘ links so that your readers can easily navigate through all your single page content.

Example Single Page WordPress website

What we used for this tutorial…

• The Page scroll to id plugin
• The Canvas theme from WooThemes
• The Pootlepress menu pack for WooThemes Canvas

What the tutorial will cover

1. Installation of the Page scroll to id plugin
2. How to set up your menus so they link to a specific area on the page
3. How to define the area on the page where the menus link to
4. How to create ‘back to top’ links

Video tutorial

Step 1: Introduction

How to set up your menus

Below is the text you will need to put into link relationship field in your menu item

m_PageScroll2id

And don’t forget you will need to add a url following this convention (replacing the word ‘about’)

#section_about

Adding to Back to top link in your page

Add the target div to your header

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Simon Coker

With the increasing use of tablets and mobile phones we are seeing more and more single page WordPress websites. Here’s a great example that Pootlepress built for Coker Design.  The framework for the Coker Design website was built in 1 day on using our WordPress Xpress service and the customisations that Coker Design required were done after the day. In total the project took just 2 weeks to complete.

“Knowledgeable, responsive, easy. Pootlepress understood our objectives from the outset and worked closely with us to achieve them”.
Simon Coker

Below is a screenshot of the Coker Design website – better still click here to visit the Coker Design website and see it in action.

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Contact Form 7 is the most popular free contact form plugin for WordPress – with over 9.5m downloads. Below is a short video tutorial that shows you how to use it on your own WordPress website.

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Judith Yarrow

Judith Yarrow creates beautiful art. She has exhibited widely and her paintings are in collections in the UK and abroad.

Her new website www.judithyarrow.com was built on a WordPress Xpress day. This is where we build you a website and train you how to update it – all in 1 day.  Judith wanted a really clean and minimal look to her new website.

Judith also wanted e-commerce functionality so that she could sell cards and prints of her work.

Judith’s previous website (not WordPress) had been hacked so getting the new website up and running as quickly as possible was very important.

It’s really great to have a positive, fully functioning and secure website back up and running and to be able to put the hacking episode behind me so I can move forward with my paintings.
Judith Yarrow

Here are some screenshots of Judith’s new website

Home page

Gallery page

Light box

E-commerce page

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The Academy has now got over 7 hours of WordPress tutorials and a growing and active members only support forum.  It costs just £49.95 per year and as a member you get access all the tutorials listed below.

If you would like to join the Academy click here to sign up and get instant access.

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