Below are 65 tips, tricks and CSS Tweaks to help you further customise the Canvas Theme from WooThemes. We will add further tweaks and tips to this post as we find them. If you have your own tweaks please let us know and we will add yours to the list.
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A beginners guide to WordPress (in 2500 words)
WordPress is now the world’s largest website publishing system. There are many misunderstandings about WordPress, so we've put together this article to explain the key concepts.
50 testimonials (via Twitter) for Pootlepress WordPress training courses
Here are 50 lovely testimonials from happy Pootlepress customers who have attended one of our WordPress training courses. We provide Group WordPress training courses in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Cardiff, Cheltenham and Exeter, Private WordPress training courses, and Online WordPress training courses via the Pootlepress Academy. For more information visit our WordPress training page, email jamie@pootlepress.co.uk, or [...]
New London Beginners WordPress training courses confirmed for 15th & 16th July, 2013
We’ve just confirmed 2 new dates for our Learn WordPress in 1 day beginners London WordPress training course for the 15th & 16th July in Central London. Our Learn WordPress in 1 day course will give you the knowledge and tools to create, manage and run a great WordPress website. Our WordPress training course takes you through all the [...]
The Pootlepress Academy now has 400 members!
Yesterday the 400th member joined the Pootlepress Academy. New members are now signing up at a rate of over 50 a month, and are joining from all round the world. It’s incredibly exciting to see the Academy growing at such a rate, and even more gratifying to get such great feedback from our members. Academy [...]
Buddypress Video: A quick look a some of cool features coming in 1.7
The new version of Buddypress is due out soon and after playing with the Beta for half a day I can say with some confidence that it’s a huge improvement over previous versions. In the video below I show you some of the key features, including: Theme independence – Buddypress now works with any theme. [...]
Video walkthrough: Create great looking Google maps visualisations with your own data
Google have just released a Beta of Google Maps Engine Lite. This enables you to create your own data / map visualisations by uploading your own data. It’s very easy to use and below I show you a quick demo.
Pootlepress Video interview with WooThemes Matty Cohen – Product Manager and Senior Developer
Matty Cohen is Product Manager and Senior Developer at Woothemes. His technology vision has helped guide WooThemes to their current position as the number one WordPress theme and plugin development company (…and he also helped us develop the Pootlepress Canvas Menu pack!) Below I ask Matty about How he got started in web development How [...]
Pootlepress Video Interview with Paul Gibbs, Lead Buddypress Developer
We are huge fans of the BuddyPress plugin here at Pootlepress. Version 1.7 – coming very soon – promises amongst other things full theme compatibility with almost all existing WordPress themes. This will be a huge for BuddyPress as it will now be easier than ever to implement on your WordPress website. Below Paul Gibbs, [...]
How to find out what WordPress Theme a website is using
I often get asked the question ‘what WordPress theme is that website using’ – so here’s a short video to show you how to find out.
Video tutorial: How to create a single page WordPress website
Single page WordPress websites – such as this one we built for Coker Brand Design – are growing in popularity because they work beautifully on desktops, phones and tablets. 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). [...]
Customer showcase: A beautiful single page WordPress website for Coker Design
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 [...]
Video tutorial: How to add a contact form to your WordPress website using Contact Form 7
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.
Customer showcase: Artist 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 [...]
The Pootlepress Academy welcomes our 250th member
The Pootlepress Academy now has over 250 members. One of the great things to watch since launching the Academy last year, has been to see the truly international nature of our members – they come from every corner of the World. The Academy has now got over 7 hours of WordPress tutorials and a growing [...]
Announcing the Pootlepress menu pack for Woothemes Canvas
This week we release the menu pack for Woothemes Canvas. The Pootlepress menu pack (£15) lets you create beautiful menus with 1 click. Take a look at the video below to see how it works.
Video tutorial: How to create beautiful ‘Apple like’ graduated backgrounds on your Woothemes website
The Wooframework from Woothemes comes with some ‘out of the box’ tools such as the info box to help you design a great looking website. In this video tutorial I show you how to create a beautiful graduated background that you can easily reuse on your website.
Video tutorial: The best way to upgrade a WordPress theme framework
WordPress theme frameworks such as Canvas, Thesis, Genesis, and Pagelines are often updated. The following tutorial shows you the best way to keep your theme up to date.
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.
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.
The Pootlepress A list: The top 25 WordPress plugins
One of the challenges you face when you are building your WordPress websites is ‘how do you choose the right plugin for the job’. As of today there are 20,699 free WordPress plugins available from WordPress.org so you face quite a challenge to narrow down your search. To make this easier for you I have [...]
Testimonials
"What a great set of tutorials, easy to follow, clear explanations and useful visuals. This set really does take you through from ignorance to building a WordPress website - highly recommended!"
Holly Tarquini
Bath Film Festival
"Pootlepress thank you for showing me such a fantastic new world and demystifying the world of website development. I have never attended such an exciting and eye opening training course. First class training and support."
Richard Morgan - HR Director
Telegraph Media Group
"The Academy is a great way to learn Wordpress without trawling through pages and pages of information. Key points delivered in a logical and easy to access way that will get you up and running with wordpress in no time."
Kevin Rodgers C.Psychol
Occupational Psychologist
"I must say what a hidden gem Pootlepress is, I learnt so much in the one-days training, in fact, it became invaluable knowledge when our previous websites became corrupted, and after the initial panic, I managed to set-up our two main websites within 2 days. The Academy is an amazing resource, easy to use, extremely helpful; in fact, you should put your price up.
I am so glad I googled WordPress courses
Bill Goss
Impressions Print & Publish
“Thank you SOOO much for making the Whitelight videos…they totally solved every question I had. I followed along step by step, and after a little while I had gotten my entire site set up! You saved me so much time and made things so easy…I don’t know how to thank you enough. I think it’s quite safe to say that I would never ever figured out how to get all those Woo-Component steps done unless you walked me through it and showed me exactly what to do.
Whitelight is so much more complicated than Headlines was…so I even though I had built WordPress blogs before, I found myself completely lost with this new theme (but Whitlelight is so great I just had to use it!). The WooThemes tutorials were no help at all because they’re so general, and Whitelight has about a million special tricks. Now that WordPress and Woo Framework are getting more and more sophisticated, I’ll definitely profit from watching all your other WordPress video tutorials, too.”
Sherm Cohen
Disney and SpongeBob Storyboard Artist
"The internet is an ocean of information on Wordpress, but you can narrow it all down to just one place where you can find structured, organized and what really just works in one place, Pootlepress... The information presented on videos is very precise and worth every penny of the yearly membership.. It's just like having your own private library on ' Wordpress how to ', that keeps growing. I thoroughly recommend it."
A El-Hani
"I have recently joined the Pootlepress Academy and worked my way through the 15 videos for tutorial 1
They are excellent and have helped me develop a basic website for my girlfriend's driving school."
Michael Mangroo
"Within a few hours I managed to create the site. Now–for anyone else unsure on joining the Academy I am aged 54 with a little knowledge of WordPress. The video tutorials are easy to follow and understand. Ideal for who wants to work at their own pace!
Well done Jamie and the team."
Kevin Slowther
Managing Director A19 Insurance in Tyne and Wear
