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The Pootlepress Academy

Welcome to the Pootlepress Academy

Learn at your own pace with our online WordPress training videos. The cost to join the Pootlepress Academy is £49.95 ($75 Dollars) per year. Once you have joined you’ll get instant access to all our online training courses listed below and the ‘members only’ support forum.

All these tutorials are included in your Academy membership…

More details & sample videos…

WordPress Essentials
Featuring: 16 videos
Running time: 1 hour
The WordPress Essentials course includes a walk-through of common tasks in WordPress, from installing WordPress onto a self-hosted site, to tutorials on creating content (pages, posts, and widgets), inserting pictures and videos, installing and using plugins, using themes, and incorporating search engine optimization (SEO).

• How to install WordPress
• Creating content with WordPress
• Creating pages, posts and widgets
• How to insert hyperlinks
• How to insert pictures and videos
• Creating a website with an integrated blog
• How to create and arrange WordPress menus
• How to use WordPress themes
• How to use WordPress plugins
• Optimise your website for Search Engines (SEO)
• How to move your content from WordPress.com to WordPress.org

Sample ‘WordPress Essentials’ Tutorial

WordPress Quick start guide
Featuring: 7 videos
Running time: 25 mins
Our WordPress quick start guide can be viewed from within your WordPress Dashboard. This means that you don’t need to leave your WordPress website for help, while you work on it.

• Creating content with WordPress
• Creating pages and posts
• How to organise posts
• How to order your menu
• Working with WordPress widgets
• How to change WordPress from a blog into a website (with an integrated blog)

And some 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

“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

“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

Kevin Rodgers C.Psychol
Occupational Psychologist

“I have recently joined the Pootlepress Academy and worked my way through the 15 videos for tutorial 1, WordPress Essentials. They are excellent and have helped me develop a basic website for my girlfriend’s driving school.”

Michael Mangroo

“I recently purchased woothemes whitelight theme and was searching on the internet for a site that had actually utilised the whitelight theme. Although I did not find one I came across the Pootlepress site which was offering amongst other wordpress related tutorials, nine on building a site using the whitelight theme video tutorials. Being a bit suspicious of the low price of £49.95 per year I emailed Jamie and asked if it was possible to build a site by just watching the tutorials. I received his affirmative reply, subscribed to the academy and watched the videos….

Within a few hours I managed to create the site although I do need to add more content to complete
Now–for anyone else unsure on joining the academy I am aged 54 with a little knowledge of wordpress. Just over one year ago I attended a one day wordpress course (not Pootlepress) which I found the pace of the course too quick as I am slow with a keyboard and unfortunately have a limited attention span!

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

“I am delighted with the blog I’ve set up using WordPress Xpress & the Pootlepress Academy. I am an IT dummy yet Jamie made it a pleasure to work on & I got going quickly & easily. I have a good working knowledge of WordPress as a result and can get on with blogging happily. I can’t believe how enjoyable and easy this all is; and good value to. The tutorials have been a real boon to refresh & develop my knowledge & they enable me to maintain & develop my blog quickly & at a very low cost. The Academy allows me to fire questions in and the responses are both prompt and helpful.