Completely changed my approach to WordPress

I started using Pootle Page Builder in beta after a very happy experience using its predecessor built for Canvas. How I got to this point is something that I would urge anyone who feels intimidated, or more accurately paralysed by the multiplicity of choice that a fully-featured off-the-shelf theme might offer. I had a business idea, turned to WordPress and thought I was making the right decision by buying the kind of theme that comes with 20 home pages – none of which turned out to do exactly what I wanted. In the end I found myself compromising my concept to fit someone else’s idea of what my site should look like.

Instead I started reading about theme frameworks and my preference for using Canvas and designing my own child theme was largely down to the support offered by PootlePress through their academy.

By starting off with their Canvas Page Builder plugin, and now using the Pootle Page Builder i am, slowly designing the site page by page that existed in my imagination and in my wireframes and sketches long before I bought an off the shelf theme. I’m learning more about WordPress too.

So I’d urge anyone who might have thought that page or theme design in WordPress was not for them, to purchase a theme frame work such as Genesis or Canvas, create a child theme, and start playing around with Page Builder. It’s a beautifully designed product.