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Where to find Beaver Builder Child Themes

By Michael Davis / August 28, 2016 /

Child Themes offer you a way of getting started with a pre-made design for your site. There are free child themes available and paid=for themes provided by 3rd party developers.

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Transparent header in the Beaver Builder theme

By Michael Davis / August 28, 2016 / Comments Off on Transparent header in the Beaver Builder theme

The Beaver Builder theme does not currently support transparent headers but you can achieve this look in a number of ways.

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PowerPack Content Grid Module Review

By Michael Davis / August 27, 2016 /

In this video, David Waumsley takes an in-depth look at the Content Grid module available in PowerPack by BeaverAddons.

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Beaver Builder Toolset Views integration

By Michael Davis / August 25, 2016 /

Toolset has announced today that Version 2.2 of their WordPress plugin adds Beaver Builder integration via simple content templates. New versions of out Toolset plugins are now out! Go and check the great new features! https://t.co/FHGepbhRwr #WordPress — Toolset – WordPress Development For Non-Coders (@ToolsetPlugins) August 25, 2016 This new version of the plugin brings…

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TAKE OFF! Part 3: Beaver Builder Theme

By Michael Davis / August 25, 2016 /

Find out more about the Beaver Builder theme, child themes and why you’d want to use the Beaver Builder shortcodes in your layout.

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Beaver Builder Updates

By Michael Davis / August 24, 2016 /

Summer holidays are in full swing and the fun continues as Beaver Builder releases news of exciting features in their upcoming Plugin version 1.9 & 2.0 Following on from our blog post last month, here are a few new updates to add to the upcoming plugin features… Beaver Builder Plugin Updates Justin Busa has recently…

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Using Beaver Builder & Zapier for new post notifications

By Michael Davis / August 16, 2016 /

One of the advanced modules in Beaver Builder is the Subscriber module which let’s you collect subscriber names and email addresses from your website visitors. The module has many great built-in email services like ActiveCampaign, Mailchimp and more.

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Add Font Awesome social icons to your Beaver Builder menus

By Michael Davis / August 8, 2016 /

Take a look at the top header bar on Beaver Brains and you’ll notice some colourful social icon links for our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram networks. Thanks to David Waumsley’s article here, we were able to add these icons using Font Awesome and the standard WordPress menus. If you are using the Beaver Builder theme,…

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TAKE-OFF! Part 2: Advanced Beaver Builder

By Michael Davis / August 5, 2016 /

In the second post in our series, we take a look at how to maximise Beaver Builder by tapping into the advanced modules, setting up templates and customising the plugin’s global settings. One of the benefits of using Beaver Builder, as pointed out in Part 1, is the ability to use templates and reusable elements…

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TAKE-OFF! Part 1: Using Beaver Builder

By Michael Davis / August 2, 2016 /

Welcome to TAKE-OFF! A series of articles about using Beaver Builder with your WordPress-based website. This first post is an introduction to the Beaver Builder products and will give you an overview of the purchasing options, capabilities and technical aspects of both the plugin and theme. Follow the links in the sidebar to access additional resources.…

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Take-Off! Getting started with Beaver Builder

By Michael Davis / August 1, 2016 /

If you’re new to Beaver Builder and you’re not sure what it can do for you, then this simple getting started series of posts will answer many of your questions. Beaver Builder provides a solid starting point for creating powerful websites and in this series, we’re going to take you through the very basics –…

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It’s Showtime for the Beaver Builder website creators!

By Michael Davis / July 29, 2016 /

Our Beaver Builder showcase page is now live! We’ve published great submissions from wedding planners, candy makers, health and fitness organisations, web design agencies and many more. It’s great to see the many ways Beaver Builder is being put to use with the majority of the submissions using both the BB plugin and theme. You’ll also…

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