We’ve been on a very prominent drive in the last couple of months to solidify Canvas‘ status as our flagship theme here at WooThemes. The release of Canvas V4 was followed shortly thereafter by the addition of a portfolio module, which has made Canvas a truly flexible set of incredible functionality.
The biggest challenge with any theme of this stature is the education that surrounds it. To this extent, we’ve been quietly working away at building & populating a brand-new Canvas How To section.
Canvas How To Tutorials
The Canvas How To section currently contains 24 tutorials and the guys have been hard at work trying to squeeze some more value in there (juggling support & development tasks with that of writing some extensive tutorials).
The idea with these tutorials is to showcase the flexibility of Canvas (something which should also be present in the recent Canvas case studies which we’ve published) and to empower users to use more of the incredible functionality that is already included in Canvas. We want to help you create better websites.
We’re adding tutorials as we spot the need for specific topics in the support forum. Feel free to post any suggestions / requests for new tutorials here or in the support forum. As said above, we’re having to juggle our time between a bunch of things at the moment, but we’re spending every spare second improving our support resources (more on this soon!) & more specifically our documentation & tutorials for Canvas. 
21 Responses to “Guiding You Through Canvas”
Thanks.
It will be great to have a tutorial from photoshop psd to canvas.
Sweet!
This will be a high traffic zone for sure. I learned a lot with canvas and the added features and functions make the experience even better now.
Very smart and this will help the collective surplus of the community can built upon each others generosity.
Thanks for this very helpful resources. It is these extra touches that keep me coming back to WooThemes.
Nice going. Then I can hopefully start trying to work with Canvas soon then
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Been waiting so long for this. Really appreciate the effort you guys put into this. Now I’ve got Canvas homework to do!
Looking great! Can’t wait to dive in to this so I can stop asking you guys for help. Haha
Please check the link for General > Multilingual as it is not going to the correct page in the Canvas guide.
Cheers! fixed it now
I think including a guide for the incorporation of the JigoShop ecommerce plugin using the Canvas child theme would be great as this adds ecommerce functionality to the very versatile Woo frame work combined with the extensive canvas editable options which are superb.
Thanks guys – This is awesome. I’ll have to go back and fix some of my hacks!
Are there any plans on releasing (pre-designed) child themes for Canvas?
No plans for pre-designed child themes for Canvas for now unfortunately.
I would like to see some of those as well
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Thanks for awesome posting.
Really cool!! Thanks.
Thanks for this useful resource. I would love to see a tutorial on how to add “Recent Works” from the portfolio page to the homepage template, like in your themes “Simplicity” or “Kaboodle.”
I dont think the canvas theme is not finished yet, I have been using it and it is not very good or flexible and buggy (even tough my developer(featured on your website) told me it was related to my server???-rackspace), I can see that you are using more and more element of the “striking” theme but the portfolio feature sorts items alphabetically, poor control over widgets, i can see it is getting better but you have a way to go.
let me know when you took it to the next level, and look at some of the awesome features of the striking theme as you have been doing.
Hi Slavo,
We are always striving to make it better so if you have some feedback on how we can do that, please send us an e-mail or post in our support forum
I am actually not a customer, i just hired a developer who uses your themes. So i dont have access to your forums. and for a flagship and all the fanfare i would expect a more polished product. because where the theme is at I would prefer to create my own theme, as i think it would be faster most of the times rather than beating Canvas into submission (colours, fonts, backrounds its a bitch how canvas can screw things up or will override css even if nothing is defined),
Even tough i love the sidebar manager once it started working.
Are there any plans to port over testimonials to Canvas? Woo Testimonials is superior to any of the 3rd party plugins I’ve tried and moving it over from another theme can be kinda tedious. Other than that, I’m really happy with Canvas!
VERY WELL! Thanks.