Documentation

Canvas WP Documentation

Everything you need to build a website with Canvas: installation, the block library, site chrome, ready made designs, and every Theme Options setting.

Getting Started

6 articles

What the Canvas documentation covers, how it is organised, and where to look first.

Installation

5 articles

Requirements, installing the theme and Canvas Core, keeping both updated, and moving between staging and production.

Licensing

6 articles

Plans and seats, activating and moving a license, what expiry actually changes, and the refund and renewal terms.

Using Demos

5 articles

Importing a ready-made Canvas demo, understanding what the import changes, building on top of it, and removing it cleanly.

The Editor

5 articles

How Canvas fits into the block editor: where settings live, what templates and patterns are, the block library, and the controls every block shares.

Site Chrome

11 articles

Building everything that wraps your content: headers, mega menus, top bars, footers, page titles, side panels, popups, heroes and navigation.

Widgets

2 articles

How sidebars and widget areas work in a block theme, where to edit them, and the Theme Options that style every widget at once.

Building Content

6 articles

Working with the content Canvas adds to WordPress, from Portfolio projects and Events to Sliders, Forms and the blog.

WooCommerce

7 articles

Running a shop with Canvas, from the templates and product cards to the shop blocks, cart, checkout and the header mini-cart.

AI

7 articles

What Canvas AI writes and draws, where its controls appear and why, how to teach it your brand, and what credits, licensing and outages mean for it.

Blocks

204 articles in 10 sections

The Canvas block library, grouped the way the block inserter groups it. Every block has its own page listing what it is for and every setting it exposes.

Content Types

14 articles

The kinds of content Canvas adds to the WordPress admin. Some hold what a visitor reads, such as Portfolio projects and Events; the rest hold pieces of the site itself, such as a header, a footer or a popup.

Theme Options

39 articles in 3 sections

The site wide settings under the Canvas admin menu. One page per tab, listing every setting on it, what it changes and what it starts as.

Designs

65 articles

Every Canvas design that installs blocks or content types of its own, with a page each listing what it adds. Read the page for the design your site is built from.

Developers

1 article

The filters, actions, command line tools and abilities Canvas keeps stable for child themes and plugins, and how a child theme overrides Canvas files.

Troubleshooting

5 articles

What each license state means, why an update or an import is not behaving, why the editor and the site can differ, and how to reach support.