There are plenty of premium WordPress themes available on an ever-expanding market, but sometimes a theme stands out as a potential foundation for all kinds of future developments in WordPress. Canvas, by WooThemes is such a theme. It’s fairly plain to look at. It’s the features inside that make it a viable framework for all kinds of creative projects.
Just glance at this list of out-of-the-ordinary features that the Woo team has built into this awesome theme…
- Canvas will let you customize the style and typography of every element in the design. Packed with 100+ options, it allows you to make your blog look exactly like you want!
- You can change any text on your site to the font of your liking, and also use the awesome Google Font to go beyond those standard web-safe fonts.
- Canvas lets you easily change between 6 different site widths (1200, 980, 960, 940, 880 and 760 pixels) and also has an option to box your layout in.
- You can also choose between 6 different layouts for and order of content/sidebars (full width, 2 col left, 2 col right, 3 col left, 3 col middle, 3 col right). Canvas also lets you specify individual layouts per post or page!
- Canvas features a Magazine and Business page template, both with javascript sliders so now you can easily setup your homepage to act as a magazine or business theme.
- NEW! Canvas now supports WooTumblog functionality so it can function like a Tumblr theme, and you can use the new Express iPhone App to publish to your Canvas powered blog!
- The theme has 2 widgetized areas in sidebar and 4 widgetized areas in footer (optional), and also some extra Woo custom widgets (Woo Tabs, Flickr, Twitter, Adspace, Search).
- Canvas is the first theme from WooThemes that has made use of custom hooks, which makes it a lot easier to customize the theme via a child theme without touching any code in the main parent theme.
I like it so much, as a framework, that I built my personal blog using it as the code base (though I can’t upgrade it because I nearly hacked the core code to death). I’ve used it on several creative projects and will most definitely use it in the future. Check it out!
