Since my original review on WooThemes’ Canvas premium WordPress theme, much has changed on this very versatile template.

First of all, some of bugs and quirks that existed in the first version of Canvas have been ironed out, which is a testament to the Woo team as they do actually stand behind and continue to improve their product offering. Even their WooThemes back end dashboard, known as Woo Framework, continues to improve and allow for easy customization.

As the name implies, the Canvas theme is really like starting from scratch. It provides you the basic architecture and flexibility to choose roughly how you want your WordPress website to look, and leaves you to color in the details. To begin with, Canvas offers several basic layout options: Tumblog, a pretty straightforward rolling blog format; Magazine, basically a spiffy front page with feature slider and two column post headers below; and Business, which offers a completely non-blog looking front page great for showing off your business services in a professional way, while maintaining the functionality of a WordPress blog.From there Canvas allows you to choose some other key options, mainly how many columns your site layout will be, and in what order they appear. You can also select the width of the site, which they have added a 1200 pixel width option to. This is great in this era of iPads, iPhones, and high-res screens. It also makes the 3 column option less crowded and more useable, increasing your screen real estate by 20-30%. Also new to Canvas is the ability to embed iFrame video from within your post rather than using an iFrame for WordPress plugin. If you don’t know about this, don’t worry, it’s just an added bonus.

• Fully Responsive Design
• Google font support
• Use your own images in design
• Advanced Layout Controls
• Change your layout
• Magazine and business page templates
• Portfolio module
• Tumblog functionality with iPhone App publishing
• Custom widgets
• Child theme friendly

Standard pricing of the Canvas theme from Woothemes is as follows :

Canvas Theme (standard version) : $70 (single site license)

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