Canvas, the multi-purpose AI theme and website builder: six demo websites built with the block editor

Canvas is a multi-purpose WordPress theme and website builder with AI built in. Pick one of 88 demos, import it in a click, then change anything from the block settings in the editor WordPress already gives you, with AI on hand to write your copy and create your images. No separate page builder plugin, no shortcodes, no locked layouts.

Canvas comes from SemiColonWeb, the team behind the Canvas HTML template, which more than 75,000 customers have used over the last 10 years. The WordPress version carries that design language into real Gutenberg blocks you can edit and reuse.

At a glance

88 demos in 16 categories, each a complete website with its own pages and content
298 blocks: 208 in the inserter across 10 families, plus 90 that power individual demos
183 patterns, 173 block templates and 4 style variations
Header builder with 22 header blocks, top bars, mega menus and side panels
533 Theme Options settings in 24 tabs, plus SEO (52 settings) and Performance (42 settings) screens
WooCommerce ready: 24 shop blocks, 18 store templates and 21 shop demos
Dynamic Content: 65 tags that fill block fields from posts, archives, the site, authors, WooCommerce, demo content types and the visitor
AI writing and images, with 200 text and 30 image generations included every month
1,923 Google Fonts, Adobe Fonts and your own uploads, plus 5,711 icons in 4 packs
Right-to-left styles for every demo, and translation-ready throughout
388 documentation articles with 356 screenshots

88 demos, each a complete website

Every demo installs as a working website. Where the design calls for them, it also brings forms, products, projects, events or content types of its own: a real estate demo arrives with properties, a medical demo with doctors and departments, a music demo with tracks, albums and artists.

The grid above shows every one of them, across 16 categories.

A Setup Wizard that finishes the job

The Canvas Setup Wizard welcome and import steps

After you activate the theme, the Setup Wizard walks you through nine steps: license, an optional child theme, your demo, the plugins it needs, recommended plugins, the import itself and your SEO basics. Skip any step you do not need, and run the wizard again whenever you like.

Import a demo whenever you like

Canvas Demo Import screen in the WordPress admin

Every demo is also available under Canvas > Demo Import, where you can search and filter by category. Each import is recorded in Import History, so you can roll it back and try another.

Built for the block editor

A Canvas page open in the WordPress block editor

Pages open inside their real template, with the header and footer in place, so what you edit is what your visitors see. Everything on the page is a block with a settings panel, so you never need to touch code or edit HTML by hand.

Canvas Heading block settings in the editor sidebar

Every Canvas block has its own settings, with a short note under each control explaining what it does
Shared advanced options on every block, core blocks included: entrance animations, custom CSS, custom attributes, and visibility by device, user role or site setting
Save a block’s settings as the default for new ones, and reuse style presets across the site
Each header, footer, page title, slider, hero or popup is its own item, edited once and reused across pages
Works with the Site Editor, templates and template parts

Build headers from blocks

Canvas header builder in the block editor

Arrange logos, menus, search, cart, social links, buttons and contact details in rows, then pick a layout: transparent, semi-transparent, floating, sticky, or sticky only when scrolling up. Top bars, mega menus and side panels are built the same way, footers and copyright bars too, and a page can swap in its own top bar.

Write and illustrate with AI

Generate Text with AI dialog on a Canvas Heading block

Describe your business once in Theme Options: what you do, your tone of voice, your audience and the words to avoid. After that, the AI button on text fields and in the block toolbar writes or rewrites copy that sounds like your site, and image fields can create a picture straight into the media library at the shape the field needs.

Each activated site includes 200 text and 30 image generations a month. Generation runs on our servers, so it needs an activated license and an internet connection.

Site-wide settings in one place

Canvas Theme Options: General, Typography and Color Scheme tabs

Theme Options holds 533 settings in 24 tabs: General, Header, Page Title, Blog, Portfolio, Events, Shop, Wishlist, Footer, Typography, Widgets, Color Scheme, Page Transitions, Side Panel, Social Media, Forms, 404 Page, GDPR / Cookies, AI, API Keys, Misc, Permalinks, Blocks and Import / Export.

Set a default once and every matching block follows it, while a block that sets its own value keeps it
Choose the address of portfolio, events and every demo content type; old links redirect to the new address
Turn off any Canvas block you do not need: it leaves the inserter and stops loading its files
Export the whole configuration, or save a named snapshot before a big change and restore it later

Fast and search-ready from the start

Canvas performance and SEO settings screens

Each page loads only the files its blocks use
35 performance switches: lazy loading, deferred and delayed scripts, font preloading and local fonts, image limits, database cleanup and WooCommerce trimming
SEO without an extra plugin: titles and descriptions written from your content, XML sitemap, robots rules, 16 schema types, social cards and analytics

A complete WooCommerce store

A Canvas shop demo and the Shop tab of Theme Options

Blocks for every part of the product page: gallery, price, rating, tabs, add to cart, related products and cross-sells
Cart and checkout blocks, add to cart without reloading, and a header mini cart
Colour swatches, a wishlist and a catalogue mode for stores that do not sell online
21 shop demos that arrive with products, categories and a working cart

Right on every screen

Every demo is responsive, and right-to-left styles are included, so Arabic, Hebrew and Persian sites mirror correctly.

More inside

Portfolio with filterable grids, project galleries, in-page project loading and many single project layouts
Events with a calendar, dates, locations, maps and related events
Forms built from blocks, with stored submissions, file uploads and email notifications
Sliders and heroes you design once and place on any page
Popups, modals and side panels for offers, sign-ups and menus
Page titles in four styles, set for the whole site or per page
Dark mode that follows the visitor’s device, plus dark style variations
Cookie consent that holds back embeds and analytics until the visitor agrees
Child theme created for you from the Setup Wizard

What your purchase includes

The Canvas theme. The Canvas Core plugin, which holds the blocks and site features, installs from the Setup Wizard.
A license for one website. Activate it by signing in with your Envato account at dashboard.canvaswp.com, which records your purchase and gives you a license key.
Updates for life, delivered through the normal WordPress Updates screen.
200 text and 30 image AI generations a month for the activated site.
Item support as described in Envato’s item support policy.

Activation unlocks the blocks, demo imports, updates and AI. When your support period ends, your site keeps working exactly as it is.

Requirements

WordPress 6.9 or newer, tested up to 7.1
PHP 7.4 or newer
WooCommerce, only for shop features

Documentation and support

Documentation: docs.canvaswp.com, 388 articles with screenshots, a page for every block and setting
Support: support.canvaswp.com

Changelog

Version 1.0.0
Initial release.

Credits

Canvas is licensed under the GPL, version 2 or later. It includes these open-source libraries and fonts, each under its own license:

Bootstrap 5.3.8 (MIT), Bootstrap Icons 1.11.0 (MIT)
Font Awesome Free 6.4.2 (icons CC BY 4.0, fonts SIL OFL 1.1, code MIT)
Unicons 4.0.8 by IconScout (IconScout Simple License)
Playfair Display 1.203 (SIL OFL 1.1)
Swiper 12.1.3 and Owl Carousel 2.3.4 (MIT)
Isotope 3.0.6 and Infinite Scroll 3.0.5 by Metafizzy (GPLv3)
Magnific Popup, Chart.js, Prism, DataTables, flatpickr and other MIT-licensed libraries

The full list with versions and licenses is in the theme’s readme.txt.

Canvas WordPress Theme