Farewell canvas

我们做出了一个艰难的决定：从今天开始，我们No longer sell Canvas.

• WordPress is constantly developing. For website builders using new version of WordPress, Canvas is no longer a good choice -we don’t want to recommend a one we think in the future. The theme of you will serve you.
• We will continue to provide support for effective subscriptions and support for life subscriptions within one year from today.
• We have developed a comprehensive plan for all Canvas customers. We are not just giving up the theme, we will take this road with you .

We know that this is a huge change for you, but we believe it will prepare for your website so that you can achieve greater success in the future. Please continue to read to understand more details about how we reach here and how we help advance.

The theme is changing

We launched Canvas in February 2010 — this is one of the first themes we created using Wooframework -it became our most most our most One of the popular themes. Canvas has promoted the development of theme through the concept of innovative theme framework, enabling builders to create some amazing websites. We have seen CANVAS for creating a lovely experience in personal blogs, political websites, providing thousands of products with Woocommerce -integrated products.

WordPress theme world will experience a new round of innovation in the next two years. The rise of the page builder and many multi -functional themes means that more and more people expect the custom tools that WordPress is easy to use. At present, the work of the WordPress core editor and customizer will change our way of building and use the theme, and the Gutenberg plug -in will fundamentally change the creation of themes and content in WordPress.

The canvas are not built to keep up with the change

Although it is too early, we firmly believe that Gu Tengbao is the future. We decided to invest in resources to prepare our products in order to bring youCome to the best experience. Unfortunately, this does not include Canvas.

When I first joined Woothemes in 2009, we just created a new theme framework called \”Wooframework\” and began to build the theme above it. This is one of our biggest advantages and one of our biggest challenges. Canvas benefits from Wooframework, which is created when the customizer does not exist and the theme option becomes popular.

At that time, this was a good solution. However, over time, we continue to add functions to the theme; this increases the complexity of the code and eventually makes it more difficult for Canvas to develop with the transformation of the customizer and the Gutengbao project.

This brought us to Canvas 6.

We built two iterations of Canvas 6; a group of existing Canvas customers who have selected in the Alpha test stage Essence Fortunately, these feedback helped us realize that we built things that customers don’t want . Our intention is to continue working on Canvas and find the best solution for the development direction of Canvas.

Therefore, when we return to the drawing board, we have studied how to keep Canvas consistent with the customizer and smooth theme activation and settings.

In this work, we realize The overall complexity of the theme means that Canvas is far behind the similar theme in the ecosystem.

This includes another flagship theme Storefront, which is built on the theme of Underscores, which can prepare better in the future theme.

Make CANVAS in line with the current WordPress standard and functional compatibility -especially to make it completely compatible with the customizer and the upcoming editor -need to complete the underlying logic of Canvas and the function of the theme function. Essence This will be a completely different experience. We know that our users don’t want this experience.

The themeIt is not the right decision to continue to sell it according to the original. So we made difficult decisions and said goodbye.

We will not publish Canvas code because it will not serve the community

Update

: We updated the language in this section to clarify that Canvas is open source, but we will not open the code. The source code is always provided to CANVAS active users under GPL. Now we no longer sell this theme, we decided not to create a public repo for the source code. This theme can still be ed from your WOOCOMMERCE.com account instrument board.

Wooframework code contains a large number of outdated code (to be compatible with backward). The theme needs to be maintained regularly to maintain the existing code standard.

Due to the problems and lack of customizer support of the theme options, Canvas did not pass the current standard on WordPress.org -this is something we attach great importance to.

No matter what kind of warning we can place in the self -reported file of the repository, someone needs to classify this repository, which will be diversified force.

• Looking for the future, we recommend that users make changes -we serve you at any time

We no longer sell Canvas, but we will not stop supporting and supporting it and Error repair

. We will continue to provide you with the same level of support with your theme subscription.

This means; You can continue to use it The current Canvas support channel.

You can continue to visit all the existing documents of Canvas

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• We will fix the error of the report

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• Before all existing Canvas supports subscription failure, we will maintain Canvas compatible with the latest version of Woocommerce and WordPress

. lifelongThe subscription will end on October 24, 2018, and all other subscriptions will end at its current scheduled date.

• We will help you migrate to the new theme through useful documents (including theme suggestions).
• Please be careful,

You have time to make a decision on the new theme

• . One of the main reasons we do not sell Canvas is that we think that it will not meet your best interests in the future, because we know where WordPress will appear in the future. Canvas does not stop working immediately -it just does not support the next generation of WordPress function.

as a practical step, we believe that Storefront is the best alternative of Canvas, regardless of whether Is it for developers or anyone who builds a website without modifying the theme code.

Developers like CANVAS’s hooks and filters scalability, while Storefront not only has this function, but also has more functions. It was built specifically for this purpose. There are multiple extensions that are similar to Canvas. The most important thing is that it can well support the customizer (now) and Gu Tengbao (future). Your future success We regard you as our community, and we hope to position you and your website as much as possible. Canvas has always been a popular choice for agents and developers. We are proud of this, but it is no longer the best way to ensure your success.

When you figure out the way you change the theme, we will provide support for you at any time. We firmly believe that this is a step towards helping you build a better website and a better experience on the Internet.

If you have any problems or doubts, please contact a happy engineer at any time.