WooThemes for you

A brief overview of WooThemes, Canvas, Woo plugins and WooCommerce (whew!)

Presented by Laura RinaldiPrincipal Catalyst Creations West

WooThemes are premium themes

What is the difference between a premium themes and a free theme

• Support• Features• Upgrades• And of course, one costs money and one does not.

Here is an example of a free theme

Dashboard of Responsive Theme

This is the only place to get free themes

Or this way

There are many choices of paid themes

CyberChimp

iThemes

And then there is Woo Themes

Here is an example of a WooTheme

Each theme has standard features

And more special features

And each theme has cool bits that make it the right choice for your job

So, which WooTheme to choose?

Canvas is the answer

Here is what the backend of Canvas looks like.

More closeups of Dashboard

Examples of sites others have done in Canvas

Another example

Some sites I have built with Canvas

And another Canvas

And a few more

Here are some examples of what you can do out of the box.

Business theme page

Other cool things

More short code

More short code

And quotes and icon links

Things that aren’t intuitive, there are tutorials

And then more in depth

And not just from Woo, but others too

http://www.mayne.net/woothemes-canvas-css-tweaks/

So, because it is so popular lots of resources.

http://www.pootlepress.co.uk/2013/06/65-tips-tricks-and-css-tweaks-for-woothemes-canvas/

Quick look at the features of the dashboard

General Layout

Boxed Layout

Full width layout

And a whole bunch more

Woo Plugins

• WooDojo• WooSlider• WooSidebars• WooCommerce

WooDojo

WooDojo

WooSlider

WooSlider

WooSidebars

WooSidebars

WOO COMMERCEAs much as I can think of to tell you about.

And Woo has expanded into ecommerce

Why should you use WooCommerce?

• Very easy to use• Mostly intuitive• Free extensions• Support from WooThemes• Because you know you really do need to have an

ecommerce site.

What does it look like on the front end?

Or like this

Themes that have been built for WooCommerce

Will canvas work with WooCommerce

• Yes, of course, as long as you have the most recent version of Canvas.

What does it look like on the back end?

What a product looks like

Corresponding live page

Built in features

How much does it cost?

Where is the expense? Extensions

Beware of third party extensions

Taken off site, and to another form of support

Payment gateways

What orders look like

Close up order

Are there other ecommerce plugins out there. Sure there are.

• Shopp• Cart 66• WP Commerce• And the newest one from ithemes