Build a restaurant website with WordPress
From an empty install to a menu, a reservation form and opening hours, starting from the Italian Restaurant demo.
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Guides
WordPress guides from the Canvas team
Long, practical walkthroughs of the jobs people actually do: get a site up, import a design, build a header, open a store, write the words. Every step happens on a screen in your own WordPress admin.
The guides
Start with the job in front of you
Each one is a single job from beginning to end, written in the order you would do it, with the screens you will be looking at.
Block theme or page builder
What changes when the editor WordPress ships replaces a builder plugin, and what a builder still does better.
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Import a WordPress demo website
Site-wide or page only, what actually lands in your database, and the two ways to undo it afterwards.
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Build a header without a plugin
Zones, a logo and navigation, then sticky and transparent behaviour, the phone layout, and the footer to match.
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Start a WooCommerce store
Products, a shop page, a product page, a cart and a checkout, all of it designed with blocks.
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Write website copy with AI
Set the business description once, generate in the field you are editing, and keep the parts only you can write.
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Choose a WordPress theme for a business
What to test before you pay: the demo, the editor, the licence, what happens when it lapses, and the refund.
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Build a real estate website with WordPress
Properties as records, a search that filters them, agents on the listings and enquiry forms, starting from the Real Estate demo.
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Build client websites with WordPress
One licence, several clients: seats, staging, a demo per client, and what a lapsed licence changes at handover.
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WordPress theme or website builder
Hosted builders, page builder plugins and a block theme: who owns the site, what moves with you, and what does not.
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How to use them
Written for the screen in front of you
Each guide names the screen, the setting and the order, so it sits in one tab with WordPress in the other. Release notes and feature lists live elsewhere.
One job per guide
A guide finishes what it starts. It takes you from the first screen to a page you could show somebody, and it says what to skip when the shortcut is fine.
No plugin shopping
Nothing here asks you to install a builder, a header plugin or a form plugin first. Where a plugin is genuinely required, such as WooCommerce for a store, the guide says so.
Kept current
Screens change as Canvas ships updates. When a screen in a guide changes, the guide and its screenshots change with it, and the date at the top moves.
Follow a guide on your own website
Every plan ships the same blocks, the same demo websites and the same builders, so every step in these guides is available on the plan you start with.