Work-first portfolio
Case studies as a first-class post type with client, discipline, year, and qualitative results — no invented metrics.
Creative Agency
CanvasPress
A bold, portfolio-led WordPress theme for digital and creative agencies — services, capabilities, a work portfolio, a journal, a governed process, and project enquiries. No page builder required.
by StretchWP · 1.0.0 · Updated Jul 2026
Creative AgencyDesign StudioPortfolioBrandingWeb DesignDigital
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Fully populated demo — click through every page in the live preview.
Screenshots
Every template, production-ready.
These are real pages from the live demo — not mockups.
Overview
CanvasPress gives a creative agency a website that reads as confident, expressive, and portfolio-first — a near-black canvas with a vivid coral accent, editorial headlines, and work that leads, with none of the templated-agency clichés. A hybrid Gutenberg theme, not a page-builder starter.
Everything an agency needs is modeled in native WordPress: services, capabilities, studio, journal, and work as first-class content types with shared taxonomies — no ACF, no Elementor, no third-party form plugin.
The work portfolio leads — case studies with client, discipline, year, and qualitative results — supported by a governed process page and a native, validated ‘start a project’ enquiry.
Start-a-project enquiry
A native project enquiry with real validation, an error summary, and a success state, plus a client workspace.
Governed process
Process stages fail closed — a phase only shows standard when it has both a playbook and an owner.
Expressive by design
A vivid coral accent, an abstract canvas hero, and a bold type treatment give the work room to shout.
Self-hosted fonts
Newsreader, Source Sans 3, and IBM Plex Mono served locally — zero Google-CDN calls, GDPR-friendly.
Accessible & translation-ready
WCAG 2.2 AA intent throughout, every string internationalized, escaped output and sanitized input.
What’s included
Everything to launch
- Theme files — installable .zip, ready for any WordPress 6.4+ site
- CanvasPress Core plugin — content types, taxonomies, and the governed process page
- One-click demo content — the full Northlight Studio flagship
- Documentation — setup, menus, content types, Customizer, forms
- Six months support — from the StretchWP team
- One-click install — push straight to your managed StretchWP site
Specifications
Technical details
| Version | 1.0.0 |
|---|---|
| Last update | Jul 2026 |
| Released | Jul 2026 |
| WordPress | 6.4 – 6.8 |
| Requires PHP | 8.1+ |
| Layout | Responsive |
| Page builder | Not required |
| WooCommerce | Ready |
| Documentation | Included |
| License | Single / Extended |
Tags
Creative AgencyDesign StudioPortfolioBrandingWeb DesignDigitalCampaignsWorkBoldEditorialWordPressResponsive
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