New Canvas Extension – Menu Customizer [Preview Video]

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Nick Burne
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Menu Customizer has just got a major update! Check out Menu Customizer 2 for Canvas.

Menu Customizer screen

We’ve been hard at work over the summer, both taking holidays with the family (sometimes hard work!) and developing new functionality for Canvas.

In the coming months we have major upgrades for Page Customizer and Mobile Menu Manager, but today we want to take time to show you something we’re really excited about – it’s called Menu Customizer.

Until now, you had to be a CSS genius to create stunning menus in Canvas. Imagine if you create ANY menu you wanted in Canvas? Imagine if you could do it REALLY quickly, with zero coding? That’s the task we set ourselves with Menu Customizer.

We could list out all the features (because there are loads) but it really is easier just to watch this video. We’re planning on launching this next week, so please give us your feedback (like you always do) in the comments below.

Comments

47 responses to “New Canvas Extension – Menu Customizer [Preview Video]”

  1. Jill Apolinario Avatar
    Jill Apolinario

    Well done gentlemen! Look forward to the release!

    Appreciate all the work you do to help us designers using Canvas to shine! : )

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    1. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      Thanks Jill!

      Reply
  2. Gabster Avatar
    Gabster

    I’d like to have the ability to customize the location and style of the search bar. My clients are always really picky about this and it would be great to give them a tool to play around with so they can test different placements and looks.

    Reply
  3. Karen Avatar
    Karen

    Looks really awesome. Thanks for creating this!

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  4. ron Avatar
    ron

    Looks great. Was going to buy the sticky header plugin today, but obviously I can do this and a lot more with the new plugin. Is there any chance to use a beta or first release nxt Friday…?

    Reply
  5. Jesica H Avatar
    Jesica H

    Can’t wait for this, been planning a re-do of my site soon and this would be the perfect thing to give me that push!!

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  6. Samantha Avatar
    Samantha

    Looks fantastic!! Exactly the thing that is on my wishlist. Thank you!

    Reply
  7. Matt Avatar
    Matt

    Thanks, looks cool.

    One small request, rather than only having videos could you at least have a text run down.

    I find this with lots of your blogs and products. I don’t want to watch a video I want to read what it can do and how it can do it.

    Thanks and keep up the good work

    Reply
  8. David Bailey Avatar
    David Bailey

    Nice work as always! One thing that would help me is to show how the responsive states affect your plugins. The menus look great, but how do they look on a wide iPad, or smaller screen? I assume they disappear on a phone, but you get the idea. This is more of a general comment for all of your teaser videos. Cheers!

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  9. Darron Avatar
    Darron

    Guys,

    As per email, just wanted to say a big thank you -this will save me hours!

    Reply
    1. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      Cool Darron – glad you think it’s a good one!

      Reply
  10. Steve Avatar
    Steve

    As a web designer and somewhat of a CSS expert, I can tell you this is long overdue and very much welcomed. The Menu Customizer will save me countless hours of customizing Canvas CSS.

    I hope you will offer a multiple license package, since I already know I would like to use it on many of my sites.

    I’m counting the days until it becomes available.

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    1. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      Hey Steve – thanks for that. We’re totally thinking about licences at the moment, so your comment is very timely! Cheers, Nick

      Reply
  11. George Beinhorn Avatar
    George Beinhorn

    Amazing. Can’t tell you how grateful I am, as a design-impaired writer/editor, to be able to do wonderful things in WordPress without tremendous amounts of research and hair-pulling.

    Reply
    1. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      Cool. You’re why we do these plugins George. Thanks!

      Reply
  12. Shawn Avatar
    Shawn

    Looks great! Will you be able to add (and possibly style a bit) the Woocommerce/Canvas drop-down menu cart?

    Reply
    1. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      Hi Shawn, not at the moment, but we’d love to add this – so GREAT feedback. Can I ask what kind of styling and controls you are thinking? Cheers! Nick

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      1. Shawn Avatar
        Shawn

        If you give this plugin the ability add the drop-down cart to the custom menus it would be fantastic. If you could edit colors, size and switch out the cart icon this plugin would be perfect (and woocommerce users).

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        1. Nick Burne Avatar
          Nick Burne

          Hi Shawn, you will be effectively about to swap out the cart icon but removing it in Canvas (as per the standard remove option) and then creating a new look cart icon with Menu Customizer. Understand also though about wanting to edit the colors and size of the cart icon… Will look into that. Thanks for your feedback!

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  13. Bert Avatar
    Bert

    This is great! I’m looking forward to it!

    Reply
    1. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      Thanks Bert!

      Reply
    2. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      Hey Bert – would love to chat to you about your coffee company as I have some business interests in a small coffee start up… Can you get in touch on Twitter @NickPootle?

      Reply
  14. Susanne Andreasen Avatar
    Susanne Andreasen

    Looks great.

    – If there could be a different padding for the call to action bottom ( or the call to action bottom align right and the rest of the menu align left)

    – It would be nice if if could be used for menus in the sidebar too. I lot of my customers want the submenu in the sitebar or a vertical menu.

    Looking forward to it.

    /Susanne

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    1. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      Thanks Susanne. Great feedback. For point 1 – not sure I understand. Can you explain more. 2) Vertical menu is something we are working on for the next version of this. We have considered using the sidebar for a vertical menu, but there may be a better way we are planning on. Do you have an examples of vertical menus you like? Thanks! Nick

      Reply
  15. Shane Avatar
    Shane

    Brilliant, guys/gals! This is one of the main missing elements of Canvas. I used to design with Front Page and then Expression Web before gravitating toward WordPress. Once I learned WP, I have converted most of my client’s sites and my current company’s sites to WordPress. To design WP templates, I used Artisteer. I found it to work ok, but not play well with WooCommerce when I developed an ecommerce site for a client. After some research, I decided to get Canvas, and while I love the flexibility it offers, it was missing a lot of elements to create really unique sites. Your tools have allowed Canvas to blossom.

    This tool really rounds out Canvas as a high-end template tool for WordPress. Thanks, Pootle!

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    1. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      “Your tools have allowed Canvas to blossom.” Loving this Shane! Thanks so much!! Makes us happy. Definitely keep suggesting stuff for us to help you out… 😉

      Reply
  16. Louise Avatar
    Louise

    This just made my day – Thank you looking very much – looking forward to next week!

    Reply
    1. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      Nice one Louise!

      Reply
  17. keith whalen Avatar
    keith whalen

    I could say its great, just what I have been waiting for or even brilliant. But you must be sick of me saying that by now.

    Well done

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    1. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      Haha! Cheers Keith (as always!!)

      Reply
  18. Kevin Slowther Avatar
    Kevin Slowther

    Think they all look brilliant, the best one being the last one “dotify”. Will definitely be buying.
    Would have liked to see one of them displaying sub menu items.

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    1. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      Hi Kevin, just finishing of a video where I create the WooThemes menu… nice sub-menu features…

      Reply
  19. Martin long Avatar
    Martin long

    Love it guys, very nice. Any chance it could be expanded to allow images in the drop downs like this site? http://www.plasmacnc.co.uk/

    Reply
    1. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      Way ahead of you Martin… http://t.co/WBRmNdnMjo (great suggestion!)

      Reply
  20. Jürgen Strauss Avatar
    Jürgen Strauss

    That’s awesome, Nick – almost wants me to convert completely to Canvas from Genesis! I think the “makes Canvas blossom” comment is a fitting one. Can’t wait to get my hands on it.

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    1. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      Cheers Jurgen! Yes – come across to the Canvas side… ; )

      Reply
  21. Jennifer Carello Avatar
    Jennifer Carello

    Yay! Yay! Yay! Send us an email when we can purchase!

    Reply
    1. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      Will do Jennifer. Everyone on our email list will get some kind of offer too!

      Reply
  22. Julie Moose Avatar
    Julie Moose

    Great work looking forward to this being released and available can see this be used in various projects.

    Reply
  23. Matt Mikulla Avatar
    Matt Mikulla

    Looks great.

    One question. How will it handle the WooCommerce Cart Link and/or items total when it is selected to be output in Canvas?

    When output the cart link in separate unordered list floated to the right of the navigation.

    It get’s screwed up when you try to center the primary navigation and the cart link still is floating right.

    Have you guys accommodated the WooCommerce cart link?

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  24. Raf Rizk Avatar
    Raf Rizk

    Jamie, Nick & Rosie:
    Your new Menu Customizer tool is a thrill to watch and wait for . It will surely be a big hit and evolve under your capable hands to a flagship tool that we cal all enjoy.
    Fantastically 🙂

    Raf

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    1. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      Thanks Raf! ; )

      Reply
  25. kyla.brits Avatar
    kyla.brits

    Good day,

    I apologise if this is a ignorant question, I am quite new to Pootlepress. I have purchased the new Menu Customizer and seen the video, yet I do not have the options that the video shows. I am installed and activated and have the Canvas theme with latest Woo framework. Do I need some other extension with this or what?

    Thanks for your help.
    Kyla

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    1. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      Not at all Kyla – please email support@pootlepress.com. Your purchase comes with full email support…

      Reply
      1. kyla.brits Avatar
        kyla.brits

        Thank you very much Nick, I have sent a mail. Appreciate your help.

        Regards
        Kyla
        South Africa

        Reply
  26. keith whalen Avatar
    keith whalen

    Purchased and starting to work with it today. Looks great

    Reply
    1. Nick Burne Avatar
      Nick Burne

      Cool – let us know what you think Keith!

      Reply

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