Site created via Canva

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  hookedonp · Member · Jan 31, 2022 at 9:27 pm

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  I created my website pages through Canva, and have purchased my domain via domain.com, but I still need help getting my website up and running. I need help!

  WP.com: Unknown
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  supernovia · Staff · Feb 1, 2022 at 1:38 am

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  Hi @hookedonp, can you share a link to what you bought at Canva? We can try to help you get pointed in the right direction.

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  hookedonp · Member · Feb 1, 2022 at 4:44 am

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  Hi there,

  Here is the link from Canva, it is only authorized for you to look at what I’ve got, but are unable to make any changes:

  https://www.canva.com/design/DAEyHPQoHk8/K6hBEsKokQJZmJH6lDlEKw/view?utm_content=DAEyHPQoHk8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton

  Thank you and appreciate any help you can provide.

  Jennifer

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  kokkieh · Staff · Feb 1, 2022 at 6:39 am

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  Hi Jennifer,

  Do I understand correctly that you want to use that Canva design as the design for your WordPress website? If so, I’m afraid that’s not a simple matter:

  Canva is a graphic design platform that lets you create designs for use in presentations and such. For our purposes here, all Canva really does is to essentially let you create a mock-up of what you want your site to look like – that’s what the link you shared above is.

  But to have your WordPress site actually look like that, you’d need to create a new WordPress theme, or modify an existing one, to replicate the design you created on Canva. This will need extensive knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript, in other words, you’d need to hire a developer to create such a theme for you.

  In other words, you can’t simply import something you created in Canva into a new WordPress site, as the Canva design is not an actual WordPress theme.

  Alternatively, it looks like you can convert a Canva design into a website hosted directly with them. In that case you won’t be using WordPress, but whatever system Canva uses on their end to host sites. You can find more information in their support documentation here:

  https://www.canva.com/en_gb/help/article/canva-websites?query=website

  Let me know if you have any questions about this.