{"id":1640,"date":"2022-10-05T13:37:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T13:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2022-10-05T13:37:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T13:37:56","slug":"using-canva-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"Using Canva in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Finally, the untrained, but often dreamt about desire to be a Graphic Designer is being unleashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Canva<\/strong><\/span>, I’m getting a chance to put my creative side to the test without any actual former training. I’m in no way paid to big up Canva<\/span><\/strong>. I came across it when it was mentioned in a job interview, so I thought I’d brush up my skills on it. It’s only been a few weeks now, but I’m finding it super intuitive and quite ‘easy’ to produce stuff. Whether it’s good<\/em> stuff time will tell, but the options are vast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below, in literally 5 minutes, I’ve produced a quite professional looking (in my humble opinion!) cover for Facebook. It uses one of my own photos taken in a wild meadow this Summer…which caused a bit of a hayfever reaction, so lesson learnt there. And another lesson hard learnt is not to take your 6 year old on a bike through a meadow as the wheels get stuck. We live and learn…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But this got me thinking about using Canva<\/span><\/strong> as a web tool. Turns out many others are ahead of me and have already had this thought too. From a brief bit of research I’ve found you can use Canva<\/span><\/strong> within WordPress to build your website. Here’s a link that explains the basics http:\/\/using Canva in WordPress.<\/a> I think this will be my next port of call to have a try. I’m loving the functionality I’ve discovered so far. My only concern is that it’ll be something that costs and I’m on a strictly zero cost budget. As with everything, some of the better options in Canva<\/span><\/strong> are in the pro (pay subscription) option. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I’ll get cracking with step 1 and see if I can find the Canva plug in. And yet again, I’m stuck. I navigated to Plugins, I searched for new ones. I looked for “WordPress Canva Plugin<\/strong>“, but did I find the Plugin? Nope. Looks like more research is needed on this one than my 20 minutes before school pick-up allows. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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