Are you planning to sell products or services online?
The WordPress developer community not only makes great e-Commerce plugins available to users, but there are also hundreds of great WordPress themes that you can use to easily set up and run your store online.
In this post, we’ll show you where to find many professionally-designed and beautiful themes for selling your products or services online with WordPress.
Finding The Best eCommerce Web Templates For WordPress
When looking for eCommerce theme-based solutions here are a number of important points you should keep in mind:
Theme Style
As well as finding a versatile theme for your web store, you will want the web template to have a clean layout and be fairly easy to edit and customize, so it can be used for any type of webshop you have in mind (e.g. clothing store, electronics store, specialty items, etc).
Full e-Commerce Functionality
In many cases, much of the e-Commerce functionality in your online shop will come from the plugins you select to power your e-Commerce store.
As you will see, however, a number of e-Commerce templates also have additional options that can enhance your website’s e-Commerce capabilities and help you provide a better user experience for your site visitors without requiring extra plugins.
This can include settings that allow you to control your store’s theme colors without modifying the underlying web code, toggle features on and off, reconfigure your store layout, manage your advertisements, search engine optimization for product categories, shortcodes and more.
Easy Shopping Cart Setup & Integration
Most professional e-Commerce themes provide easy shopping cart setup and integration with various payment processing merchants and solutions, allowing you to accept different types of payment online (e.g. credit cards, PayPal, 2Checkout, etc.) and start taking orders online sooner.
Responsive Theme Layout
A responsive theme allows websites to automatically readjust screen size to display smoothly over different screen sizes and resolutions, as well as different devices (e.g. computers, tablets, mobile phones, etc).
We have written a detailed article about the importance of choosing responsive themes here:
Theme Updates And Support
If you are going to be selling products or services online, there are many things that can and probably will go wrong with the online shopping process itself. The last thing you want to experience when dealing with emails frustrated or even angry customers is to be using a theme that has bugs and you can’t get the theme developer to get the support you need.
For this reason, we strongly encourage you to carefully consider using WP themes that offer support and regular updates when searching for a template for your web shop. Often, you have a better chance of getting support and updates from paid theme developers, than by using a free website template.
With the above points in mind, let’s now turn our attention to a number of templates you can use to set up a web shop that will keep people coming back to buy products from your website:
Free e-Commerce Themes For WordPress
Virtue Free e-Commerce Theme For WordPress
Virtue Free theme by Kadence Themes is extremely versatile. Even though there is a paid of the theme available that offers many additional features like sliders, lightboxes, built-in icons, Google fonts, SEO options, unlimited sidebars, color options, pre-made skins, custom post types and shortcodes, the free option is already loaded with tons of premium options and is also highly customizable.
This theme also features a clean, modern design, is built with the latest design technologies (html5 and css3) and uses a powerful responsive framework, making it a fully responsive and mobile friendly theme.
Additionally, Virtue Free theme is WooCommerce-ready (see below) and comes with all the tools you need to build an awesome store online.
Some of the features of this theme include:
- Portfolio posts and pages (use these to showcase your products). The versatile design of the Virtue theme is ideally-suited for any kind of e-Commerce business site, webstore, portfolio or personal site.
- An options panel where you can set things like your home layout, sliders, custom fonts, and customize the design of your site without requiring technical knowledge.
- Translation-ready. This theme comes with built-in language support for Russian, Italian and Spanish and can also be translated into any other language, allowing you to sell products to a global customer base.
Go here for more information: Virtue Free WordPress e-Commerce Theme
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FabThemes
Fabthemes makes available many elegant and premium quality WordPress themes for eCommerce for free.
Fabthemes are built with an Options panel that lets you adjust and configure a number of theme settings and options. Also, theme footer files are not encrypted to help reassure you that you will be downloading and using safe theme files on your site.
In addition to free themes that suit a range of uses, Fabthemes provides themes suitable for setting up e-Commerce stores.
Go here for more information about their range of eCommerce free themes like “Cartel“, “Viper” and “Zenshop“, go here: FabThemes Free eCommerce Themes For WordPress
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WordPress.org WP eCommerce Themes
A great place to look for free eCommerce themes for WordPress is the free theme repository at WordPress.org.
You can find a list of free eCommerce themes for WordPress in the directory using the following methods:
- Go to WordPress.org/themes and search for keywords like ”ecommerce”
- Type the following URL into your web browser (or just click on this click): https://wordpress.org/themes/search.php?q=e-Commerce
An easier method to find free WordPress themes for eCommerce is to log into your WordPress dashboard and use the WordPress theme search feature in the Appearance > Themes page …
Look for free WordPress themes for e-Commerce here: WordPress.org Theme Directory
Now that you know where to browse loads of great free eCommerce themes for WordPress, let’s take a look at paid e-Commerce themes for WordPress.
Paid e-Commerce Themes For WordPress
Below are some of the best places on the net where you can go to find many excellent and professionally-designed website templates for selling products or services online with WordPress, as well as some great WP eCommerce themes we recommend:
StoreFront WP Themes
Storefront Themes design gorgeous WordPress themes for selling products online …
Click Here To Browse All StoreFront Themes …
StoreFront e-Commerce themes provide great tech support and feature responsive design …
The collection of responsive StoreFront eCommerce themes is also highly customizable, providing users with a rich browsing experience …
For more details go here: StoreFront Themes For WordPress
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Elegant WordPress eCommerce Themes
Elegant Themes creates simple, beautiful and professional premium WordPress themes.
As stated on their website …
Our goal is to create the best WordPress Themes with a pixel-perfect eye for detail and a high standard for aesthetic excellence.
In general, all themes designed by Elegant Themes pay great attention to detail and provide many advanced features such as shortcodes, page templates and theme options that give users, including full control over their website, plus great customer support from an experienced and dedicated support staff …
Click Here To Browse Elegant Themes …
Here are just a few of the beautiful WordPress themes for eCommerce available at Elegant Themes:
eStore
eStore provides an elegant solution for setting up an online store. This theme is very simple to configure and integrates easily with some of the most popular and free eCommerce plugins, like eShop and Simple PayPal Shopping cart, plus additional shopping carts.
In addition to being compatible with all of the main web browsers and providing localized support for easy translation, the eStore theme is available in a range of unique colors …
To learn more about this theme go here: eStore
Boutique eCommerce WP Theme
The Boutique Theme For WordPress has been built to integrate with some of the most popular WordPress eCommerce plugins available, allowing you to use your favorite system without experiencing conflicts.
For more details about this theme go here: Boutique Theme For WordPress
Like every other Elegant theme in the Theme catalog, both the eStore eCommerce theme and the Boutique theme shown above come with a feature called “ePanel” that instantly displays inside your WP dashboard the moment you activate the theme …
The ePanel theme options panel allows you to easily control your site without editing template code. ePanel allows you to toggle features on and off, adjust your store layout at the click of a button, manage your advertisements, optimizing product categories and descriptions for search engines, shortcodes and more.
One of the other great benefits of choosing Elegant Themes apart from all of the beautiful themes they design is that their business model is built around letting you access all of their themes for one low yearly fee.
To view all Elegant themes go here: Elegant – WordPress eCommerce Themes
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WooThemes WooCommerce For WordPress
WooThemes provide dozens of themes for WordPress-based e-Commerce.
WooThemes are especially designed to integrate with the WooCommerce plugin, giving you a complete e-Commerce solution. Over 300,000 websites use WooCommerce themes and plugins to sell products online and there are dozens of beautiful WooThemes WordPress themes you can choose to build your store online.
Click Here To Browse WooCommerce Themes …
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ThemeForest Themes
Theme Forest is an online marketplace where you can access many premium e-Commerce WordPress themes and buy quality WP themes starting from as little as $5.
Below are just some of the many WordPress e-Commerce themes available at Theme Forest …
Simplicity
Simplicity is a flexible and elegant WP e-Commerce theme that offers responsive design, is ready for retina and supports e-Commerce plugins like WooCommerce and JigoShop.
To learn more about this theme go here: Simplicity eCommerce WordPress Theme
VintageStyle e-Commerce Theme
VintageStyle eCommerce theme is a clean and elegant theme for e-Commerce designed for corporate websites and eCommerce ventures. This theme is suitable for small to large business setups, and online shops.
Supported with custom templates, widgets, shortcodes, and customization options, this WP theme suits a number of different business and e-Commerce projects.
To learn more about this theme visit this site: VintageStyle Theme For WordPress
SmartShop
SmartShop is a very clean and responsive e-Commerce web template for WordPress and shopping cart webstores.
This theme is also fully compatible with the WooCommerce System.
To learn more about this theme go here: ThemeForest WordPress Themes – SmartShop
Lathika e-Commerce WordPress Theme
Lathika is a responsive WordPress theme for e-Commerce designed specifically for use with the JigoShop plugin …
JigoShop is plugin for e-Commerce.
For more details about JigoShop go here: http://wordpress.org/plugins/jigoshop/
The Lathika theme also comes equipped with detailed graphical order and stock reporting integrated to WP Admin, built-in shortcodes and ready-made widgets, stock manager, shipping calculator and many other features, making it an ideal theme for selling digital, physical or virtual products.
To learn more about this theme visit this site: Lathika
MeariShop
MeariShop is a clean and flexible theme for doing eCommerce with WordPress that utilizes the functionality of WooCommerce plugins to create a versatile WordPress-driven online store with unlimited layout options and unlimited skins.
MeariShop is powered by the advanced Hana Panel, which provides loads of options to help you manage and change any aspect of the theme – it is well suited for new website owners with no coding knowledge and developers.
To learn more about this theme go here: MeariShop Theme For WordPress
In addition to the themes shown above, you can find hundreds of WordPress eCommerce themes listed on the ThemeForest directory simply by visiting the site and choosing the WordPress > eCommerce category …
Click Here To View All ThemeForest Themes …
As you can see, there is no reason at all why a WordPress-based web store shouldn’t give you the same ability to sell products online as more expensive e-Commerce solutions and look beautiful too!
We hope the above has given you a number of options to sell online with WordPress.
To learn where to find more great responsive WordPress themes see this article:
Where To Look For The Best Free And Paid Responsive WordPress Templates On The Web
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