Are you planning to set up an online store?

The WordPress developer community not only makes great e-Commerce plugins available to users, but there are also many great WordPress themes that you can use to easily set up and run your online store.

In this article, we’ll show you where to find some of the most professionally-designed and inexpensive web templates for selling products online with WordPress.

Best WordPress Web Templates For e-Commerce

When searching for e-Commerce themes for WordPress there are a few things you should keep in mind:

Template Style

As well as looking for a beautiful and versatile theme for your web store, you will want your theme to have a clean layout and be fairly easy to edit and customize, so it can be used for any type of shop you have in mind (e.g. clothing store, electronics store, floral design, etc).

e-Commerce Functionality

In many cases, most of the eCommerce functionality in your online shop will come from the WordPress plugins used to power your eCommerce site.

As you will see, however, a number of e-Commerce templates also have additional options that can improve your site’s eCommerce capabilities and help you provide a better customer experience for your site visitors without requiring you to install additional plugins.

This can include the ability to easily control your website’s theme colors without modifying template code, toggle theme features on and off, adjust your store layout at the click of a button, global banner advertising management, search engine optimization for product categories, shortcodes and more.

Easy Cart Setup & Store Checkout Integration

Most professional-quality WordPress e-Commerce themes offer easy cart and store checkout 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 without going through complex technical implementation processes or delays.

Responsive Design Layout

A responsive theme enables a website to automatically reconfigure the layout to display smoothly over different screen sizes and resolutions, as well as across different devices (e.g. computers, tablets, cell phones, etc).

We have written a detailed article about the importance of choosing responsive themes here:

• WordPress Themes Explained

Theme Updates & Support

If you plan to sell products or services online, there are many unexpected things that can stress you out with the e-Commerce process itself. The last thing you want to experience when dealing with emails or phone calls irritable or even angry and abusive customers is to be using a theme that is causing problems and you can’t get a timely reply from the theme developer to provide you with an urgent fix.

For this reason, we strongly recommend that you carefully consider using themes that offer support and regular updates when looking for a theme for your online shop. Often, you have a better chance of getting updates and support from paid theme developers, than by using a free theme.

With the above points in mind, let’s take a look now at a number of WordPress templates you can use to set up an online store that will keep people coming back to buy products from your website:

Free eCommerce Themes For WordPress

Virtue

Virtue Free theme by Kadence Themes is a versatile theme for an online store. Even though there is a paid of the theme available that includes many additional premium 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 loaded with loads of premium options and is also easy to customize.

Virtue Free 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 eCommerce theme.

Additionally, Virtue Free theme is WooCommerce-ready (see below) and comes with everything you need to design a great-looking shop online.

Some of the features of this theme include:

• Portfolio posts and pages (use these to show your products). The versatile design of this theme is ideally-suited for any kind of e-Commerce business site, online store, portfolio or personal site.
• An options panel where you can modify settings for your home layout, sliders, custom fonts, and customize the look of your site without requiring CSS knowledge.
• Translation-enabled. Virtue Free comes with built-in language support for Russian, Italian and Spanish and can also be translated into any other language, allowing you to sell your products to a truly global audience.

For more information about this theme, go here: Virtue

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FabThemes Free eCommerce Themes For WordPress

Fabthemes provides WordPress users with many cool and premium quality WordPress themes for free.

All themes are built with a built-in Options panel that lets users change and configure various theme options and settings. 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 WP themes that work in a range of applications, Fabthemes provides themes suitable for setting up eCommerce stores.

Go here for more information about the FabThemes range of eCommerce free themes like “iShop“, “Viper” and “Zenshop“, visit their site: FabThemes Free e-Commerce Themes For WordPress

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WordPress.org

One of the best places to browse hundreds of free WP themes for eCommerce is the free WordPress theme repository at WordPress.org.

You can find a list of free e-Commerce 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 eCommerce themes for WordPress is to log into your WP dashboard and use the WP theme search feature in the Appearance > Themes page …

Search for free themes for eCommerce here: WordPress.org

Now that you know where to find loads of great free eCommerce themes for WordPress, let’s take a look at paid e-Commerce themes for WordPress.

Paid eCommerce Themes For WordPress

Below are some of the best places on the net where you can find the best professional website templates for selling products or services online with WordPress, as well as some great WP eCommerce themes we recommend:

StoreFront – WP eCommerce Themes

Storefront Themes make loads of gorgeous themes you can use to set up web shops …

Click Here To Browse All StoreFront Themes …

StoreFront themes for eCommerce provide great tech support and feature responsive design …

The entire collection of responsive StoreFront e-Commerce themes is also highly customizable, providing users with a rich content browsing experience …

To view all StoreFront themes go here: StoreFront Themes For WordPress eCommerce

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Elegant Themes

Elegant Themes employs a team of highly talented and professional web designers to create 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 created by Elegant Themes pay great attention to detail and come with loads of advanced features like shortcodes, page templates and theme options that give users, including full control over their sites, plus excellent theme support from an experienced and dedicated support team …

Click Here To View All Elegant Themes …

Here are just a couple of wonderful WordPress themes for e-Commerce available at Elegant Themes:

eStore e-Commerce WordPress Theme

eStore offers an elegant theme for setting up an online store. This theme is very simple to configure and integrates easily with many popular and free eCommerce plugins, such as eShop and Simple PayPal Shopping cart, plus additional shopping carts.

In addition to being compatible with all major web browsers and providing localized support for easy translation, the eStore eCommerce theme comes in a range of unique colours …

To learn more about this theme go here: eStore eCommerce WordPress Theme

Boutique eCommerce WordPress Theme

The Boutique eCommerce Theme allows you to integrate your webstore with some of the most popular WP e-Commerce plugins available, allowing you to use your favorite solutions without experiencing conflicts.

To learn more about this theme visit this site: Boutique eCommerce WordPress Theme

Like every other Elegant theme in the Theme catalog, both eStore and the Boutique theme shown above come with a built-in feature called “ePanel” that instantly displays inside your WP dashboard the moment the theme is activated …

The ePanel theme options panel lets you easily control your site without modifying the underlying template code. ePanel allows you to toggle theme features on and off, adjust your layout easily, global banner advertising management, search engine optimization for product categories, shortcodes and more.

One of the other great benefits of choosing themes from Elegant Themes apart from all of the beautiful themes they design is that their business model is built around giving you complete access to all of their themes for one low annual price.

For more details go here: Elegant WordPress eCommerce Themes

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WooThemes WooCommerce e-Commerce WordPress Themes

WooThemes provide dozens of e-Commerce themes for WordPress.

WooThemes are especially designed to integrate with the WooCommerce plugin, giving WP users a fully functional eCommerce solution. Over 300,000 websites use WooCommerce themes and plugins to sell products online and there are dozens of fantastic WooThemes WordPress themes you can choose to build your store online.

Click Here To Browse WooCommerce Themes …

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ThemeForest Premium eCommerce WordPress Themes

Theme Forest is an online theme marketplace where you can search for loads of premium eCommerce 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 WordPress Theme

Simplicity is an elegant and flexible WP eCommerce theme that offers responsive design, is retina-ready and supports eCommerce plugins like WooCommerce and JigoShop.

To learn more about this theme go here: Simplicity

VintageStyle

VintageStyle eCommerce theme is a clean and elegant theme for eCommerce designed for use in corporate websites and eCommerce ventures. The theme can also be used for small to large business setups, and online shops.

Supported with custom templates, widgets, shortcodes, and many other customization options, this WordPress theme suits a range of different business and e-Commerce projects.

For more details go here: ThemeForest WP Themes – VintageStyle

SmartShop

SmartShop is a clean and responsive eCommerce web template for WordPress and shopping cart stores.

This web template is also fully compatible with the WooCommerce System.

For more details go here: ThemeForest WordPress Themes – SmartShop

Lathika

Lathika is a responsive WP theme for e-Commerce designed specifically to be used with the JigoShop plugin …

JigoShop is a WP plugin for eCommerce.

For more information about JigoShop go here: http://wordpress.org/plugins/jigoshop/

The Lathika theme offers 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 all kinds of digital, physical or virtual products.

To learn more about this theme go here: Lathika

MeariShop

MeariShop is a clean and flexible e-Commerce theme for WordPress that utilizes the functionality of WooCommerce plugins to create a versatile WordPress-driven online shop with unlimited layout options and unlimited skins.

MeariShop is powered by the advanced Hana Panel, which provides tons of options to manage and modify any aspect of the theme – this theme is ideal for both beginners with no coding knowledge and developers.

For more details about this theme visit this site: MeariShop WP Theme

In addition to the themes shown above, you can find hundreds of eCommerce themes for WordPress listed in ThemeForest just by visiting the site and searching through their WordPress > eCommerce category …

Click Here To Browse ThemeForest Themes …

As you can see, there is absolutely no reason why your WordPress-based webstore shouldn’t have the same ability to sell products online as more expensive e-Commerce solutions and look amazing too!

We hope the above has inspired you to consider setting up a WP-based store online.

To learn more about WordPress themes and the “pros” and “cons” of choosing free WP themes vs paid WordPress themes, see this article:

How To Find Great Free And Paid Responsive WordPress Templates On The Net

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