Are you planning to sell goods online?
The WordPress developer community not only makes great e-Commerce plugins available to WordPress users, but there are also many great WordPress web templates that you can choose from to easily set up and run your store online.
In this blog post, we’ll show you where to find some of the most beautiful and professionally-designed web templates for selling products or services online with WordPress.
Finding Beautiful eCommerce Themes For WordPress
When looking for pre-made themes for e-Commerce here are a number of things you should keep in mind:
Template Style
As well as looking for a versatile theme for your online 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 store you have in mind (e.g. clothing accessories, selling electronic products online, garden furniture, etc).
Full e-Commerce Functionality
In many cases, much of the eCommerce functionality in your web store will come from the plugins you select to power your e-Commerce store.
As you will see, however, some e-Commerce templates also have additional options and settings that can improve your site’s e-Commerce capabilities and help you provide a better user experience for your site visitors without requiring additional plugins.
This can include settings that allow you to easily control your site’s overall colour scheme without modifying the underlying template code, toggle theme features on and off, adjust your layout easily, global banner advertising management, optimizing product names, categories and descriptions for search engines, shortcodes and more.
Easy Shopping Cart Setup
Most professional WordPress e-Commerce themes provide easy shopping cart setup with various payment processing merchants and solutions, allowing you to accept different types of payment online (e.g. credit cards, PayPal, Stripe, etc.) and begin processing orders online without experiencing lengthy technical implementation processes or delays.
Responsive Design Layout
A responsive theme allows websites to automatically readjust screen size to display smoothly across different monitor sizes and screen resolutions, as well as across different platforms.
We have written a detailed article about the importance of choosing WordPress themes with responsive design here:
Theme Support
If you plan to sell products or services online, there are many things that can turn into problems with the eCommerce process itself. The last thing you want to have to go through when dealing with problems and irritable or even angry customers is to be using a theme that has serious issues and you can’t get access to the theme developer to get the issue fixed.
For this reason, we strongly recommend that you carefully consider choosing themes that offer support and regular updates when looking for a theme for your web store. Often, you have a better chance of getting updates and support from premium theme developers, than by using a free website template.
With these points in mind, let’s turn our attention now to a number of WordPress themes you can use to set up a web store that will keep customers coming back to buy products from your website:
Free e-Commerce Themes For WordPress
Virtue Free WordPress eCommerce Theme
Virtue Free theme by Kadence Themes is a versatile theme for WordPress. Even though there is a premium of the theme available that offers more 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 version of the theme comes already fully pre-loaded with a ton of great features and is also easy to customize.
Virtue Free theme also features a modern, clean design, is built with the latest web design technologies (html5 and css3) and uses a powerful responsive framework, making it a fully responsive and mobile friendly theme suitable for e-Commerce.
Additionally, Virtue Free theme is fully WooCommerce-ready (see below) and comes with everything you need to design a great-looking store online.
Some of the features of this theme also include:
- Portfolio posts and pages (use these to show your work). The versatile design of the Virtue theme is ideal for any kind of e-Commerce business, web shop, portfolio or personal site.
- An options panel where you can modify settings for your home layout, sliders, custom fonts, and completely customize the design of your site without requiring knowledge of technical stuff like CSS.
- Translation-ready. The Virtue theme comes with built-in language support for Russian, Spanish and Italian and can also be translated into any other language, allowing you to sell products to a worldwide customer base.
Go here for more information: Virtue Free WordPress Theme For e-Commerce
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FabThemes Free e-Commerce Themes For WordPress
Fabthemes provides web users with many elegant and premium quality WordPress themes for free.
Fabthemes are built with an Options panel that lets users change and configure various theme options and settings. Also, they provide unencrypted theme footer files to help reassure you that you will be downloading and using safe theme files on your site.
As well as creating free themes that suit a wide range of applications, Fabthemes provides themes suitable for setting up eCommerce stores.
For more information about their range of e-Commerce free themes like “Cartel“, “eBuy” and “Xenastore“, visit their site: FabThemes eCommerce Themes
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WordPress.org Theme Directory
A great place to look for free themes for eCommerce is the free theme directory at WordPress.org.
You can browse a list of free WP themes for eCommerce in the directory using the following methods:
- Go to WordPress.org/themes and search for keywords like “e-commerce”
- 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 WordPress dashboard and use the WordPress theme search feature in the Appearance > Themes page …
Browse hundreds of free eCommerce themes for WordPress here: WordPress.org WP Themes Directory
Now that you know where to many great free e-Commerce themes for WordPress, let’s take a look at premium WordPress themes for e-Commerce.
Premium WordPress Themes For eCommerce
Below are some of the best places on the net where you can find great professionally-designed web templates to set up a WordPress-based online store, as well as some great WP e-Commerce themes we recommend:
StoreFront – WP eCommerce Themes
Storefront Themes make loads of gorgeous themes for selling products online …
Click Here To View All StoreFront Themes …
StoreFront eCommerce themes provide great technical support and feature responsive design …
The collection of responsive StoreFront eCommerce themes is also very customizable, providing users with a rich content browsing experience …
For more details go here: StoreFront Themes For WordPress
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Elegant WordPress eCommerce Themes
Elegant Themes employs a team of very 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 designed by Elegant Themes are built around paying great attention to detail and come with many powerful features such as shortcodes, page templates and theme options that give users, including complete control over their website, plus great customer support from an experienced and dedicated team …
Click Here To View All Elegant Themes …
Here are just a couple of beautiful WordPress themes for e-Commerce available at Elegant Themes:
eStore WordPress Theme
eStore offers an elegant theme for setting up an online store. This theme is simple to configure and offers integration options with many 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 popular web browsers and providing localized support for easy translation, eStore is available in a range of unique colors …
For more details visit this site: eStore
Boutique
Boutique enables you to integrate your online store with some of the most popular eCommerce plugins available, allowing you to use your preferred system without experiencing conflicts.
To learn more about this theme go here: Boutique eCommerce Theme
Like every other Elegant theme in the Theme collection, both the eStore theme and the Boutique theme shown above come with a feature called “ePanel” that automatically displays inside your WP dashboard as soon as you activate the theme …
The ePanel theme options panel allows you to control your site without editing template code. With ePanel you can toggle features on and off, reconfigure your layout, global banner advertising management, search engine optimization for product descriptions, shortcodes and more.
One of the other benefits of choosing themes from Elegant Themes apart from 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 yearly price.
For more details go here: Elegant Themes For WordPress
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WooThemes WordPress eCommerce Themes
WooThemes are one of the leading providers 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 webstore.
Click Here To View WooCommerce Themes …
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ThemeForest – WP eCommerce Themes
Theme Forest is an online theme marketplace where you can search for loads of professionally designed WordPress store templates and buy quality WP themes starting from as low as just $5.
Below are just some of the many WordPress e-Commerce themes available at Theme Forest …
Simplicity e-Commerce WordPress Theme
Simplicity is a flexible and elegant theme for doing eCommerce with WordPress that offers responsive design, is ready for retina and supports e-Commerce plugins like WooCommerce and JigoShop.
To learn more about this theme visit this site: ThemeForest WordPress Themes – Simplicity
VintageStyle Theme For WP
VintageStyle eCommerce theme is a clean and elegant WordPress e-Commerce theme designed for use in corporate websites and eCommerce ventures. The theme can be used for small to large business setups, and online shopping stores.
Supported with custom templates, widgets, short codes, and many other customization options, this WordPress theme suits a number of different business and e-Commerce projects.
For more details visit this site: VintageStyle Theme For WordPress
SmartShop
SmartShop is a clean and responsive WP e-Commerce theme and shopping cart webstores.
This web template is fully compatible with the WooCommerce System.
To learn more about this theme go here: ThemeForest WP eCommerce Themes – SmartShop
Lathika Theme For WordPress
Lathika is a responsive e-Commerce theme designed specifically to be used with the JigoShop plugin …
JigoShop is a plugin for doing eCommerce with WordPress.
To learn more about JigoShop go here: http://wordpress.org/plugins/jigoshop/
The Lathika theme 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 loads of other features, making it an ideal theme for selling all kinds of digital, physical or virtual products.
For more details about this theme go here: Lathika eCommerce Theme
MeariShop eCommerce Theme
MeariShop is a clean and flexible theme for doing e-Commerce with WordPress that utilizes the functionality of WooCommerce plugins to create a versatile WordPress-powered online shop with unlimited layout options and unlimited skins.
MeariShop is powered by the advanced Hana Panel, which provides tons of options to help you manage and modify any aspect of the theme – this theme is ideal for beginners with no coding knowledge and web developers alike.
For more details about this theme go here: MeariShop
In addition to the themes shown above, you can find hundreds of eCommerce themes for WordPress listed in ThemeForest simply by searching through their WordPress > eCommerce category …
Click Here To Browse More ThemeForest Themes …
As you can see, there is no reason why a WordPress-based webstore shouldn’t give you the same power, functionality and ability to sell products online as more expensive e-Commerce solutions and look amazing too!
We hope the above has inspired you to search for the right eCommerce theme to set up a WordPress-based store online.
To learn more about the differences between free WP themes and premium themes, see this post:
Finding Great Premium And Free Responsive WordPress Web Themes For Your Business
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