Todd Sumamno
WordPress theme developers offer WP users an exciting array of themes to play out their entrepreneurial fantasies to the fullest. Every eCommerce store needs to be dressed up in such a way that is pleasing to a visitor. That’s one way to convert leads.
The question, then, is: how do you choose a suitable multipurpose WordPress theme? An eye-popping array of themes is nice to browse through, but it also confuses a prospective store owner. A WordPress website development company can sift through these themes and give you the best options. They can go about the business of choosing and developing that theme for your store.
But don’t you want to know how to make educated choices? It’s always preferable when you have a firm concept of what makes a good theme for an online store. When you do, you can cultivate your own version of one as per your own specifications.
This could create a powerful user experience for your visitors. So we will present to you 10 popular WordPress themes for eCommerce.
These themes have six factors in common:
- One-on-one support: Should these themes encounter any problems, you will get support from developers. All these themes are run by reliable WordPress developers.
- Responsive Design: The website displays are optimized for any type of device from desktop to laptop to smartphones.
- Retina Ready: The pixel density is of the best quality on all devices.
- Contact Form plugins: These are used when users want to get in touch with you.
- Widgets: These are used for improved navigability and compartmentalization.
- SEO: All themes have accommodation for SEO practices using metadata.
Electro
Electro specializes as a reliable eCommerce theme for selling electronic products and tech gadgets, but like Woodmart, can be used for other types of stores as well. It has features that are common to eCommerce platforms like Amazon, Alibaba, etc.
Versatile Integration: The Electro theme integrates smoothly with the WooCommerce core structure, using handy plugins.
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- A drag-and-drop page builder, Visual Composer.
- An eCommerce affiliate plugin, WooCommerce Amazon.
- A Product Filtering plugin, WooCommerce Product Filter.
- A dynamic effect builder, Slider Revolution. Slider Revolution is used to create dynamic content such as animated videos, moving pictures, and sliders without coding. Product filtering is used to make searches easier for users.
Other features include:
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- Supports custom and Google Fonts.
- Right-to-Left (RTL) language support (for Arabic).
- WordPress Multilingual plugin (WPML).
Moderate Customizability: 6 pre-defined header styles, 9 pre-defined colour styles, 5 different home pages, 3 different single product pages, and 5 different product category templates.
- Cost: $59 per year.
Porto
Porto is a responsive theme that is extremely customizable, easy to use, and suitable for every type of business, portfolio, blog, and eCommerce sites. It includes 30 homepage layouts and is optimized to load fast.
Main features include:
- Versatile Integration:
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- Page Builder: Visual Composer
- Dynamic Effect Builder: Slider Revolution
- Language Support: RTL and WPML
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- Highly Customizable: Unlimited colors and layouts, 30+ homepage layouts, 20+ different headers, AJAX product filtering in shop pages and archive pages, and Woocommerce Catalog Mode.
- Lightbox feature: Helps users see related products in pop-ups.
- Easy installation: You can download a demo in one click.
- Cost: $59 per year.
Sienna
Sienna is a minimalist fashion WooCommerce theme. Its spacious layout allows for greater maneuverability, and its elegant typography lends a sense of modern panache to a website. If you’re looking to make an impression on shoppers who terse fonts accompanying vivid pictures against stark backgrounds, Sienna is the theme to use.
- Versatile Integration:
- Page Builder: Visual Composer
- Product Filter: WooCommerce Product Filtering
- Dynamic Effect Builder: Slider Revolution
- Parallax effects background: Creates the illusion of depth on homepages
- Theme-options panel: Allows a great range to modify visual styles
- Cost: $49 per year
WoodMart
WoodMart specializes in furniture eCommerce stores, but its infrastructure is such that it can be used for other types of stores too. When you modify your theme, removing stock wood images, you can handle a very large store online. The capacity of its catalog is huge, and categorization and navigation are up to the mark. One drawback, however, is that there is no free version. Here are some features:
- Versatile Integration:
- Page Builder: WPBakery Page Builder
- Product and shop filtering: AJAX shop filters
- Dynamic Effect Builder: Revolution Slider
- Language Support: RTL and WPML
- Header Builder: special WoodMart drag-and-drop header builder.
- Highly Customizable: The website can be customized in all aspects – fonts, color palettes, product variations, swatches, etc. 35 demo homepage layouts are available.
- Theme Settings Panel: Easy-to-use panel for users who don’t know how to code.
- Cost: $59 per year.
Ordo
Ordo specializes in eCommerce stores for natural cosmetic brands. Should you need to sell more than just cosmetics, however, the theme is flexible enough to allow the framework to sell other products.
- Versatile Integration:
- Page Builder: WPBakery Page Builder
- Product Filtering: AJAX shop filters
- Dynamic Effect Builder: Revolution Slider
- Language Support: RTL and WPML
- Vendors and Market plugin: WC Vendors, WC Marketplace, Dokan Multivendor Marketplace
- 360° viewer: This allows users to view products in 3-D, from all around. This is especially useful when inspecting small products like nail polish, make-up, and skincare products.
- Highly Customizable: Can be customized in several aspects – fonts, color palettes, blog layouts, portfolio layouts, product variations, swatches, etc.
- Page Speed: Has a high page speed, which helps reduce bounce rates.
- Theme Settings Panel: Easy-to-use panel for users who don’t know how to code.
- Cost: $59 per year.
Flatsome
Flatsome is the most prominent theme on ThemeForest, the website where most WordPress themes are sold. It is extremely popular due to its general system, though it is also compatible with WooCommerce plugins. It is a multipurpose theme, which has its own plugins and tools. It is a great choice for those users willing to put in the hard work to learn the intricate settings of the theme. It is not easy to learn.
- Standalone plugins and tools:
- Page Builder: Live Page Builder, which offers 30 content modules
- Product Filtering: Flatsome product filters are vast.
- Language Support: RTL and WPML
- Highly Customizable: 300 premade layouts, built-in slider elements, visual style options, and portfolio custom posts.
- Add to Cart: Options to buy from product category pages too.
- Page Speed: Has a high page speed, which helps reduce bounce rates.
- QuickZoom: Allows users to pan onto products and zoom in.
- Theme Options Panel: Seamless panel for users to manage themes.
- Cost: $59 per year.
Neve
Neve is an easy eCommerce WordPress theme to install and learn, which one of the biggest reasons for its popularity, at 100,000+ downloads. During installation, it will activate all the relevant side-tools based on your choice of design, thus, saving you the hassle of picking and choosing. It is a decent option for those who want a quick and to-the-point undertaking of an online store. Can also be used as a portfolio website.
- Versatile Integration:
- Page Builder: Gutenberg, Elementor, Beaver Builder, and/or Visual Composer
- Language Support: RTL plugins and WPML
- Moderately Customizable: You can customize general aspects – fonts, color palettes, portfolio layouts, product variations, etc.
- Theme Panel: Easy-to-use panel for users who don’t know how to code.
- Cost: Free version available, the pro version is $39 per year.
Shopkeeper
Shopkeeper is another easy-to-use theme with seamless, quick setup and installation. The difference between this theme and Neve is that it has a vaster range of layouts to choose from, for product pages. They are quite detailed and could pass off as landing pages, with video capability.
- Versatile Integration:
- Page Builder: WPBakery, Gutenberg, Elementor, and/or Visual Composer
- Dynamic Effect Builder: Slider Revolution
- Language Support: RTL plugins and WPML
- YouTube Video Support: Product pages have this feature.
- Highly Customizable: Pre-built page layouts, excellent product pages with superior details; Adobe Typekit; Hamburger Navigation; Google fonts; background colors; text colors; header sizes; catalog mode; lightbox; and product swatches.
- Cost: $59 per year.
Divi
Divi is a general, multipurpose theme that is also compatible with WooCommerce. It has its own package of theme and page builders as well as other plugins. Thus, it provides you with everything you need to build your online store. This theme is highly recommended by tech experts and WordPress website development companies, though it is more expensive than others.
- Versatile Integration:
- Page Builder: Divi Page Builder which circumvents the need to learn CSS.
- Highly Customizable: A larger plethora of options on WordPress Customizer, which allows more customization of themes. Divi also has more than 164 layout packs! This is far and away the largest customization afforded by a theme on this list.
- Cost: $89 per year. Lifetime prices are $249.
Astra
Astra is a versatile theme. It is compatible with multiple page builder plugins, unlike Divi. It also has a large range of homepage layouts to choose from. You can import all or part of the demo sites available on Astra. It is also more lightweight than Divi, and encourages faster page loading times. Additionally, it has a free version too, which allows store owners to start small and quickly.
- Versatile Integration:
- Page Builder: Brizy, Beaver Builder, Elementor, Gutenberg. It can even use Divi Page Builder!
- Dynamic Effect Builder: Slider Revolution
- Highly Customizable: A large list of importable demo sites for use. Page-level controls.
- Cost: Free versions available on WordPress.org. $59 per year. Lifetime prices are $249.
The 10 themes here often have overlapping functions, but there are certain specializations that help you make a choice. If you are still unsure, contact a WordPress development company to make sure the theme you choose truly translates into a website you can be proud of.
CyberChimps
Responsive is a great WordPress theme for business websites. It comes with 45+ ready to use templates for various niches. You simply need to import the template and add your content to create a professional website. It is fully customizable and easy to use. This theme has predesigned pages and is fast loading too.
Author Bio: Sheryl Jones
Sheryl is the Sr. Marketing Specialist at Uplers who has a great experience in designing well-defined user journeys across the digital marketing domain. She leverages her digital marketing expertise to help businesses draw significant ROIs.
