WordPress is the go-to place for someone who wants to create a website quickly and easily. If somebody is looking to create their own e-commerce website then they need to consider a lot of factors while designing it. This takes lots of time and creativity. Themes are the solution for those who don’t want to go through the process of designing and want a hassle-free website development.
Lots and lots of themes are available online to choose from. The design of your website will determine how many customers use your website for shopping. A clean and concise website will attract a lot more customers than a cluttered and clumsy website due to the user-friendly nature.E-commerce store should have a theme that is both impressive and lucrative. This medium attracts customers from so many platforms that it becomes important for the theme and the webpage to perform at its 100% at all times.
Here you will find the top 10 amongst those themes to help you create the perfect e-commerce website.
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1. VW Ecommerce Shop
With over 200 downloads every day in the month of February 2018 and nearly 3000 downloads in March till date. It is certainly one of the most popular theme amongst those who want to get their e-commerce websites up and running.
The theme developers claim that “VW E-commerce Shop theme” will meet all the requirements that you expect your website to fulfil. The theme is built on bootstrap 4. The theme is cross-browser and woo commerce compatible. It has Call to action button, and it is SEO and user-friendly and is compatible with all platforms.
The developers further say that you can use the theme to set up online bookstore, mobile & tablet store, apparel store, fashion store, sport store, handbags store, cosmetics shop, jewellery store and even travel agency, designing firm, construction agency, healthcare firm, digital marketing agency, and, blogging related websites are also possible with this theme.
The theme looks great and the sites made using it are certainly easy to navigate by the customers. The statistics available to the website owner are also great considering that this theme is available free of cost.
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2. North – Responsive WooCommerce Theme
North has been downloaded over 3584 times at the time of writing this article and is one of the highest rated themes at themeforest.net. It is certainly one of the slickest looking themes out there and it has a lot to offer as well.
It is compatible with many web browsers such as IE11, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, Edge and works with WordPress versions 4.8.x and 4.9.x.
The in-house license verification and management ensures that the customers’ websites are always up-to-date. They offer a variety of layouts for different kind of products. The multiple product listing styles with a variety of filters make the browsing experience a lot easier for the end user. It offers a variety of plugins as well as multiple currency, language and typekit integration making it easier to use over multiple platforms.
It is a premium theme and you can purchase the regular license for $59 and you can get them to host and manage the website for $19/month.
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3. Giga Store
Giga store is another one of those amazing free themes that look cool as well. The theme is responsive and it adapts to the screen of the device you are using seamlessly whether it is a laptop, desktop, mobile or a tablet.Giga Store is easy to Customize, Search Engine (SEO) Friendly WordPress Theme made using Twitter Bootstrap 3. Till now it has been downloaded 4,048 times.
The theme looks great and feels great. The end user experience is buttery smooth. The menus are easy to navigate while the pages are informative. It has all the features to attract lots of customers.
The theme offers unlimited homepage colour options, social links,custom background, off canvas menu, left or/and right sidebars with 4 size options, awesome slider, section carousel, testimonials carousel, blog section and much more.
The theme is available for free but the pro version offers things like advanced Wishlist support, compare support, quick view support along with updates every 12 months for a price tag of $49.
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4. Featured Lite
The Featured Lite is specifically designed with corporate/business websites in mind.Theme comes with one click setup which makes it more user friendly and helps in creating professional website. Till now, Featured Lite has been downloaded over 4,763 times.
The theme offers Hero Background Slider which lets you add up to three slides in the free version and up to six in the pro version along with colour overlay and ability to control the speed. The theme lets you select the layout of the menu using Header Layout. The theme also comes with social media integration and features service, testimonial and team widgets. Theme is compatible with WooCommerce, bbPress, Lead form builder, Contactform7 and with many other WP plugin.
The user can access the desired pages and products as they like thanks to the wonderfully designed menu. The pages allow the developer to add relevant information for the customer making the experience pleasurable and smooth.
The theme can be either downloaded for free or the pro version can be purchased for and offers video support in the Hero Background slider as well as Portfolio Section, Skill Section, Instagram Section, Price Section, Brand Section among other things. The pro license costs $51.
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5. Easy Commerce
As the name suggests this theme is extremely responsive as well aesthetically pleasing with its minimal design and simplistic colour theme. It can be used for other purposes apart from the creating e-commerce websites, such as portfolio, blog, news page, creative business, small businesses, restaurants, wedding planners, sport, medical shops, start-ups, corporate businesses, online agencies and firms, portfolios, photo gallery, etc.
With over 16000 downloads it is certainly one of the most popular themes on this list. It has a responsive and fluid layout which is great for the customers to navigate through. The user-friendly nature of this theme is probably the biggest reason for its overwhelming popularity.
It allows smooth integration of WooCommerce plugin and makes it easier for the user to create an efficient and powerful e-commerce website without even the need to type a single line of code.
The theme is available for free and being so elegantly designed it is certain to bring lots of customer for the website developer.
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6. APRIL
April has more than 500 users as of now. Don’t let the numbers fool you as it is an amazing theme if you are looking to create a website related to lifestyle items such as clothes, furniture and jewellery. It is highly customizable and comes with a lot of pre-built features like more than 10 homepages, 8 product pages and 8 shop-pages. Blog layouts, amazing fonts and many widgets are also included in this theme. It helps you to create an attractive looking online store with no coding at all.
It allows layout customizations like banners, galleries and log in accounts. It also has some of the best premium plugins included with it, for free. It is compatible with Contact Form 7 in order to reach the clients. Premium support, regular updates and detailed documentation are also included. It is compatible with WooCommerce 3.2.x, WooCommerce 3.1.x,WooCommerce 3.0.x, Visual Composer 5.1.x, Visual Composer 4.12.x, Bootstrap 3.x and works with WordPress 4.9.x, WordPress 4.8.x, WordPress 4.7.x, and WordPress 4.6.1.
From a customer’s perspective the sites designed with April look gorgeous and are easy to navigate through and use. The panels and layouts are simple yet amazing. It is definitely one of the best themes when it comes to creating a website related to lifestyle products.
The theme is a premium one and costs $60 which assures quality check by Envato, 6 months of support and regular updates. However, there are many web hosting offers that can be used to get this wordpress theme at a cheaper price.
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7. Emporos – Responsive WooCommerce Theme
Emporos is the perfect blend of the best features of the WooCommerce. This allows high-conversion dragging capabilities to this online store theme. It has over 84 sales and supports a wide variety of WooCommerce and WordPress versions as well as all the mainstream web browsers.
It comes with a lot of ready-made layouts for the store and load-optimized UI design elements allows easy customization of the theme by the developer. It is aimed at maximising your sales and the $167 worth of plugins ensure maximum conversion rates possible.
For the users the theme presents a great browsing experience with its catchy visuals and the developer can customise each of the layouts elements without any complexity in order to make the site look even better. Its menus, image sections, products, cart, categories, blocks, store designs and everything else can be scaled as per developers need and give one of the best WooCommerce efficiency on WordPress.
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8. Halena
Halena is created by the India based AgniHD. It is a minimal, modern and feature-rich theme for WordPress based e-commerce platform. It has four different home pages tailor made to meet the demands of different users. Halena’s aim is to provide a seamless shopping experience throughout the end.
It features an elegant parallax supported home screen and comes with WPBakery page builder, an extremely popular page builder. This lets the user create tons of pages without any difficulty. It features 360 view a product, videos of the product, cookie based newsletter popups, support for different devices and Bootstrap 3 support among other features.
Halena provides a great experience to the customers thanks to its simple yet elegant design. It has easily navigable menus. The Ajax Product Filter makes it easy to separate the products you need from the vast variety of available options. The YithWishlist, one of the most awesome way to create a Wishlist is an added bonus for the users.
Halena costs $39 making it one of the most economical feature packed premium theme for creating an e-commerce website on this list.
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9. Customizr
This is one of the most popular free themes out there as it powers over a hundred thousand active sites around the world. It is a simple, fast paced theme engineered to attract lots and lots of customers to the site.
It is practically flawless when it comes to execution which is the main reason for its huge popularity. It is highly customizable as well. A live builder lets you preview the changes before you save the changes, making the website creating experience a lot easier. The home page lets you add thumbnails linking to content, animation effects and has social media icons as well.
It features six layouts, many colour choices, amazing typography and two image slider styles.One of the slider options allow you to overlay compelling call to actions over the images, helping the eCommerce stores to boost their conversion rates. WooCommerce for eCommerce functionality, and bbPress for forum functionality are also present making it a feature packed website.
It is user friendly and attractive and will definitely increase the conversion rates. The free version is all you need to create an amazing website, but for $119 you can get the premium version with lifelong support and updates.
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10. Fruitful
Fruitful is a responsive theme with a clean design and great options. The developer can easily upload logo, backgrounds, edit colours, headers, sliders and lots of other features making it one of the most customizable theme out there. It has over 10000 active users till now.
It works with perfect with BuddyPress, WPML, Contact form 7, WooCommerce till version 3.0 and supports languages like Russian, German, Spanish, French, and Vietnamese as well. It comes with two image sliders, custom background images and colours, different menu styling, more than twenty Google fonts, two layouts, and built-in social media sharing buttons.
The websites made using Fruitful look great and are user-friendly because of its simple yet attractive layout and search options. This results in a high conversion rate and gives a great browsing experience to the customers. This is one of the best free themes out there.
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Conclusion
These were the top 10 themes for creating an e-commerce website using WordPress. Each one of these is a great option when it comes to creating a catchy and highly responsive website for people looking to bring their stores to the web. These will guarantee a satisfying experience both to the sellers as well as their customers. You can explore more such themes and other eCommerce tips on eShopping Journal. The blog has plenty of good reads on the eCommerce industry that will help you manage your shopping website more efficiently.
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