Excellent WordPress Ecommerce Templates and Plugins
Using plugins to run your wordpress ecommerce store has never been easier. Along with advanced wordpress ecommerce templates which make your store front look professional there are an abundance of plugins for backend functionality to help organize your stock, secure payments and a host of other stuff.
If you are creating your first ever wordpress ecommerce template or online store, you may want to decide in advance which plugins you will use to run the shopping cart system , so you know where to add code or navigation to make it run smoothly and naturally for your customers. Luckily there are plenty pre designed templates already available which are compatible with most of the popular shopping cart plugins, there are even some premium themes which come with the cart built in.
Let us have a look at some of the most popular ones around, this is a mixture of free wordpress ecommerce bits and premium ones. Please check author sites for pricing, we use no affiliate links so it’s quite fine to go browse from the suggestions in the artice.
eStore WordPress Ecommerce template
Firstly we look at the fantastic eStore theme from “Elegant themes”. A many will tell you Elegant themes are a tried and tested producer of premium themes, they have been around a long while, which shows they must produce good quality templates and offer support. This theme is elegant! A really classy looking ecommerce theme with great areas for imagery on the homepage and neatly laid out product pages with really clickable buttons to make your users buy from you.
StoreFront WordPress Ecommerce Template
From Templatic we have this no nonsense wordpress store template. Really neat, plain and easy to navigate. It comes in various different skin colors for quick design and with the added bonus of having a full shopping cart admin built in with it, so you can start uploading your stock and creating business out of the box.
eCommerce for WordPress from Templatic
As the name implies, ecommerce is simply that. A really nice plain template for ecommerce with a fully featured back end shopping cart system built in for quick and easy setting up of your online store. It comes in 5 different color skins and has plenty white space around products to make them jump out at your users.
eCommerce for WordPress at Templatic
RGB WordPress eCommerce Store
This wordpress theme is just the actual store front but it is fully compatible with the free WP eCommerce plugin (available from WordPress.org/extend). Really nice and bold with great featured slider area for adding popular products and sale items. I do really like how bold the colors are on this one, it really stands out from the crowd, even if it does lack the full shopping cart of some other premium templates.
WP eCommerce Plugin
This is pretty much the industry standard wordpress ecommerce admin/shopping cart plugin. It’s been around a while and is fully supported with bugs being sorted in current versions released. Also there are a whole host of other plugins by various other authors which cover add ons and modifications that can help your store and sales. Comes packed with all the features you would expect from a premium ecommerce shopping cart, but it’s free!
We hope some of these ideas help you in your quest for running your online store with WordPress. As always, comments and other suggestions for future articles are more than welcome. Also check out our previous article on Joomla eCommerce Templates if you need some further inspiration.
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