It is well known that WordPress is definitely the blogger’s best friend due to its ability to let you create blogs quickly and easily. But now WordPress is way much more than just a great blogging platform.
In this article, you’re going to discover 8 wonderful WordPress themes to sell your products online.
ProductFolio
ProductFolio has been created by Templatic as a theme dedicated to small businesses, entrepreneurs and anyone who has something to sell on the internet.This theme have a very cool look and feel and is easy to customize. A great choice if you want something that works out of the box.
Eproduct
The Eproduct theme has lots of things in common with ProductFolio and I hesitated to feature both of them in this list. But due to the quality of this theme, it would have been unfair not to do it.
Out of the box, Eproduct comes with a 100% customisable home page as well as 3 color schemes. As a bad point, note that creating a new color scheme isn’t easy because the theme heavily relies on images, so if you don’t like the existing schemes (blue, green or yellow), Ebook may not be the ideal theme for you.
Optimize
Optimize is very simple to install and configure, and lets you display your products or service quickly and efficiently. Like most themes from WooThemes, Optimize is very good looking which is very important when you sell something online.
Squeeze Theme
Squeeze Theme isn’t really a WordPress theme : In fact, it is a tool that allow you to create blog or magazines themes of course, but also sales pages so you can display your products to your audience.
Squeeze Theme can be a bit tricky to use at first but it is definitely the most complete tool from this whole list.
Affiliate Theme
Brought to you by UniqueBlogDesign, Affiliate Theme is – you guessed it – a WordPress theme dedicated to those who don’t sell their own product but others’ : Affiliates.
The theme let you control your site options easily, thanks to its awesome control panel.
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Thesis
I’ve already talked much about Thesis on this blog, not only because it is the theme I’m using here on CatsWhoBlog, but because it is definitely awesome.
Thesis is not dedicated to create sales pages but it has a page template called “No sidebar” which will allow you to easily create killer landing pages to sell your products. Thesis is easily customizable : don’t hesitate to check out my article about the top ten Thesis customizations if you need some examples.
Headway
Headway has been released recently and many people are trying to compare it with Thesis to see which one is the best. This is obviously a very hard question to answer, as Thesis has a better community in my opinion, but Headway is easier to modify for non-tech savy people.
Headway is definitely one of the most powerful WordPress themes available. It allows you to create blogs, magazines, but also sales pages, online shops and more.
WPA Storefront
If you want to create an online store, WPA Storefront associated with the free WP-eCommerce plugin is definitely a great option to consider.
WPA Storefront is cheap ($32), its look and feel is great and the theme is very easy to use.
If you’re interested in high quality WordPress themes, make sure you checked out my list of 10 WordPress themes to create your online business.
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It’s a pity the Ebook theme relies so much on images. It does look stunning though and perfect for getting that sales pitch. Btw, you forgot to include a link to that theme. I’d be interested to see it in action
@Liane : Link has been added
Just doing a project using Optimize from Woo Themes at present.
Great options page in admin, pretty easy to modify the code and a great range of features and various color changes for the theme.
Good stuff.
It is funny that I came across this post on Twitter right after I Tweeted “Can Wordpress really be used for ecommerce? How will it stand up? Can it be a shopping cart system replacement?” I am interested to see if I get any responses to my question. Do you think that Wordpress makes a good ecommerce platform?
Awesome list ! I’ll test it for my professional company. Thanks !
@Phil : to my mind, it could be use for small store only.
How do you do the redirects? Is there a WordPress plugin?
@Scott : For the redirects, check out the “Redirection” WordPress plugin
How about ShopperPress? Found out about this one just the other day, didn´t get any response on Twitter though:
http://twitter.com/tongstromberg/status/7450544627
Has anyone here tried it? If so, good/bad? Looks pretty advanced.
Very nice themes. I use Thesis on my blogs and I am very satisfied. But it probably isn’t best suited for a web store.
Great list of wordpress themes for selling online products, I especially love Optimize by Woothemes.
Great themes but I love only Eproduct Theme
Templatic has a new theme out specifically for shopping sites, it’s appropriately called “Store”. It’s very feature rich, looks dazzling and has many customization options. A must add to your list.
They have a nice collection of wp themes over there, at Templatic. And the guy behind it, is very cool and friendly.
Checked out Templatic.com, – it´s apparently PremiumThemes with a new name, and found this eShop theme they just released. Haven´t tried it out yet, but seems they have put some effort in it:
http://templatic.com/ecommerce-themes/eshop
All the themes they have look great, but what scares me off a bit is the fact that this is a “all kinds of purposes premium themes” kind of company. Everything from classifieds to job boards themes are available.
They are just 4 guys right now as far as I could understand from the about us page, so let´s hope they are not spreading too thin too fast but focus on a certain area, because long-term tech support plus upgrading is just as important for someone buying these kinds of themes imo as how the original theme they buy is designed and works.
@Lars Tong Strömberg – I get your concern. Here’s a bit clarification and further intro about our company. When we rebranded as templatic, we had the people mentioned on our about us page. Right now, we are total 7 people on-site and two people working remotely with us. That’s our staff size and we are looking for more of such talented people.
Apart from that, you understood correct. We are trying to build a theme for every niche possible that will help customers build a website easily. I do have professional working experience of total 7 years in this industry and it excites me to provide a solution that will work for almost everyone in that particular niche.
Now, lets break the functionality. We worked for more than 3 full months on building our e-commerce theme platform and also considered other niche where we will be expanding our e-commerce functionality (the owner wish to charge money for something on their site – be it a service, digital or intangible product)
We created store and eshop – both of them looks different but shares the same functionality. Also we have more themes coming up with the same platform.
When we needed to create job board, it was very simple for us. Simply add a module from our platform and let the owners charge money for the posts that users create.
Same goes for Classifieds theme which will have a little bit more functions – but less than our e-commerce platform.
We have real estate theme coming up – again, same.
I hope you get my general idea. We build a solid base first and now we are only using some of those functions in the different niche theme we are building. The trick here is, to enable the site owner do what they want – easily.
I wish I knew about these when I first started my eCommerce website. Maybe they were not available at the time though.
One of these days, I my switch my blog over to Thesis. The one time fee is a little hard to swallow though…
Some great themes to choose from here. I do find that wordpress new releases are full of bugs though which makes me hestitate to use them on money making sites. I suppose most of the bugs I see are in the admin interface but it is not the sort of thing I’d be happy giving to a client as their site CMS.