If you’re the kind of business that thinks being simple and generic is cool, then you’re not fit to run an WordPress ecommerce store. In 2017, it is not simplicity that will help you stand out, but unique and sophisticated that will. Therefore, you must strive to give your ecommerce store a new coat of paint, or in this case, a brand new theme.
Fortunately, having a website on the world’s most popular platform (WordPress) comes with having the best perks, as in the best ecommerce themes. In this article, I will enlist some of the most trend-worthy WordPress ecommerce themes that will give your competition a run for their money.
Shopkeeper
One of the reasons to love the Shopkeeper theme is that it built for fast loading as well as smooth and easy user navigation. The theme’s readily-available portfolio-grid style allows you to showcase your shop’s best items on your homepage.
Shopkeeper’s drag-and-drop page builder is fully-customizable and extremely simple to use in which you can alter any element of your store’s pages. There are plenty of pre-built design layouts as well as advanced options to help you make your own layouts.
Shopkeeper also allows you to create alluring product galleries with zooming and lightbox functions. You can make your galleries stand out more with YouTube video functionality.
Uncode
Uncode is a powerhouse of an ecommerce theme that has a variety of features that will surely invite jealousy from rival online store owners. The theme is pixel-perfect that is designed to be flexible, rich in visual detail and deliver high performance. In fact, it has a 98% PageSpeed score and a 92% YSlow score.
Uncode has unique concepts that can be imported to your site upon purchase. It has 70+ module variations including carousel, masonry, metro, thumbnail size/ratio, item filtering and a lot of other options. It’s advanced Media Library allows you to embed any kind of media such as YouTube, Vimeo, Spotify and more.
The Content Block lets you create appealing headers, footers and custom archives. Once you get the hang of it, your website will look as stunning as the ones showcased here.
Jevelin
If you want a unique ecommerce theme that is dazzling to the eyes of a random user, then Jevelin is the one you’ve been looking for. It comes with a flexible and fast content editor that allows you to change every one of your web page’s elements and see the changes in real-time.
Jevelin also has 40+ custom-crafted shortcodes that allow you to give your online store more uniqueness that please your visitors in the best way possible. You will have access to plenty of professional website demos from business to agencies and personal portfolios. You will have more flexible and creative control over your site with the Unyson drag-and-drop page builder tool.
Jevelin’s own Slider Revolution plugin features dozens of high-quality slideshow presentations that are included in all of the theme’s demos. If you’re new to the theme or to WordPress, Jevelin’s WordPress tutorials will get you up to speed right away.
Scalia
Scalia is another fantastic WordPress ecommerce multi-concept theme that has all the tools to bestow you an original and user-friendly online store. It is a theme that is ideal for businesses, shops and blogs. You can start your main demo with over a 150 unique multipurpose demos with eye-catching templates and beautiful parallax effects.
The premium features consist of a visual page builder that is built for easy and fast publishing. It also has a five-star superfast support team; customizable mega-menus for better user-experience; is seo-optimized among other features.
Atelier
Upon installation, you will have over 14 high-quality demos from Atelier. The theme has a minimal design that makes it easy to use for on-site visitors. It was built with a clean, semantic HTML code that only loads content upon user interaction.
With built-in filters, users are the ones to decide how they wish to view an online store’s products. The Atelier comes with three product post page variations including full-screen, tabbed and standard. You can make your headers more interesting by using either the Geometric or Falling Circles page header animations.
Flatsome
Flatsome is the one-for-all solution for either a blog site or an ecommerce store. Not only does it have the tools to help you build a gorgeously-built website, but you can also make it fast and responsive to deliver top-notch user-experience and give it a top search engine ranking. In fact, you can create just about anything without knowing how to code.
The Flatsome Studio consists of a barrage of pre-defined, brilliantly designed layouts that can be loaded externally to ensure your theme doesn’t look bloated. The theme’s custom product page builder lets you create your own product page layouts on the fly.
If that’s not enough to whet your appetite, then you will be happy to know that the theme also includes smart image lazy loading, drag & drop image grids, a slider and banner system, unlimited header options and so much more.
BeTheme
BeTheme’s latest version is not only so much lighter than its previous versions, but upon installation, gives you 290+ pre-built websites that are ready to use. With the help of the new containers called Wraps, you can create more advanced but user-friendly content and preview them in real-time.
You can create pages with smooth parallax effects, as well as upload images, text, buttons and videos to further entice your users. The shortcode generator gives you the ability to build pages more quickly and easily. There are also unlimited Google Map styles, colors, sidebars, and so much more that I wish I could fit in this article.
Conclusion
I promised you that I would name the most popular and trending WordPress ecommerce themes and there they all are. I hope these are enough to make you realize that authenticity trumps generic when it comes to online stores. If I failed to list any of your favorite themes in this article, do let me know in the comments below.
