The Very Best Woocommerce Themes of 2014

Couture ecommerce theme

The Couture theme for WordPress presents an elegant look and fell that would work nicely for a jewelry or fashion store. It’s fully customizable and integrates perfectly with the Woocommerce plugin so you can get selling quickly.

Multishop responsive theme

This theme offers a clean look and feel with options to present the site as a blog, corporate style, or as a shop.

Room09 multipurpose ecommerce theme

This is a classy looking theme that comes with a versatile layout builder that you can use to present a store, a regular site, or a mix of both. It also has some built in features like a wishlist and zoom magnifier along with a product enquiry form.

PrimaShop flat responsive woocommerce theme

I really like PrimaShop because it brings together some modern design styles with versatile layout options and some other premium features.

Circolare mutiuse woocommerce theme

This theme takes a departure from the flat styles that seem to be dominating design lately and favors a 3D look in the navigation area, with an all-around more whimsical design that’s best suited for artsy, fashion, and makeup shops.

Digita woocommerce parallax theme

This theme id aimed at stores selling digital products, electronics, and mobile accessories. The layout is fully responsive and includes the popular parallax scrolling technique along with other great built-in features.

Shopster retina responsive theme for woocommerce

Here’s a very stylish theme that could work for a variety of online shops. It’s highly customizable so you can mix elements from a personal/portfolio site with your store. It includes the popular Revolution and Layer sliders, portfolio layouts and built in social sharing.

Vineyard winery/liquor store theme

I’ve worked in the wine industry for a few years and it’s nice to see some themes being developed specifically for wine shops. This is a brand new theme that was just released. It features the cloud zoom effect, a one page checkout, product reviews and several different pre-defined layouts so you can get set up with a good looking site right away.

Simplegreat premium wordpress woocommerce theme

This is one of the best themes I’ve come across lately. It comes packed with useful features like the visual page builder that lets you create all sorts of layouts which you can save for use later. That comes in handy when you’re creating a landing page, or a special version of the homepage for example. It also has 12 premium plugins bundled, including the Revolution slider and a drag-and-drop frontend builder that makes editing your site a breeze! It’s also built on the Bootstrap framework so you know it’s a reliable, well made code base.

El Grande – Multilayout woocommerce theme

Here’s another very nice theme that was just released at the time I write this. Elgrande features seven layouts right out of the box, and comes with some nice features including 500 Google fonts, lots of icons, and of course it’s responsive and retina ready.

Blaszok multipurpose theme

You won’t find many themes better than this one. It’s built by a great development team that frequently updates it and offers great support to its customers. This is a well documented theme, and even though it’s fairly new, it already racked up 500+ sales on Themeforest so you know there’s something behind its popularity. The demo page shows how it can be used for corporate, restaurant, dance, fashion, and just about any other style website you can think of.

Emona multipurpose woocommerce theme

Emona is a simple yet clean looking theme with 8 color variations and it includes the visual composer tool which makes creating layouts a breeze.

Pets and Vets responsive WooCommerce theme

Here’s a unique theme designed with veternarian and pet stores in mind. Whether you’re looking to sell dog products, cat beds, or a little bit of everything pet related, this is a great choice.

Callisto Woocommerce responsive theme

Callisto is another great looking theme with a fresh design that deviates from some of the usual trends we find in Woocommerce themes. It’s ideal for any ecommerce site that needs a flexible layout, and includes the “quick shop” feature which allows customers to preview products without loading a new page.

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24+ Essential Woocommerce Plugins

1. Email Cart

What it does: You can send any customer a pre-populated invoice that’s ready to checkout. All they need to do is follow the link and they’ll land on the checkout page with the products you put together ready. This is a great way to offer custom quotes and product bundles. Combine it with a robust product inquiry feature, and you can add an effective level of customer service.

2. CRM Manager

Woocommerce Curstomer Relationship Manager – Using a CRM platform brings tons of adantages when it comes to understanding, managing, and catering to your customer base. And while you can certainly integrate Woocommerce with Salesforce or other larger CRM tools, sometimes those solutions are too robust. That’s why I like this lightweight CRM plugin, which offers great features for a low one-time cost. You can segment and filter customers, then send an email message to them easily.

3. Woocommerce Product Search

If you tried the native Woocommerce search feature, you know it’s fairly limited. This enhances the search parameters to include all sorts of extra product information and delivers accurate results.

4. Display Product Multi-Layout



If you want to display your product listings in a column format, or switch it up and have them tiled top to bottom, you can use this plugin to do just that. It helps you adjust the way products display across your site, from the category listings, to the single product page itself.

5. Paypal Pro Gateway



Everyone needs a quick and easy way to get setup with a payment processor on their site, and that usually means setting up a Paypal Pro account. You can use this plugin to easily integrate your Paypal account to your website’s checkout for seamless transactions.

6. Table Rate Shipping



If you offer a lot of different products that ship from multiple places, using a few different carriers, then you know how complicated shipping can be. This plugin is a lifesaver when it comes to constructing a sensible, rule-based shipping setup for your store.

7. Social Coupons

8. UPS Shipping Method



You can integrate a lot of shipping methods into your Woocommerce store, and UPS is one of the obvious popular ones. You can get real time rates, create custom shipping quotes, and more with this handy plugin.

9. Product CSV Import Suite



Importing products isn’t hard when you have only a few, but try adding a few hundred or more and it becomes a serious chore. This plugin lets you easily bulk import products to your store. Woothemes also has a great version that’s worth checking out (although considerably more expensive).

10. Woocommerce Zapier Integration



Zapier is really cool service that acts as a middleman between two applications. Their aim is to automate the web using these “recipes”. For example, you could send new subscriber information to Mailchimp or Zoho CRM when a new order comes in.

11. Coupon Shortcodes

12. Free Gift Plugin

13. Video Product Tab

14. PDF Invoices

15. Woocommerce Ebay Lister

Now you have an easy way to export products to Ebay. With just a few clicks, you can select the products you want to post, and create full ebay listings.

16. Price History/Price Drop Notifications

17. Image Hover Preview



When shoppers are browsing product categories, they can only see small thumbnails of your products. This lightweight plugin lets them hover over those images, and see a larger preview, which helps improve their shopping experience.

18. Custom T-Shirt Designer



Here’s an interesting plugin for Woocommerce that lets users create their own t-shirt designs. But it’s not limited to just t-shirts…you can offer custom iphone case designs, cakes, and other items using the custom design interface that it layers onto your store.

19. Amazon Affiliates Plugin



This powerful plugin gives you everything you need to create a fully functional Amazon affiliate store on your own website. You can import hundreds of products from Amazon to be featured, and allow users to checkout on your own site.

20. Braintree Payment Gateway

21. Automatic Checkout Discounts



Sometimes you want to have an automatic discount applied to every product in your store – for example, on a Cyber Monday sale you may want to offer a 10% storewide discount. This plugin lets you do just that, and automatically applies the discount to the shopper’s cart.

22. Product Enquiry Form

23. Advanced Notifications

When a new order comes into your store, chances are a few people need to be notified. If you’re using a drop-shipper, they need to get a copy of the order, along with anyone else you might need in the loop. The Advanced Notifications plugin lets you set up order notifications based on product categories and other filters, ensuring that everyone gets updated as needed when a new order comes in.

24. Bulk Price Edit



If you want to edit prices in your Woocommerce store, you can either export the products to a CSV, adjust them manually, and then re-upload the products to the site or you can go through one by one and do it from the Admin. Both options are time-consuming, and instead, you can use this plugin to make bulk price edits to multiple products from one screen in your admin.

Do you have any suggestions for Woocommerce plugins that you like to use? Post them in the comments, and I’ll update the list with any good ones.

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