Finally it’s here. A lusciously beautiful WordPress Theme for an online store, the eStore Theme from Elegant Themes. I wasted no time downloading this Theme. It is simply beautiful and just by looking at it gives me the confidence that sales will boom. I mean, it is so well laid out, attractive and simple to navigate that it makes people just want to buy something.
Before I go any further, preview the eStore Theme first. Come back and tell me you are not attracted by the looks of it. Just the looks itself id not all. The Theme comes with a host of features that lets you start your online business the moment you have your products ready. It is almost god sent for those who are planning to start their first online store.
For me, I have plans to use it for the site that I was planning to sell but to date has got no right offers for the price that I am asking. Might as well keep it for myself now that I have this Theme. It will take lots of configurations though if I were to keep all the existing products. Maybe I will start anew with all new products.
Back to the eStore Theme. The Theme comes in:
Five Unique Color Schemes
eStore comes with five different color variations. If the default color is not your style, then try out the Red, Blue, Green and Silver color schemes.
Automated Thumbnail Resizing
This theme utilizes timthumb to automatically resize your thumbnail images. Because of this, only one thumbnail images is required per post, despite the various thumbnail sizes used in the theme.
Complete Localization
This theme has been localized for easy translation. Using the theme’s MO and PO files, you can quickly translate the design without having to hunt through the theme’s PHP files to change each word.
eCommerce Integration
While the theme does not come with a native shopping cart system, it integrates some of the most popular ecommerce plugins that are already widely used and loved by the WordPress community. These plugins include eShop and Simple PayPal Shopping Cart.
Advertising Management
With eStore you can place 125×125 banner images in your sidebar and 468×60 ads to your post pages with ease. Advertisements are handled from within wp-admin, and can be turned on and off at any time.
Other than these features which lets you have your online store running in the fly, the eStore Themes comes with all the top features included in all Themes downloaded from Elegant Themes stable. All Themes are:
* Opera compatible
* Netscape compatible
* Safari compatible
* WordPress 3.0 compatible
* Five Color Schemes
* Threaded Comments
* Optional Blog-style Structure
* Gravatar ready
* Firefox compatible
* IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible
* Advertisement Ready
* Widget ready sidebars
* Theme Options Page
* Custom thumbnail images
* PSD files
* Valid XHTML + CSS
* Smooth tabless design
I checked this one out, but don’t u think it’s a bit useless for wordpress?
I mean if ppl want to create an online store, they better use something like Oscommerce which is a php script free and with such a wide support and plugins and automated payments, shopping cart u name it.
Nevertheless I backed that theme up as all the others
in case one day I need em. Elegant theme now offers Developer License as well, so for 89.00$
This is awesome for webdesigners who are hired to do a web site say an E-store like here. All you do is install WordPress, get the Theme with ur developer License and you are done:).
Repeat the above and get rich
That’s exactly what it’s meant to be. Easy to use as not everyone is at home with php scripts. You know,I actually bought an eCommerce theme the last time for $47 but found it slacking in features and user friendliness. Dumped it eventually.