WooCommerce Dominates WordPress E-Commerce Sites
WooCommerce is the top e-commerce platform in the world. Even more staggering, it accounts for nearly 94% of all WordPress e-commerce websites.
If you’re going to use WooCommerce, one of your most important choices is your theme. As with everything else for your online store, you want only the best.
What Makes a WooCommerce Theme Great?
There is a lot to consider when evaluating a WooCommerce theme:
- Is the theme fully compatible with WooCommerce? It will undoubtedly claim compatibility but you need to read its negative reviews to verify.
- Is it compatible with the key plugins that you intend to use, especially checkout and payment plugins? Again, comb the negative reviews for the theme and also for the plugins.
- Does it support your intended layout? Look and feel is everything in e-commerce. You want a theme that is going to help you achieve your best visual appearance, not force you to accept something less.
- Is it flexible/adaptable? Regardless of how well you design your store at the outset, it will evolve. The best WooCommerce themes help you evolve with it.
- Is it responsive? At least half your traffic is likely to come from mobile devices of varying sizes and shapes. Your WooCommerce store needs to look great on all of them.
- Is it fast? People abandon sites that take longer than two seconds to load, especially on mobile. Being slow will not only kill your sales; it’ll also push you lower in search results because Google doesn’t want to direct people to slow websites.
- Is your WooCommerce theme SEO-friendly? Built-in SEO optimization helps generate more traffic, and more traffic results in more sales.
- Is it set up for social media integration? Social media not only drives traffic to your website; it also provides an important signal to Google that people are paying attention to you.
- Does the theme owner provide high-quality, online support? It had better because you’re going to need it, especially once you start making changes. Again, comb the review comments looking for feedback on support.
These are the main issues that separate the best WooCommerce themes from the rest. Now let’s see who is the best for 2021.
#1 Astra
What’s lightweight, lightning-fast, has over a million active installs, and gets 5 stars in 97.3% of its nearly 5,000 reviews? Astra is one of the best themes in the entire WordPress landscape, let alone for WooCommerce.
Add in 180+ ready-to-import websites, full compatibility with Gutenberg and page-builders like Beaver Builder, Elementor, and Divi, fantastic typography support, and too many other features to list, and you have the #1 overall theme for WooCommerce websites.
#2 OceanWP
If any WooCommerce theme can compete with Astra, it’s OceanWP. With 700,000+ active users, a 5-star rating from 97.5% of nearly 5,000 reviews, and a strong reputation for support, it checks all the key boxes.
Add in 150+ templates and nearly 20 extensions, and you simply can’t go wrong. Want to see what we mean? Check out OceanWP’s Demo/Template gallery. If you want to create one of the best WooCommerce sites on the web, this theme will help you get there.
#3 Blocksy
One of the most customizable themes we've ever seen. Basically, a theme with a built-in page builder but without the extra overhead, leaving it clean and fast despite its impressive flexibility.
Blocksy hasn't quite caught up with Astra or OceanWP in terms of starter sites/templates, as they have just 13 as of October 2021. But boy do they make up for it with their smart, adaptable design. Oh, and their user ratings are pretty good, too, with a 99.8% 5-star rating over 570 reviews.
#4 Storefront
Storefront is one of the easiest WooCommerce themes to use. Created and maintained by WooCommerce developers, it eliminates any concern about WooCommerce compatibility now or in the future.
Need something a little more tailored to your line of business? No problem. At last count, WooCommerce offers 14 premium child themes for 14 different business categories.
#5 Woostify
Although not as popular as the first three themes in our list, Woostify has all the features of a market leader. Fast, lightweight, and responsive, what really stands out about Woostify is its flexibility. It’s fully compatible with numerous page-builders including Elementor, Beaver Builder, Divi, etc., and with a wide range of popular plugins. It also comes with multiple layouts for product page styles, multi-step checkouts and shopping carts, and strong multilingual support.
The Pro version comes with 15+ smart add-ons that resolve numerous, often troublesome issues, including everything you could ever want to do with headers.
For more information, please see our complete review of Woostify.
#6 Neve
Neve takes mobile shopping seriously with its lightweight build, full AMP compatibility, and fully responsive design.
With over 200,000 installs and 5 stars in 91.3% of its reviews, Neve is a proven theme that works well with most popular page builders. With layout options available right in the Customizer, this is one of the easiest themes to adapt to different types of online stores. And if you ever have an update that causes you major headaches, you can roll back to a previous version with one click.
Accessibility and SEO-friendly markup are also baked in. All in all, a rock-solid choice for one of the best WooCommerce themes on the market.
#7 Hestia
Our second Themeisle theme, Hestia, is ideal for professionals and other small businesses, such as restaurants, online agencies, and freelancers.
It features a multipurpose, one-page design, widgetized footer, blog/news page, and a clean look. Combined with a parallax slide, photo gallery, and a travel-map module, it makes for an excellent WooCommerce theme that is responsive, SEO friendly, and provides easy multilingual support.
With more than 100,000 active installs and a 5-star rating in 90% of its reviews, it’s also a proven theme from a reputable company.
#8 Overlay
As we get near the bottom of these “best” lists, we like to track down high-quality software that isn’t as well known.
This brings us to Overlay. With only 3,000+ active installs, it is not going to win a popularity contest with Astra or OceanWP. But with 98% of its reviews getting 5 stars, it’s obviously making its customers very happy.
If you visit those reviews, you will find many comments validating Overlay’s key claims. It is simple, easy to use, and incredibly customizable.
Add to that a clean, beautiful, fully responsive design, fast performance, and superbly organized Customizer options that include helpful explanations and links, and you have the perfect WooCommerce theme for someone building their first e-commerce site.
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